Is Solar Power Heating Up?
Is Solar Power Heating Up?
Solar industry booming in U.S.: report
Solar industry is booming in the United States, with commercial solar customers installing 103 megawatts in the third quarter, a 38 percent boom from the same period in 2009, newly released figures showed.
Copper Piping for a pool?
I’ve noticed there are many ways to use solar power to heat a pool, usually people just have water run through black pvc pipes, but would copper piping heat up the pool better?
Explanation: The pool cycles (cleans) for four hours a day, so the water runs through the system, but if you put pipes where the water is being cycled so it is cycled through the pipes then back to the “system,” the water will be heated because the pipes will be hot.
Any suggestions on if something is better than copper pipe or.. Should there be a black surface under the pipes? Or have the pipes under a box so the heat can’t escape?
Any tips would be very helpful
*P.S. – I am not a plummer and I know nothing about this stuff, so the explanation is not totally correct.
Since your not a plumber, I would recommend a solar cover. It not only warms the water, but also keeps evaporation to a minimum. For it to be effective the water needs to circulate. Depending on the size of the pool, you can purchase a heater for about 4 to 5 hundred dollars and not have a maze of pipes laying all over the yard.
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January 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
how did you get a loan on solar panels?
January 21st, 2008 at 10:33 am
I don’t personally have a loan on them but i’m sure someone could add the price in on their home loan. That way they can get the best interest.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
This is an excellent communication and the presenter needs to be complemented.
The comments about financing are very relevant and I would like someone to do the sums and now show me the numbers on how I can get solar electricity or any kind of renewable energy for nothing or better still how to come out financially in front ?
April 26th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
When 1kWh of energy will cost 1-2 dollars,
alternative energy will become competetive.
1kWh now costs 10 cents, because we use very
cheap source to produce power, as oil for example. Nature spent millions of years to create this material, giving so good energy, when to burn 1 kg of this concentrated and pressed organics of storred energy.
And we do not care that it was need millions of years to create it.
We power our office PCs with a wind, and it is not so easy!
May 15th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
When you combine Solar energy with a ICF home the benefits a staggering. A Zero energy home thats stands up to mother natures fury!
May 28th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
what a waste of money $50K
August 14th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Green energy, What is this a wishfull thinking…When I winn a lottery, then i can realise this (so when there’s somebody who like to invest in Holland you’re welcome)
August 27th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Power save solar could get you a 2 kilowatt system for around $12,000 minus like $6,000 incentives. Buying solar power a year after the video is now economical and a smart investment if you can afford to put up the money for solar!
September 27th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Before you dump $50K into solar panels, you should invest $1.50 and buy a clothesline. Then you will have a solar clothes dryer, which according to the US governmnt is about 7% of your electric bill. I am shocked at the number of global warming believers (which I am not)that I know who come up with every excuse not to give up thier electric clothes dryers. It is the easiestand cheapest way to go solar.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Moron
September 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Easily; First you need to invest in automatic gun and ammunition, then rob the bank! lol
October 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
my question is if someone wanted to get solar installed how do you get the money from the goverment to pay for it?
November 19th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Solar Sphere Panels,used on cars or in space: Energy to move the dishes all day to get the right angle focus on a car, Half the energy is used trying to move all the dishes all the time. Sphere Solar panels on say a truck more aero dynamic for traveling(compared to dish).Nasa space telescopes that have sphere shaped panels because to much energy to move a dish in space. Plus a dish must recharge its battery for dish motion.Battery last 10 years.Sphere solar panels don’t need to move for sun
December 9th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Maybe in 50 years, it will have seemed ridiculous to us that there was a time when every building and house didn’t make it’s own power. A pretty obvious idea, once the technology catches up the the logic.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:31 am
anyone know if those panels hold up during a hail storm?
May 4th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
he said 6 kwh….hmmmm @ $0.1 per kwh = $0.6 for one day or $219 a year…..@ $22,000 that is a 100.45 years before he breaks even. Without government tax credit it is 200 years. Dude sounds like an awesome investment, where do I sign up?!?!?!
August 25th, 2009 at 6:05 am
That is an excellent question – any replies yet ? Excellent question indeed.
August 25th, 2009 at 6:09 am
The problem behind costing such things is the fact that we have to look at “non traditional costs” . Environmental damage from Global warming, cost of loss of forest cover, cost of generation of electricity vis a vis pollution etc. These are never costed and so we look at per unit cost or infrastructure costs. greenfield power generation plant using fossil fuel such as coal and oil fired burners, would cost infinitely more if the capital expense was to be paid off per unit immediately
August 25th, 2009 at 6:11 am
I agree wholeheartedly. And I have to say this, there is NOTHING to be sun dried clothes for the fresh smell and the crisp drying . I live in the tropics and when we were kids it was normal for all the clothes to be hung on lines – the lovely smell of the clothes when they dried in the sun and breeze was amazing . Not to forget that they are healthier because of the Suns UV light killing bacteria .
August 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
The system is a 5.6kW, the system produces about 40 kW per day or 1200 per month, at .13 per kW, he is saving about $156.00 per month
August 28th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
The solar panels will with stand hits from hail stones up to 1″
August 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
This system today can be purchaed for under $40,000.00. With a state rebate of $20.000.00 and a federal tax credit of $12,000.00 that is good until 2016, the net cost of the sytem is $8,000.00.Your ROI is 4.2 years. Not a bad investment.
December 12th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
The government is already too involved in the form of regulations and prohibitions on and against the installation and use of solar power. Rooftops and gardens could be teeming with photo voltaics if the government would simply step aside and allow people to do what they want to do. There is entirely too much government red tape to overcome to make installing these systems a convenient or affordable solution at this time. The government preserves the monopoly of the oil industry.