Solar 101: How Home Solar Power Works
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Posted in: Appliances & Gadgets, Solar, Tax Credits and Financing, Video
It’s getting more and more affordable to power your home with solar energy. Here’s a simple primer on how solar energy works for your home.
Learn more about solar powering your home:
Tax Credits & Rebates for Solar: Learn about 30% tax credits for installing solar.
Maine Solar House is a blog is written by a family that has eliminated the use of fossil fuels in their home. Now if this doesn’t inspire you to go solar, I don’t know what will: http://www.solarhouse.com/
Solar Home is a retailer of solar panels and has a ton of great information on their website: http://www.solarhome.org
Solar Buzz is for the real super geeks who want to learn everything possible about solar power: www.solarbuzz.com
Find a solar contractor near you: http://www.findsolar.com/
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June 25th, 2009 at 7:07 am
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June 30th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
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June 30th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
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October 9th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
The most efficient PV (solar electric) panels available on the market are not more than 20% efficient, and amorphous panels (the most typical building integrated kind) commonly down around 10% efficient. Inefficiencies in the rest of the balance of the system reduce energy delivered even farther. Whereas solar hot water and other thermal collectors vary from 30 to 98% efficient, with the state of the art evacuated tube collectors with selective surface coatings that collect even outside of the visible light spectrum performing at the top of this range. Whole system efficiencies will vary with the insulation on the balance of the system, but a well-done solar hot water system is typically about twice as efficient at delivering the solar energy to the home than solar electric, so if you wish to see your money come back to you as soon as possible and you use water, you should consider solar hot water before solar electric.