Homemade Solar Power
Homemade Solar Power – Living Off the Grid
Author: Jon Elsdon
Just imagine it, coming home after work, putting your feet up on the couch, television on, stereo blaring and all the lights on in the house… now imagine you don’t feel any guilt about the impact your having on the environment or the pain in your wallet doesn’t exist. Welcome to living off the grid.
More and more householders are moving to homemade solar power in their attempts to be independent from the power grid and save a heap of money at the same time.
I guess some of you may be asking, isn’t all that energy consumption irresponsible? well it would be if we weren’t using homemade solar power to supply our appliances. Solar energy is an extremely clean form of energy, no pollutants or emissions to worry about here, whilst the sun hangs up there in the sky solar energy is a renewable energy, best of all solar is free once you have your system installed and running.
So whats the catch I hear you cry? well currently purchasing a traditional solar power system and having it installed is ridiculously expensive. Enter the new wave of DIY solar power kits. All over the internet you can find guides which show you how to build your own diy solar power kit and produce your own free homemade solar power.
Whether you are looking to totally convert to solar energy of compliment your existing supply, the bliss that is living off the grid and the satisfaction of giving it to the man! is now within reach, no longer will your power be regulated by government bodies, you will be free to use as much as you want.
These Homemade Solar Power guides are amazing in the fact they are so simple to follow. You will have your diy solar power kit assembled and up and running in no time. You get an ebook and videos to follow along in a step by step process. It even shows you how to sell excess energy back to the power grid!
So do you and your family a favor and stick it to the man! read more about Homemade Solar Power – Living off the Grid
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Jon Elsdon is a Solar Energy – Homemade Solar Power Consultant and Environmentalist. Jon is editor of DIY Solar Power.
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Jon Elsdon is a Solar Energy Consultant and Environmentalist. Jon is editor of http://www.solarpowerdiy.info to read more about solar energy solutions [Click Here]
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-1
Don’t use aluminum foil, that’s too translucent. You can collect flat mirrors from a junkyard or use a ton of old polished CD’s or both. Basically here’s what you do:
You get an orange-brown gardening pot that’s about 1 foot tall and place it upside down in the middle of your box. Next, you take a box cutter and strip down the 4 corners of your box so that you have roughly a cross shaped structure with your pot in the middle. Next you take all your flat mirrors and cd’s and glue the reflective pieces onto the 4 wings of your cross so that every square inch of it is covered and mirrorized. Cut pieces if you have to. Just remember that you want no box to show on the upside of your wings. Basically, you have 4 solar energy panes that will be used to focus the light right above your pot onto one spot. Since your wings are flat, you aren’t done yet. You can collimate the beam so it is MUCH more powerful. This is how THAT’s done:
take one of your wings and draw a square on the inside with a sharpie marker so that it is centered. Don’t make the square too small but about like 1.6foot by 1.6 foot. Next draw lines from the corners of this square to the corners of your wing. These lines are where you’ll be cutting using a heated knife and a box cutter on the opposite side. So do that and you get 4 foldable trapezoid sections you can curl inwards. Next drill holes with a drill in the edges of these trapezoids where you’ll insert any kind of string or wire to hold the trapezoids folded inwards in place so you have a curved reflective dish.
Repeat this entire process for the other 3 wings. Next, you get 4 plastic gardening pots to prop your wings up into focus and place them under the wings so that the solar heat ray is focused into one spot directly above the orange pot.
There! Now you’ve made the most awesome mad scientist invention from The Mad Scientist himself. Have fun cooking thanksgiving turkey on it and don’t use it to fry your friends! =D
-Chris
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-2
hot water.
many years ago i was travelling the backroads in hawaii.
one day we found an old, seemingly abondoned camp ground.
but it still had a working shower.
the water tank was on the roof, and the water temp was really nice.
and free.
now, i’d not be putting a 500 gallon tank on the top of you, or my, house.
that is, not unless i was intent on creating an elevator shaft for future construction.
on the other hand, there are many systems for providing solar hot water.
and you can take a long shower, and not watch money flowing down the drain.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-3
Are your PV panels going to be placed on the car, or will you have them attached to a building and plug in? Either way, you will need an either DC battery banks or AC batteries and an inverter. Is the engine already built and set to run on electricity? And how light is this sucker?
This sounds like an interesting project, but the question is too general to answer correctly.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-4
Sorry you cannot, its simply too hard, you’d need a manufacturing company at your disposal. If your looking to use solar power, what you can do is set up a mirror cone to concentrate the sun’s rays unto a pot of water. Then run the steam through a generator to produce electricity. You’ll probably be able to power a hobby light.
February 13, 2007
6:44 pm #comment-5
How to make a small, homemade, solar-powered car????
It’s a small prototype…
May 2, 2008
12:51 pm #comment-6
can you give me homemade ways to use solar power without solar cells please?
November 30, 2008
10:10 am #comment-7
How to make a homemade solar powered oven?
The oven must be made from a card board box of no larger than three feet by three feet by three feet. The reflective surface must be from reflective metalized surfaces such as aluminum foil.
April 15, 2009
4:15 pm #comment-8
How do you make a homemade Solar powered toy car out of aluminum foil?
This assignment is for science class and by making this vehicle i can not push the vehicle.
This is an 8th grade project
please help
December 9, 2009
10:31 pm #comment-9
HoW do you make a homemade solar panel?
So I’m in seventh grade and for the science fair want to make a homemade simple solar panel that could probaly power a light bulb or something. Can any one help me on how to make One and what matirials I need