DIY Solar Power

Using the water’s power is an age-old phenomenon. Over the years it has been employed for irrigation and working a variety of machines, including water-wheels. But today, it is used more importantly as a alternative energy source.

There’s probably no need to tell you of the importance of using renewable energy sources. If people knew a little more about clean, renewable energy sources we’d demand it from our energy suppliers and we could all breathe a little easier. When we don’t pay attention to how our energy is produced, we continue to meet our needs for energy through unhealthy means which harm our environment and our bodies.

The case for implementing homemade energy sources is becoming stronger and stronger by the day. The major reasons homemade energy is so desirable are
1. Significant impact on helping the environment, in the uk alone some 30m tonnes of CO2 emissions could be avoided by implementing homemade energy solutions.
2. Self Sustaining energy such as wind and [...]

The future of our current energy resources is a bleak one. Not only are we chewing up our finite energy sources at a rate of consumption never seen before, we are also faced with rising costs and being at the whim of politically unstable countries. Add to this the likelihood that China and India are [...]

In the United States alone there are some 600 + power plants in operation. The vast majority of these power plants are coal based conventional power plants.
Of recent times we have seen a shift to new energy sources, wind power in the US now accounts for 18,302 MW (mega watts) of energy usage which relates [...]

With the rising cost of fuel and its potential limited availability combined with the increasing damaging environmental impact of their emissions and pollutants on the earth, it is high time we had a re think when it comes to alternative energy.
An increasingly popular way to address these issues is to take up the notion of [...]

Solar power for the home, is an extremely responsible step for the homeowner to take. Forgetting the savings you stand to make from “living off the grid”, solar power is a much needed energy alternative if we are to help the earth recover or at least not spiral deeper into the environmental mess we find [...]

The first alternative energy resource we will take a look at is residential wind power.
By catching the energy generated by the action of wind blowing over and as a result turning turbines an electrical generator in turn converts this action into energy in the form of current which can be stored in batteries or used [...]

Whilst the primary focus of this blog is solar energy, it is certainly not the only alternative energy option out there. So over the next series of articles we will be taking a look into a number of alternative energies and the pros and cons associated with each type.
Just a few of the energy sources [...]

Researchers have proposed that asphalt roads could be used to collect solar energy. Anyone who has walked across a road barefoot on a hot day will now just how much heat the asphalt contains due to the sun blaring down on it.
Novotech Inc, a company based in Acton, are undertaking research which may see our [...]