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1225 Watt Grid Tie Solar Kit. WIND ENERGY MrSolar.com | We know solar panels! Hugh Piggott's home page. What's wrong with this picture? Rooftop wind turbine madness in the UK. (Picture from Paul Gipe's site.) •Wind turbines do work but only when installed properly in an appropriate location. •There is a potential for delivering carbon savings and energy generation from domestic small-scale wind turbines in the UK. Data gathered through the field trial indicates that none of the sites with building mounted turbines had average annual recorded wind speeds of 4m/s or greater, and only a third of free standing pole mounted turbines had average annual recorded wind speeds of 5m/s or greater.

The Ampair perspective Dutch small wind turbine trial suffers low wind speeds HAWTs generally score much better than VAWTs in this test but there are exceptions, notably the Swift (shown right) which seems to me to be a bit of a disaster - a shame considering what nice people they are, and near to my home town of Edinburgh. Rooftop nonsense is alive and well in France. Www.wind-works.org elena energie. Solar Technology for the Home - Home Technology Information - hm. Windgen Power Alternative Energy Website. Solar Electricity Basics. What is Solar Electricity? Photovoltaic (PV) modules make electricity from sunlight, and are marvelously simple, effective, and durable. They sit in the sun and, with no moving parts, can run your appliances, charge your batteries, or make energy for the utility grid.

A PV array is the energy collector—the solar “generator” and does so via the photovoltaic effect. Discovered in 1839 by French physicist Alexandre-Edmund Becquerel, the photovoltaic effect describes the way in which PV cells create electricity from the energy residing in photons of sunlight. When sunlight hits a PV cell, the cell absorbs some of the photons and the photons’ energy is transferred to an electron in the semiconductor material. Most PV cells fall into one of two basic categories: crystalline silicon or thin-film. To use the energy from the array, you may also need other components, such as inverters, charge controllers and batteries, which make up a solar-electric system. You searched for “solar” Despite only being in office for a year, Rep Thomas Massie (R -Ky) is one of the most activist members of Congress. He lives off the grid back in his home State, and defies categorization on the left-right political spectrum.

“My house is solar powered,” he explains. “I tell Republicans, you can hate the subsidies – I hate the subsidies too – but you can’t hate solar panels. These are rocks that make electricity, so they are incapable of receiving your hate.” Representing Kentucky’s 4th district, which runs from the northern tip of the state from Ashland west past Covington, Massie holds a B.A. and an M.A. in engineering rom MIT, founded SensAble Technologies, a computer-modeling company based in Massachusetts, and served as county executive for Lewis County, Kentucky.