Renewable Energy At Home

What are engineering challenges to develop solar energy for comfort/home uses? Solar is an old technology now and is fairly developed. Cost is a bit of a barrier but that is coming down quickly. Production scale could also be considered a barrier, as the industry can't yet make enough solar panels to satisfy demand. The [...]

I was just wondering if the question about solar panels at the side of the tracks was ever answered. I drive by one every day going to and from work and was just curious. The solar panels are most often recharging battery back-up systems for any electronic devises near by, such as trackside detectors, signal [...]

As an engineer in the energy field, I dedicate my expertise to promote and develop the renewable energy application in Indonesia. Please work together with me to save our earth for a better future. Tell us all some more about your plan, your expertise (Academic and practical), details as to what, why and extent of [...]

What is the purpose of looking into alternative energy sources? Currently most of the energy that we use has a side effect of pouring CO2 into our atmosphere which is probably contributing to global warming. We would like to find energy that doesn't do this. We can use nuclear energy but that also has waste [...]

I just started losing power in parts of my home. So naturally I go check the breakers, none are triped. The home is 20 yrs old. I have checked to see what exactly is on each breaker. So when power goes off its like I lose it on not one breaker but 4 or more [...]

The left wing is perfectly formed and has all of it's feathers, but the right wing lost it's flight feathers. This is the second time this happened to my bird. It hasn't happened since last year. I don't remember which wing she lost feathers on last time. I thought it was the French molt last [...]

The more, the better. The arguments should be at least remotely feasible. I'm looking for ecological arguments why Solar Energy is a better alternative than Nuclear Reactors. Just list as many as you can come up with. Its all about the "after life" of the energy source. With solar panels there is some carbon and [...]

We live in a very high sun area, and I'm thinking solar panels could do nothing but good. How hard is it to implement this, and does anyone have any links to good info? I work on a lot homes and I've never seen one that worked more than 2 or 3 years. most of [...]

What are the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy in to climate change? Whatare the contributions of renewable energy to climate change? It is a political term to describe power sources that don't emit much CO2 but which can't actually provide the power our civilisation needs (so far no country has managed to get much [...]

I am an anti-nuke campaigner from way back so don't even bother guessing what side of the fence I sit on… nuclear energy is an amazing but unfortunate waste of time I think we should steer well clear of. Any opinions out there on this?? What would be a better alternative energy source? It's tempting, [...]