Solar Power at Home,
Naturally
Welcome to Solar Power at Home.
Here you'll find information on solar energy in the home, cabin or even your boat.
Thinking about a solar system to provide some or all of your electricity? Read On for information on solar as an alternative clean energy source in your home.
Solar panels are becoming more efficient and smaller at the same time and that's great news. Check out these small but mighty panels
Advantages and disadvantages, how it works, getting set up and links to some really cool sun run products, it's all
here!
Click on the headings below for more info on each subject.
Come to this page for the scoop on what's happening in Solar Power at Home, whether it's new discoveries, subsidies or innovative uses. We'll keep you posted.
Visit this page if you're thinking of investing in solar stocks or mutual funds.
The continuing story of Solar Energy's slow and steady rise.
Simple explanations, links to some animations and descriptions.
Check
out the many advantages of using solar energy.
There
are some disadvantages although they minimize every year.
(or how
to save money) Some pain
free suggestions for reducing your energy costs.
Beautify your outdoor living spaces and landscape with solar lights.
Here's the skinny on the cost of
bringing solar energy
to your home.
What's a grid tied system? What do I require for an Independent system? It's all here. Solar power for home use.
Take it anywhere! There are
even roll up units that tenters and backpackers can use.
The further you go into the boonies the more sense solar power makes. During
winter months we live on a sailboat and use solar power extensively. While sipping a cold cocktail and listening to our favourite tunes we toast the silent solar panels that make these things possible in some of the most remote places on the planet.
View our sailing
blog
What about those cloudy days?
Although sun panels collect an optimum amount
of power when the sun shines brightly they still work on cloudy days at a
reduced level.
Sometimes they'll even collect moonshine - er - rather, moonlight during
the full phase but that's very minimal.
Solar powered calculators
and garden lighting have
led the way to an amazing array of products that are run by sun power, well made and are reasonably priced.
Solar panels
All about solar panels
Deep Cycle Batteries
If you're considering an independent system or blackout protection you'll need deep cycle batteries to store the energy.
Inverters
To use Solar Power at Home the energy collected needs to be converted to the kind of energy that a household normally uses (AC). An inverter changes the energy from DC to AC (or 12V to 110)
Guest cottages
There are fewer power needs in most guest houses. Fewer rooms to heat/cool and
light and fewer appliances. Most times your guests come to see you and will
actually spend most of their time with you.... Yeah, scary eh?
Swimming pools
An excellent way to reduce your power bill and grid demands is to heat and filter your swimming pool using solar power.
Perhaps Solar Power at Home is the answer to the age old question, "What can I do about the environment"?
These words were uttered by Theodore Roosevelt more than 100 years ago
We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources and we have just reason to be proud of our growth. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils shall have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields, and obstructing navigation.
The natural resources I have enumerated can be divided into two sharply distinguished classes accordingly as they are or are not capable of renewal.
The minerals do not renew themselves. Therefore in dealing with the coal, the oil, the iron, metals generally, all that we can do is try to see that they are wisely used. The exhaustion is certain to come in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Let's Do Our Part
Solar Power at Home is the wise choice for the future
It gives us more power over our lives at the same time as it powers our homes.
Independence from unstable fuel prices, security in blackouts and environmental sustainability are no small potatoes for utilizing a resource that is available for the collecting.
And that's only the beginning....
