It will best serve you if you take notes from each of the DIY solar panel construction videos to remember what the specific solar cells and their placement has to do with the total project. You can get a handle on just what it takes to build a solar panel for use in creating electricity for your home use. More detailed instruction is available in the Earth4Energy DIY virtucal wind turbine and solar system guide.

Video 1 of this series shows you how to get the solar cells ready for your DIY solar panel installation. Remember this is a little time consuming and can appear to be somewhat complex but with the right information your DIY solar panel project can be accomplished easily and smoothly

Get more detailed instructions for building your DIY solar panel system at Earth4Energy Diy vertical wind turbine and solar systems guide.

Video 2 of the DIY solar panel series goes further into the preparation of your solar cells. You have to interconnect these solar cells to make a solar panel of the wattage you desire. Your DIY solar panel project is a real money saver on the cost of a system kit or a full solar power system installation.

Get more detailed instructions for building your DIY solar panel system at Earth4Energy Diy vertical wind turbine and solar system guide.

Video 3 in the DIY solar panel series shows you how to setup your solar cells into a panel system. This is the part that determines how many watts your DIY sonar panel system will have. Remember it has to be small enough and light enough that you can handle the DIY solar panel installation yourself.

Get more detailed instructions for building your DIY solar panel system at Earth4Energy Diy vertical wind turbine and solar system guide.

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When you think of “windmill power” what comes to your mind? Would it happen to be something like the picture on your right? You do know that man has harnessed the FREE power of the wind for thousands of years. It has been used to power the sails on a sailing ship, as a means of pumping water from shallow and deep wells and many more things. The good part is that for now the wind is still free so why aren’t you using it to harness its power for your own benefit?

We use giant coal fired power stations spewing immense quantities of carbon into the atmosphere and nuclear power plants that have the potential to spew who knows what into the atmosphere, to produce electrical energy we use to power or homes. Yet as a society we fail to utilize the FREE sources of energy that are readily available. You can see the folly in this, but we continue to allow big corporations and the politicians that receive big campaign donations from these large corporations, to continue to operate carbon producing coal power plants and potentially devastating nuclear power plants.

Well the big question here is “why not harness the power of the wind to generate power?” The wind has been around since the beginning of time and will, I believe, continue to blow on us until the end of time. That is way more than you or I can say for the non-renewable energy sources, like oil, that we are now consuming worldwide at an alarming rate.

One of the major problem with windmill power “known today as wind power generation” until recently has been the cost of producing and utilizing renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. With the continued rise in cost of fuel oil and gas, renewable energy solutions are becoming a viable alternative. Also as a bonus that will save you money, more research is being done to help reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of renewable energy generators.

What most people don’t realize is that a home wind generator can be produced very inexpensively by anyone that possesses common sense and just a few home handyman skills. So, if you are a person like that you can build a wind generator cheaply and use free wind power to drive it. Look, even a politician should be able to understand the benefit that provides individuals and to society as a whole. Of course I am sure they will have to appoint a committee to determine how our wonderful government can tax you for the use of windmill power.

Now in all seriousness, one single home built wind generator will not allow you to disconnect from the power grid. The thing is this, if you generate part of the power that you use for free, then you are not only helping the environment but you are helping your finances as well. Remember, you can always build more than one wind turbine or maybe if the wind in your area isn’t consistent you can add solar power to you renewable energy system and create all the power you need.

Since you are reading this post I am sure that you, like other environmentally conscious people, worry that during the last 100 years (which is such a very small part of history) we have decided to turn away from renewable energy sources. Our government and the biggest portion f our population has not given much thought for the next 100, 200, 500 years and what the continued use of fossil fuels will do to our planet, yet most of us have literally on our doorstep, a renewable source of energy - lets use it.

Build a wind generator for your own use. Your windmill will not look like the traditional windmill used hundreds of years ago but it will produce way more power. Get your guide to build a wind generator here.

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I was reading a story on News Day about Stuart Cohen of Deer Park and his struggle with getting residential solar power installed on his Rode Island home. From the article after incentives his residential solar power system was going to cost him $38,000 to have installed..

Now that is a lot of money but when you are paying over $500 a month for energy cost it won’t take that long to get it back. The problem was that even though he had A-1 credit the bank said at this time they couldn’t loan him the money..

Now I know that people and especially banks are worried about the economy and what may happen to energy prices after the election. We all know that during the election gas prices go down as well as some of the other energy cost just to increase drastically within a year after the election..

The thing is to not worry about the economy. You should focus your attention on what it is that you want and not on what you are worried about. Mr. Cohen couldn’t get financing for his residential solar power system right now but truth be known in 6 months he will be able to easily get financing for the proposed residential solar power system he wants installed..

Another thing to keep in mind is that you don’t have to take the traditional route for having residential solar power systems installed on your home. You can purchase the units yourself at 20 to 30% less that what you would pay for the same residential solar power system and have a local handyman install them for you saving you a total of up to 50% on the total price of your residential solar power system..

You could also build the residential solar power system yourself and install it yourself and save over 90% on the total cost. There are always options. If Mr. Cohen had followed my first recommendation for installing his residential solar power system he could have had it completed for very little over the incentive package he could get from the government on the renewable energy bill presently in force..

Always look at your options and choose the one that is best for you and your situation. Though the initial out of pocket expense should be considered it may not be the most important factor..

When you look at cost before rebates and the return on investment for residential solar power system, Mr. Cliff Roodes of Long Island thought that his investment of $24,500 wasn’t bad. After getting $7,500 of that back in rebates he was indeed very happy and now after getting a check from the Long Island Power Authority for $6.64 he is even happier..

You see that $6.64 is the overage in electricity produced by his 24 home solar panels after one year of use. That means Mr. Roodes residential solar power system provided 100% of the electricity he used for the year with just a little over for good measure..

That gave Mr. Roode’s a return on investment of well over $2,000 a year. That isn’t bad for a residential solar power system consisting of 24 panels that was installed in 2006. With the increased in efficiency of home solar panels today that would most likely have been a much larger check from the Long Island Power Authority..

The reason I am talking about Mr. Roode’s residential power system is because he was one of dozens of homes and businesses in the area that opened their doors to visitors for the fifth annual National Solar Tour on Long Island. His story and the tour was covered by newsday.com..

The moral of the story is simple. You can have them installed, buy the kits and have them installed, install the kits or build the home solar panels yourself, it doesn’t matter, just pick one of the options your residential solar power system and go with it..

Power rates are going up and as they do the return on investment for the dollar spent today is going up.

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Most people don’t realize just how big the vertical wind turbine business is getting. Of course renewable energy is on everyones mind these days but you are thinking in the terms of “how can I reduce my electrical bill, my gas bill, how these energy cost increases are affecting my pocketbook? That is the way you should think and I applaud you 100%.

Now though let’s get things in perspective. The majority of energy that is going to be produced by vertical wind turbines is going to come from wind farms. That means that as far as cost for electricity is concerned, you are just out of luck. In fact you actually will see the cost continue to rise until it is profitable for producers to create more alternative energy solutions.

If you have did any research at all into alternative energy you already know that the cost of constructing a 1 mega watt vertical wind turbine farm is two or more times the cost of building a traditional fossil fuel supplied 1 mega watt power supply station. In fact most people don’t use alternative energy like that produced by a vertical wind turbine and solar power systems because of the initial investment.

What a lot of people don’t appear to realize is that all this interest in vertical wind turbines has sparked a lot of competition in certain states where research and development are better suited. Colorado is one of those states. New mexico is another.

I actually didn’t understand the amount of interest in the manufacturing side of this new trend in energy production until I read a mile long article from the Colorado Springs Gazette..

Below is a short exert from that article:

At stake for Colorado Springs and other communities: Good-paying jobs in manufacturing and research and development and hundreds of millions of dollars in new investment by an industry that’s barely tapped its growth potential. In today’s high-stakes world of economic development, wind, solar and other renewable energy companies are being aggressively pursued in the same way computer chip makers and other high-tech firms were courted 20 years ago.

And for a community such as Colorado Springs, which has lost thousands of high-tech jobs, the allure of renewable energy has made it one of the Economic Development Corp.’s top three targeted industries, along with biosciences and sports and outdoor fitness.

Yet Colorado Springs wasn’t even in the running for some of the most recent renewable energy splashes, White said.

Last month, Vestas announced it will build a $240 million wind turbine tower manufacturing plant that will bring more than 450 jobs to Pueblo - but Colorado Springs lacks the access to railroads that Pueblo has, White said. It was the same for Vestas’ blade plant in Windsor and its blade and nacelle plants in Brighton. Railroads are critical to transporting the very large, heavy wind-generation products.

What’s more, Pueblo offered Vestas $11.8 million in incentives, plus another $2 million from the state.

New Mexico, meanwhile, offered as much as $130 million in incentives to land what could eventually be a $500 million investment in solar energy manufacturing by German energy company Schott AG that could employ as many as 1,500 people in Albuquerque.

Read the rest of this story at the gazette.com.

Now as you can see form the numbers above you are talking hundreds of million and even billions of dollars being spent just on the manufacturing aspects of vertical wind turbines and solar power systems. With that in mind think of how this sudden increase in interest for renewable energy and the input of such large amounts of money can benefit you.

No I am not talking about investing in stocks or companies though that may be something you could look into. What I am talking about is the fact that as more and more big money is being poured into research then better and more affordable wind and solar power systems will be produced.

Remember how expensive the first computers were back in the fifties. Then in the seventies people with big ideas started investing in producing more and better system until today you can buy a computer that will do so many marvelous things that I can’t start listing them for a few hundred dollars.

Well I don’t think you will be able to buy a 2 kilo watt vertical wind turbine or solar power system for a few hundred dollars in my or your lifetime I do think the will become affordable in the next 20 years or so.

I know you are asking what good that will do me now? Well the answer is none. Not one iota of good will it do you now but it could benefit you now. With just a little know how you could be saving yourself hundreds every year on your electrical bill. The nice part is that you can do it for just a couple hundred dollars which includes the getting the knowledge.

I know, the next question is How?

Simple, build your own vertical wind turbine or solar power system. Get you own step-by-step manuel and get started today. Take a stand against high energy prices. Take a stand against continuously depleting your natural resources and polluting the environment you live in. Click this link: Wind and Solar Power Development Manuel

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The basics of converting the sun’s energy into electricity using solar roof panels may seem complex but it really isn’t. Learning how to build solar roof panel may also seem very complex but it isn’t a difficult task at all. It is something that you can do and something that will save you a ton of money as well.

Now the type of solar roof panels we are talking about here are in the family of Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. This particular type of solar roof panels are capable of converting the sun’s energy into electrical power that you can use to operate the electrical appliances in your home.

The good thing about building your own home solar roof panels and converting the sun’s energy into electrical current is that you are able to save a large portion, if not all the money you are spending on on electricity now. As an added bonus that you will really like, your home solar roof panels are environmental friendly power generators that use totally free, renewable energy that is pollution free and helps protect the earths ozone layer.

Where do you place your Solar Roof Panels?

As you already know your Home Solar Roof Panels require energy from the sun to generate the power that is converted into electricity. With that being said the very best location for your solar roof panel to get the most exposure to the Sun is on the top of your homes roof.

There is occasions where trees block the side of the roof that has the best exposure to the sun. On occasion like this it may be more appropriate to place your solar panel system on an empty piece of of your property that is as close to the structure as possible. A very important point in getting the most out of your solar panels is to have at the correct angle facing directly in the direction of the sun so that they receive the direct rays from the sun.

What is Solar Photovoltaic (PV)?

Now before we get to far along here I want to make sure you have some idea of role Solar photovoltaic (PV) plays in the conversion of the energy of the sun through your home solar roof panels. Solar photovoltaic has an essential role in the operation of your solar roof panels. It is the main element that allows the system to convert the suns energy (sunlight) into electricity. Electrons, which are made of positive and negative polarized energy, are released when the semiconductor material in your solar module come in contact with the sunlight. This is where conversion of solar power becomes electric current.

The type of Solar Power System we are talking about here is the type that is connected directly to your local utility grid. This allows the electrical current that you produce during the day to be used immediately instead of you having to worry about storage of the electricity you generated. This is done by turning you electrical meter in reverse thereby getting credit for the power you delivered into the system.

Watch this short video to learn more about how your solar roof panels work.

How do Solar Roof Panels Benefit Me?

• The first thing would be the Tax Incentives the Government allows for the installation of a solar power system. You will need to check your state to find out if rebates are being offered by governments.
• Next would be the savings or return on investment for converting your home to a solar power.
• Next would be the positive impact you would have on your environment by reducing to some small extent the pollution from the use of fossil fuels.
• And one other thing that I feel you would get great satisfaction from would be to know that you are taking the initiative to help reduce the drain on our natural recourses and create a better world for our children.

How Much will Solar Roof Panels Cost Me?

I honestly don’t know. There are to many variables for me to be able to give you a definite figure. What I do know is that you can build your own solar panels for less that $200. It is easy and fun with this step-by-step manuel. The instruction are clear and easy to follow. Start using free renewable energy today.

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