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I'm a proud owner of a completely solar powered system for my Home. Since I built my first solar panels for my home from a DIY Solar Panels Kit, I started helping my family and some friends to build one as well,they liked the savings so much that they convinced me that I should put up a little site to help others learn about solae energy as well. So here it is This is exactly how I save over $200 in electricity bills EVERY month.
I started researching about solar energy after I saw the shape of the economy and all the extra expenses . Basically, I was on a fixed income and needed to save money and I needed to do it quickly. My energy bills were one way of doing this, and I always liked being more environmentally friendly anyways, so I looked into solar energy for my home. Energy bills were one of my larger monthly expenses this is why I wanted to find out how to reduce those costs
doing a little research, to my suprised, I found that most companies that provided this sort of solution were charging thousands of dollars. I knew I'd make my money back eventually (probably after a couple years) but that just didn't work for me. So I did a little more digging and found some plans on how to do build these solar panels myself. But after reading these so-called plans, it felt like I needed to have an electrical engineering degree just to read and understand the plans, let alone make the solar panels, and hooking them up to my house. So I sort of gave up on the idea for awhile.
A solar panel is a device for converting solar energy from the sun into electricity.
The high-efficiency solar cells used to build a solar panel can bought at your local Radio Shack and other stores.The Panels are made from highly processed silicon, and require huge factories, high temperatures, vacuum equipment, and lots of money.
If we are willing to sacrifice efficiency for the ability to make our own solar cells in the kitchen out of materials from the neighborhood hardware store, we can demonstrate a working solar cell in about an hour.
Our solar cell is made from cuprous oxide instead of silicon. Cuprous oxide is one of the first materials known to display the photoelectric effect, in which light causes electricity to flow in a material.
Thinking about how to explain the photoelectric effect is what led Albert Einstein to the Nobel prize for physics, and to the theory of relativity.
