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Uncovering Green Living
In my younger days, I would go camping with friends practically every weekend. If a whole month went by without my heading out to the woods, I would begin to get antsy and alienated. Being in touch with nature was more a necessity than a vacation or a luxury. But then, as happens to us all, I started getting older and more dependent on modern amenities and technology.
Now happily married, I’ve had to make a few compromises and concessions in order to go camping much at all. For instance, my wife is not the traditional outdoorsy type. She would take a featherbed over a down sleeping bag any day of the week. With that in mind, I saved up to buy an RV with all the top-of-the-line appliances and other luxuries. I mounted RV solar panels to the roof in order to save on power, and the effort has given me a chance to reconnect with nature once more.
Have you ever had to go up into the attic on a Hot summer day and the temperature is around 90 to 95 degrees outside that day. Well I have had to, I had to go up into the attic on a Hot summer day to get something out of a box I had stored up there or I have had to go up there and place more boxes of stuff we had to store, you know try to stay organized.
Well let me tell you, when you have to go up in the attic on a day like that, I think you will agree with me it’s so Hot up here it will take your breath away. If you was to place a thermometer in the attic to read the temperature it would read between 120 to 140 degrees, that temperature is unbearable for any amount of time, you can’t stand it for very long.
Don’t you think there’s got to be a way to remove this heat in the attic, and to think how this kind of heat is pressing down on your living space inside of the house. Now wonder why your air conditioning unit is running all the time fighting against the temperature outside, let alone the temperature in the attic.
There is a solution:
You could install or have installed Solar Powered Attic Fans to pull the Hot temperature out of the attic. It works like an exhaust fan, and runs by a Solar Cell to power the motor for the fan that pulls the heat out of the attic, and has a temperature switch that turns the fan on & off, and you don’t have to hook the unit up to a electrical outlet ether. Your one time price could just possible save you quiet a bit of money from your electric bill.
Now that makes sense to me, How about you!
“Gadgets” Don’t we just love them.
Many people these days have a lot of gadgets, we have cellphones, i pods, pda’s, laptops, and what do they all have in common: weak or dead batteries. The batteries have to start to die out when we are in the middle of a project or in the middle of a call or waiting for our favorite songs to come up in the play lists our battery starts to die.
You know what a problem it is carrying your charger with you and running around trying to find an outlet somewhere to charge them back up.
Their is a solution, a new gadget, and it’s called a Solar Power Pack it is the latest new gadget people on the move need to have with them to keep your gadgets operable. The Packs come in different variety’s of sizes and they unfold like a book, just lay your Solar Pack outside in the sun and your charging pack is powering up your gadgets.
In no time you have powered up and your back on track and ready to go.
Finally we have portable Solar Power on the go, when we need it, and sooner or later your going to need it. Power up!
Do you have a Pole Barn with metal roof panels or thinking about building a new Pole barn with the metal roof panels. Did you know company’s make Solar Panels built right into the panels themselves now. And they also have Solar Panel film about 4mm thick that you can apply to the metal in between the risers.
If a person wanted to hook up electrical power to their new barn or wanted to up grade the older exiting barn to a new self efficient electric power system by using solar metal roof panels or the new solar panel film cells it’s never to late, with a little investment a person can have a self efficient solar power electrical system hooked up to their barn for power and lights.
In time you could save big money from not having to pay more on your electric bill, save money by not having to pay for running a main electric cable to hook up the electric supply to the barn for ” Off Grid ” power, or run the main electrical cable to supply the barn and then you can think about hooking up the solar power system to the breaker box. We call this hooking up to ” On Grid “.
This way you supply electric power back to your meter, this considerable helps with the kilowatts your household is useing. ” Supply & Demand “ You just may be surprised about how much money your saving every month on the electric bill !
There are hundreds of videos that can show you how to make Solar Panels.
U Tube is a fine example of where you can go to get video information on how to build Solar Panels and see exactly how easy it is to build. There are several company’s that you can buy cells from, and there is a couple of good places like Amazon and E bay you can find good deals on solar cells at a cheaper price. You can even fix broken cells with clear silicon caulk, as long as you can solder the tabs together they will work.
I will add more information on building Solar Panels and thier componants in my future blogs.
Do you remember when you have to run to the shed or barn to get something or look for something that you need, and it’s shadowy and dark in the corners. Especially at night time, it is real dark outside and you know you have to chase down the flashlight if your lucky enough to find it. And usually you have to carry the flashlight plus whatever else you have to carry out of that dark building.
You say to yourself, “Boy I wish I had lights in here so I could SEE”.
And you probable think, running electricity out here is going to be costly, especially if you have to hire a electrician to do the installation.
I have a solution to your problem! With today’s technology, We can have Solar Lights!
Just mount the panel outside to hit the sun, and hang the lights inside to elemenate the darkness.
Hard-working gardeners are always eager to show off the fruits of their labor, especially in spring and summertime. All that time and effort they apply to cultivating colorful blossoms and blooms pays off when a friend or family member pays the garden a compliment. But for the longest time those with green thumbs were unable to display their talents at night without running up the electrical bill.
Now, thanks to solar landscape lights, the flowers can be the star of the show at night as well as during the day. Such lights can be placed strategically among the foliage in order to draw the eye from one plant to the next. This provides a sense of organization and artistry. There’s no reason to wait until dawn to delight in the sight of your flowers when solar lights are now so practical.
You know how everybody loves to know what the temperature is outside, especially when you are running out the door going to work or any other place and usually in a hurry to get going.
And Would it be nice to have a thermometer showing you the outside temperature by the door so you can see as your getting ready to leave.
That would help you quickly decide whether to grab a sweater, jacket or coat.
And what would be better than to have a nice accurate digital thermometer that runs on batteries and is charged by a Solar Cell
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That way you can place it anywhere you like without having to be close to a electrical outlet, you just need a little sun light to shine on the cell.
Buy the thermometer once and, you don’t pay for any extra electricity. It would also make a good gift that is very useful.
NICE!
Did You Know:
The history of Solar Panels dated back to 1829.
A French scientist named Antoine-Cesar Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect. The discovery evolved during an experiment, a electrolytic cell was made from two metal electrodes and were placed into a electrolyte solution.
Becquerel discovered that when the cells were exposed to light it produced a certain amount of electricity, the more light there was the more output of electricity.
To our satisfaction that was when Solar Panels were invented.
Thank You- Antoine-Cesar Becquerel
Green technologies and building green is the future!
Green Technology and the ideas of building green is not going away, it is only the start. It is the new future that we can get used to, and think about how these new ideas are going to help our children and future generations.
It’s Good for the environment!
It’s Good for the economies!
I see thousands of new jobs to be created. I see new businesses starting up all over the country-which means all kinds of new jobs.
As technology advances, there will be millions of new ideas to advance on, Solar Power, Wind Turbines, Generators, Batteries. Would it not be Great and fulfilling to create energy without pollution.
My Friends, these ideas could make us very happy!