Renewable Energy At Home

What is the amount of solar energy required to drive a 250 pound cart with a 250 pound person 10 miles? How many square feet of recharged paneling would be required? If you are willing to go slowly enough, all you need from the solar panel is enough to overcome static friction to get the [...]

3 Examples of how solar energy is used. Solar energy is used as follows: It heats and lights the earth, without it we would all die on a very cold rock with no plant life. Photo voltaic cells can collect solar energy and produce an electric current. Solar collectors, usually roof mounted, are used domestically [...]

How solar energy can be produced at competitive cost for the welfare of people at large?Presently what is the status of its use in india? Use materials from space (moon or asteroids) to build solar generating plants in Geostationary orbit and beam the power down to a rectena using microwaves. We lack the space infrastructure [...]

How expensive is solar energy to produce? What does a solar energy power plant look like and how do they work? What are the hidden costs to society and the world? ( pollution, etc) You do not produce solar energy; it is free from the sun. However it can be converted to electricity using solar [...]

Dear All, How can I calculate how much energy converted from Solar Energy to Electricity? Does it based on the how strong of the sunlight? Does it based on how many solar cell? Any detail equations for this purpose? Thanks a lot. Taken from wiki: "At solar noon on a clear March or September equinox [...]

Please help w/ these questions..And provide Sources/References ! – Type of energy transformations that take place in harnessing the solar energy. – efficiency of the (solar) energy transformations – The amount of energy obtained from solar energy? Thank you ! Solar panels. This is the site which can provide you all information you are looking [...]

Ok so here’s the thing, I want to make my own solar energy. I’m not saying huge amounts that can power my house, I just want enough that I could, I don’t know charge a battery. I also would like to learn how to make solar energy for things like flashlights I make myself. I [...]

Besides thermal and electrical energy, what can solar energy be converted into? Please post your reference if you have one. Energy from the sun comes in the form of heat and light. Plants convert light into biological energy through photosynthesis. Photovoltaic cells and panels convert light to electric current. Heat from the sun can also [...]

If the paint could collect solar energy to charge a battery, and then once the car starts moving, other fibers in the paint could convert the wind passing over the car to electrical energy, wouldn’t this be a way to decrease our dependency on fossil fuels. Is there any technology out there that can do [...]

Dear All, How can I calculate how much energy converted from Solar Energy to Electricity? Does it based on the how strong of the sunlight? Does it based on how many solar cell? Any detail equations for this purpose? Thanks a lot. Holly Taken from wiki: "At solar noon on a clear March or September [...]