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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 24, 2011 13:24:30 GMT -5
2,273 kWh per month = 75,000 Watts per day.
So if you have a 200 Watt panel and you get 8 hours of usable sun per day... that equals 1600 Watts per day from each panel, so 75000/1600 = 47 Panels.
At my place where we use around 460 kWh per month that works out to: 15000 watts per day / 1600 Watts = 9 panels.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Mar 24, 2011 14:02:08 GMT -5
I'm in over my head yea?
I'm going to go and plant some potatoes...
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Post by mnjrutherford on Mar 29, 2011 18:07:14 GMT -5
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Post by mnjrutherford on Mar 30, 2011 10:14:11 GMT -5
I pulled all of my filed energy bills last night. Sorted them in to years then calculated an average. I have all the bills for '08 & '09 plus 9 months of '10. I came up with 16kWh per month. Using this calculator: www.wholesalesolar.com/StartHere/GRIDINTERTIED/GRIDINTCalculator.htmlI'll need a system that produces 13,866 watts. That's an awful lot of watts. Got a question, when we start adding panels, can we use panels that are not equal wattage? As example, can we use 200 watt and 300 watt panels within the same system or will that cause the universe to alter it's path? Excuse me, I meant to say that I came up with 1600 kWh per month. Lost a couple zeros there!! |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 30, 2011 12:09:54 GMT -5
Got a question, when we start adding panels, can we use panels that are not equal wattage? As example, can we use 200 watt and 300 watt panels within the same system or will that cause the universe to alter it's path? Mix and match however you like as long as you are connecting the panels in parallel. (And as long as you don't overwhelm the charge controllers or inverters.) |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Mar 30, 2011 19:42:29 GMT -5
Oh do tell? I can mix and match? Well, that is good to know. Except for one thing... my naturally persnickety nature would go nuts thinking that I didn't have perfectly even sets of panels up on the roof. I would toss and turn like a frying egg in the middle of the night thinking insane stuff like "100 watts 350 watts 50 watts 25 watts" yea, insane... ;o)
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 19, 2011 16:27:06 GMT -5
The deed is done! I've purchased a 320w kit and the DIY manual from Solar Sphere for a grand total of a little over $400. Granted, it ain't much, but it is a start. If you don't walk out the house, you can't grow an orchard, right?
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Post by hoosierheightsfarm on Apr 30, 2011 20:55:58 GMT -5
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 1, 2011 7:54:51 GMT -5
Wow. Those pages are awesome. We are going to put up a small above ground pool later this year and I want it to be solar powered. It would really be awesome if the water could be solar heated as well so we could swim year round!
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Post by reubent on May 30, 2011 22:20:36 GMT -5
can i throw another monkey in the pot?
there is a website devoted to all the stuff that's been squashed by the big energy corporate systems. quite a number of interesting inventions, some extremely simple.
Such as, a slightly modified form of an ordinary AC transformer that puts out up to 39 times more power than is going in, just by shorting out the back EMF. The kind of stuff that boggles the mind and disgust's the "pros" until you understand what it's doing, and then it becomes really wonderful stuff.
It's at free-energy-info.co.uk
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 31, 2011 0:02:43 GMT -5
a slightly modified form of an ordinary AC transformer that puts out up to 39 times more power than is going in, just by shorting out the back EMF. The kind of stuff that boggles the mind and disgust's the "pros" until you understand what it's doing, and then it becomes really wonderful stuff. If such a device existed.... The inventors would have unlimited free energy for their households, and factories, and distribution trucks, and Internet server farms. They would be incredibly rich. They could collect unlimited water from the atmosphere and comfortably live anywhere from the coldest antarctic to the hottest desert. With limitless free energy they would be able to manufacture the units as a black box device, and sell a billion copies. No conspiracy, no company, and no government would be able to stop such a device: Especially not in the information age when such supposedly simple techniques are so easily shared with the world and/or reverse engineered. |
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Post by steev on May 31, 2011 17:52:21 GMT -5
Now that's a bucket of cold ( fusion ) water! Nicely thrown, joseph.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 31, 2011 23:40:17 GMT -5
Now that's a bucket of cold ( fusion ) water! Nicely thrown, joseph. I have thought often about what it would mean to be the inventor or owner of an (essentially) free energy device. (I could easily farm the desert if I had unlimited free energy. I could fire my clay soil into brick building materials. I could drive my vegetables anywhere without worry about the cost of gasoline.) I have great hope for the Rossi [can't-call-it-cold-fusion-for-political-reasons] device. If anyone has a chance of pulling off the scenario I described this is the device that I think has demonstrated the most potential so far. If a marketable device is released this year as anticipated, Mr. Rossi and his investors will be billionaires in 5 years. |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 1, 2011 5:28:50 GMT -5
So, free energy is possible, just hasn't been figured out yet?
When I contemplate this particular subject (I avoid doing that because my brain starts to loop ;o) it seems to me that "free energy" should naturally exist. But then what makes me say that is the cycle of water... rain - stream - river - ocean - evaporation - rain
I have a hunch that a big part of the problem is that I fantasize because I don't have a real grasp of the science involved.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jun 1, 2011 9:25:04 GMT -5
So, free energy is possible, just hasn't been figured out yet? We are surrounded by free energy (sunlight, heat, rain, electromagnetic radiation, subatomic particles, matter): The problem is that it is diffuse, and we are in the habit of using huge amounts of highly concentrated energy. What dooms most of these projects is plain old economics... It costs too much to extract the energy and concentrate it. We aught to rethink whether we really need so much concentrated energy to do the job. Many jobs could be done very effectively by taking advantage of these diffuse energy flows: A concentrated energy really isn't needed for many applications: For example using skylights for lighting rather than light bulbs, using sunlight for space and water heating. We have been burning through a huge reserve of oil for a few decades, without any thought to how we would live when it runs out. Due to oils highly concentrated form and low cost we waste energy without thought. We waste the valuable chemicals in oil by burning them rather than using them for their higher purpose which is the chemical components. We design homes and societies that not only don't take advantage of the free energy that surrounds us, but that actively fight against it. For example: rather than use our feces to generate methane gas in every home we pollute our drinking water with them and ship them off to a centralized facility, and then we buy water and methane from centralized companies. Rather than peeing in our gardens, we waste our pee by flushing it down the toilet and then we buy nitrogen or compost from a centralized company. More than enough rain falls on the roofs of most houses to provide plenty of water to the house. And don't even get me started on passive solar heating and cooling of buildings... Just about every building I see fights against these diffuse flows of energy rather than working with them. I think it's worse than that actually. There is conspiracy involved....A conspiracy in which violence is used to prevent people from peeing in their gardens. We are surrounded by a criminal enterprise which shakes down people and threatens violence to force us to connect to a centralized sewer system, and a centralized water system, and to build our houses and transportation so that they fight against nature: so that we have to buy our life from The Company. So now I have come full circle: Here I am claiming that big companies have bought the government which is their tool to prevent us from using the free energy that surrounds us. Anyone want to make salt this week? |
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