DIY Solar Power

The Impossible,.....it Becomes possible,....when you believe!!!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hydrogen, Propane, Butane, Natural Gas Conversion

Image
I believe there is a comparison between electric, hydrogen fueled cars and the development of the Graphical User Interface for computers. Electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are, at this point in time, like a computer made by Apple. Well designed and engineered with attention to detail and efficiency but, very expensive. Cars with internal combustion engines are like the IBM PC. They are ubiquitous, at least here in the U.S., inexpensive, many, many clones of varying quality. What we are trying to do with the "hydrogen retrofit" is like installing windows on a PC. There is no need to build a hydrogen gas or liquid hydrogen transportation infrastructure, populated areas already have the materials to produce their own hydrogen. Most populated areas have ready access to electricity and water, so all that is needed is a machine like the one in this youtube video: People would plug this machine into an electrical outlet or "mains", then attach ...
Read more

The Eternal September

I have had access to the internet since about 1998, and I have seen tremendous changes take place, not only in the technology and interaction of the internet but in the culture of the internet and the world at large. The internet started as a packet communications project at DARPA starting in the 1950s. The very first people on the internet were the engineers and computer scientists creating the software and technology For the internet. Furthermore, since most of the computers in the 1950s and 1960s were very large, they were few in number and located in universities and research facilities around the U.S. The old internet was used to connect these computers together and allow researchers to communicate. As the internet grew, technology advanced, the physical size of computers diminished, and eventually more and more universities could afford computers and internet access. Eventually, after the introduction of the IBM 5150 individuals gained the opportunity to access the nascent in...
Read more

Energy Storage

As I have noted in my previous posts, a 30,000 square mile array of collectors or solar panels in highly sunlit desert will provide more that enough energy to meet ALL the energy needs of the U.S.. This includes all fossil fuels and all nuclear fuel usage. The problem is that of storage and demand, for the energy needed on a day by day, minute by minute basis is not constant. Furthermore, the amount of sunlight varies daily and the duration of sunlight varies throughout the year. We can minimize or eliminate the first source of variability by using climate engineering over the areas of solar power production, so cloud and light variability will no longer and issue. Given that climate engineering has negative effects for the biosphere, it might be best to restrict it's use ONLY over regions that are to be used for power generation. The second source of variability might be more difficult to address, especially with the technology available to us at this point in time. There ar...
Read more