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Solar Panels - Emergency Power Systems
Power is no longer a luxury as it was a couple of years back but is now becoming a necessity. When the power goes out it is like your life comes to a standstill. Your basic necessities like water will not be available as there will be not power to pump the water to the tank, the fridge and microwave will not work. Our lives basically come to a halt and this can be avoided by simply equipping your house with an emergency power system. An emergency power system is something that ensures that you have constant power supply at home. This makes it a lot easier when you have a power cut and you have uninterrupted power supply. There is also solar power that you could look at as an alternate source of energy. There are many ways you can build your own solar panel and store the power in cells which make it a lot easier to have a backup arrangement for your power supply. There are many diy Solar panels that you could build at home and it is not very difficult. There are a lot of people who are looking to switch to solar power not only as a backup system but completely. This is mainly due to the growing concern of global warming.
Building your own solar panel is a lot cheaper that buying a professional one as long as you have a fair idea about putting it together and are familiar with the process. There is a lot of material available online nowadays that will not only help you put together a fully functional homemade solar panel but will also ensure that you reduce not only your dependence on fossil fuel but also your electricity bill. Though a solar system is expensive in the moment you will save a lot of money in the long run.
There other options you could look at with a homemade solar panel, for instance you could have the water heater running on solar power or even your basic lighting in your house. You could also buy a professional solar panel. It would be a little expensive and so if you want to reduce the cost of installing a solar panel at home and still buying a professional one, you could buy the components and install them yourself. But if you want to make one on your own then you can make the basic solar panel out of copper and other easily available household products which can substitute the consumption of electricity that you require to heat up water in your house. But for the gadgets like the refrigerator microwave etc you would probably need the regular power supply as a solar panel made at home would not have the capacity to ensure that all the gadgets are running. Though the sun give out a tremendous amount of energy which will ensure that all our power needs can be taken care of we have not yet risen to the level of being able to harness all that energy and converting it into usable and transferable energy and if we manage to do that we will never have to face a power shortage again.
Though building a solar panel at home is a bit of a tricky and tedious process the rewards of firstly making your own panel by yourself and secondly the satisfaction of doing your bit to save the environment will make you feel a lot better and a lot more confident in your abilities. There are a number of places where you could also learn to make a solar panel and this will help you get started.
