Affordable Solar & Wind

Discover What Home Built Solar Panels Can Do For Your Home!

Want to cut down on your electricity bills but don't want to use less electricity? Love leaving your computer on at night, downloading movies or music? Or is your Television always on?Either way cutting these things out will be difficult trust me I know. A solar panel system can cost thousands, how can you pay it off and pay the school fees for the kids or the mortgage, it's just too much. However there are alternatives that can be taken to help reduce your spending. Why buy commercial built solar panels when in 2009 there are reliable DIY guides online to show you how to have home built solar panels powering your home! Seriously!

I have seen and met families who power their house from solar power and guess what? Most of them built it themselves! Home built solar panels are just as effective and efficient as commercial built ones and they are cheap. You can have a reliable home built solar panel system for less than $200. Most of the items needed can be found at your local hardware store!

Commercially built solar panels will be expensive for a long time, why? Because the industry is not very big. This means that there is not enough competition for the the price to go down.

Many of the families that I have met show me the guides that they find online to help them build their solar panels and I must say I was honestly shocked. These guides that I have come across are very easy to understand, most of time they are written in very simple English. They include diagrams that are easily understood and videos that are clear.

If you're looking for a quality DIY guide then this should be the minimum requirement that you should be looking for. If your not happy then most of them have refund policy so if your not happy refund and try another one!

One of my closest friend has started to build solar panels, and he told me that finding a quality guide is essential to powering your home or a few appliances.

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Thinking about building "Tiny Home" anyone know about this?

I am thinking of selling my 3 bedroom home that I own clear and free and building a 800 to 1000 sq ft free standing tiny home. and powering it with solar and wind power. I don't need much more space (along with a shed that might be bigger than house)

Does anyone live in one of these or know about them so they can give me info
It would be more to drive down my living expenses than being green, but like the green results of doing this.

Would be able to do away with utility bills, would take less energy to heat/cool and would serve its purpose.

also thinking of setting up rain collection unit to do most non drinking/cooking applications. for gardening and washing stuff not involved in cooking supplying toilet water and such

I am living that dream right now in my 1000 sq ft house. My friends and co-workers think I am crazy, I am having heck trying to re-finance because I want to get my monthly payments below $300, and as many who review my credit to this day, like the real details, not just the FICA, always ask about my cheap mortgage bill. I have many say, you can aford eight times more, and get one of those energy eaters, but I decided not to.

What I would really like to try is one of those fancy Yurts one day. You can have a 400 sq ft home for less than $20k, and be extremely efficient. Maybe when my kids are older or left.

I am looking at PV panels right now. I have a guy coming out next Friday to do the site evulation. We got to talking about my smaller roof. I could put up enough panels to get about 300 kWh per month realistically, but to get the other two thirds of my power needs, I will have to look at building some free standing units as well. I would suggest you look at the latest technology called microinverters. They are little units that you mount on the back of you PV panels, so you do not have to have one central high voltage inverter. Plus each panel can work to it's own potential. In a attached array, where all panels are gridded to a central DC line work only as good as the least producing panel, so if one get inefficient for any reason, shade, dirty panel, and damage, your other panels in that direct DC tie will only work as good as that lease producer.

I was not too jazzed about the wind units. You really have to set them up high to be anything reliable. They were going to be noise and eye soars, so I am more into solar, plus I am looking at some other deals. You really have to find the ideal things in your area, as some places are not so good for solar, or even wind. Sometimes geothermal is ideal. I would do a lot of research on what others are doing in your area you want to move. There are many sites that dedicate zonal maps for ideal renewables.

If I was going to design another home like this, I would look at really setting up a green roof. You have to have some serious structure to hold the extra weight, but you would have some super insulation, and healthy for home, others and everything else. I wouldn't retrofit an existing home so much because you would need to re-engineer the load bearing walls to support the weight, and the benefit would lose it's value.

I will caution you about storing water. All the experts in rain collection systems say that standing water has more dangers to it than benefits. You have to remember that all the run off is going over sheets of little organisms from bacteria to fungus on your roof, if not bird poop. Many roofs are made of composite shingles with petro chemicals as well that would leech off, not to mention the soup of other potenial organism including mosquito larva that could make home in your collection system. You would not want to put all of this into your garden. Grey water and rain collection should really be for non-food producing plants and lawns, but in true green spirit, a water expensive lawn is not ideal. Something more drought resistent, or even xenoscaping is ideal. Most suburban lawns are far from this...

As for your gardening goes, look up subjects such as Urban Agriculture. There is one family in California that has made a fully functional farm on less than 10,000 sq ft of yard that produces like 80% of their food. I am leery about this because in older neighborhoods, the homes have lead exterior paint, the ones before 1970, not to mention homes have wolmanized fences, storage buildings and garden supports that are full of arsenic, that leech into the ground all near where your food generating garden is sucking up minerals. I would recommend a victory or square foot garden, raised off the ground if you are suburban/urban farmer for your own safety. Think about how much people over do on pesticides, and think about how all that runs off on a big rain storm, most likely though your yard, along with their lead paint chips and other heavy metals.

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