When you want to have a cleaner environment both indoors and outdoors, you should consider switching to more sustainable features. Instead of resorting to the most common house setups, you…
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The ‘simplest’ solar water heater ever, especially suited to those with little space or money. Step One Save empty soft drink 2–3 litre plastic bottles. Step Two Paint the bottles…
The goal of this post is to show how to set up a small solar power generator. While there are a lot of decisions you can make, this particular how…
A solar garden light has a small solar panel fitted onto the lid which charges one or two AA batteries during the day when the sun is out. At night,…
Sustainable living advocates supply power to their homes with solar power exclusively, or they supplement their standard electricity supply with solar power components. When you’re tied to the grid, you…
A solar cell is the fundamental component of all solar power system. A solar panel is composed of many rows of solar cells. The solar cell is the device that…
In an ironic twist of physics, energy from the most powerful source of light in our solar system can be harnessed by the solar panel and used to power…a light.…
Solar power has been around since the eighties, but for decades it laboured under the fossil-fuelled suspicion that it was an ineffectual fairytale liberals whispered about at weekend ashrams. The…
By converting the sun’s rays into electricity, solar panels provide a renewable source of energy for our homes and businesses. Although they are usually installed at roof level, and they…