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Make a Solar Panel, Easy DIY
July 8th, 2009 | 
Author: The ability to make a solar panelis not unique to the human race. The tiniest living organisms on the planet have the ability to make their own solar power panels.
A solar panel works by harnessing the energy of the sun and processing it into electricity, which in turn powers items in our homes.
Solar panels are made of many smaller units called solar cells. Each cell harnesses solar energy and produces a tiny reaction; in combination with other cells, it releases electrons which combine to produce an electrical current.
Algae that live in the oceans of the world have been making solar panels for millions of years. They don’t need the volume of energy that we want, from our solar panels, but they make them from the materials immediately available to them.
Scientists many years ago discovered that if you put certain chemicals together in a container and then put that container out in the sunlight, that the energy the sun gives off will change the makeup of the chemicals by releasing electrons. The electron is the functional unit of electricity. The energy that powers all our wonderful technology is a steady and massive stream of these tiny electric particles.
The evolution of science allowed us to improve the size and efficiency of these tiny producers of electron streams. Current technology and growing changes in our fast growing renewable energy sector refers to these chemical reservoirs as solar cells. Each solar cell depends on its own chemical makeup to cause the suns energy to release electrons.
The solar cell that releases an electron is combined with others and they are connected to others, and so on, until enough of them are strung together to provide a sufficient current to be used to power what we want. This collection of individual solar cells, in whatever volume is required, is called a solar panel.
If more energy is needed, these solar panels are then combined to produce a solar array.
So you see all you need to do to make a solar panel is to find the right container and fill it with the right combination of chemicals and expose it to sunlight. Then you can link these cells together, to form a panel and link the panels to form an array. The only thing really missing from this is the right equipment, material and the knowledge. Being handy would probably help too.
To get the assistance and knowledge to make your own DIY solar panels it is very easy now to just use the internet to research and investigate the various and appropriate system for you and this is where this site can help you by giving you access to this information. Remember that the very first solar panels were made from material available at the time. There weren’t always mass produced off-shore solar cells available. Someone invented them. Someone else improved them and invariably someone will probably perfect them.
Naturally, the costs can be considerable, and perhaps you don’t have a lot of money to invest. You will be able to learn how to make a solar panel. You can learn to tie an array together and you can make your own free energy from the sun.
One of the aims of this site is to provide you with the options and recommendations to find and source the information you need to be able to make a solar panel now.
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The price of electricity is going up. It is a fact that our society today is faced with the reality that the cost of living will increase as we develop and grow. Inflation affects all nations and economies and as a nation the way we deal with it will determine our results on how we will grow and prosper. These unavoidable truths force us to consider alternative energy sources like solar panel technology and windmill generators as a way to both save money and be kind to the environment.
The old generating systems for power are destroying the world we live in. Everyone knows that the environmental crisis is one of our making. The only way out of this situation, is for us, as individuals and as a nation, to spearhead the two pronged movement to reduce our energy consumption and develop alternative energy sources that are not damaging to our world.
As a nation, our leaders have taken the initiative and put significant financial resources into home solar panels technology, wind and nuclear energy. Wind and solar generators have the ability to provide electricity with virtually no cost to the environment.
Due to government investment in these renewable technologies, it has allowed the research to move quicker, resulting in lower prices and smaller scale for the home user.
The concept of a small wind turbine and/or a solar array has come full circle, to be seen as a reasonable and rational concept for main stream society.
The technology of solar power – familiar to students of physics — works by exposing solar photons to thin sheets of different electric elements, producing an electric current. With a sufficient number of these panels, it is possible to power your home. The appliances designed even a few years ago to run on a limitless supply of electricity are not the appliances we now need.
The appliances we need must be electrically streamlined to be the most energy efficient appliances we can produce. It is an achievable goal to expect self suffiency in the future if we keep our efforts to spread the awareness at all levels of society.
The addition of a small wind turbine would allow a little ‘breathing room’ for overcast days or in latitudes when the home solar panels don’t contain sufficient energy to make them efficient on these kinds of days.
While the generation of enough electricity to produce heat of sufficient quantity may be difficult in northern climes, the obvious and equally environmentally friendly alternative is the geothermal or aqua-thermal ‘heat pump’. The heat pump is an intricate process that transfers heat from the earth on an average of 65 degree constant temperature and is becoming very popular in cooler climates due to the need for people to adopt renewable systems that are good for our environment and will save us money. It even reverses to cool in the summer.
If this heat pump is powered by your home solar panels, you have succeeded in making your solar panel installation part of the solution to our environmental problem.
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