Solar to power Home

How much it is difficult to make own solar panel/ solar power system to power home? Producing electricity at home is a fascinating thing. This is not as much difficult as it is supposed to be, this power system can be made easily with a delegate balance of motivation, proper guidance and confidence. 

There are three options to make electricity at home using solar energy.

a. Solar panels

                  i. Use pre-made solar panels

                  ii. Produce own solar panels at home

                           Obviously in 2^nd option there is some additional work which is one main importance because the efficiency of the system largely dependent on the manufacturing of the solar panels. So some solar cells, frame material and the tools used for the wiring are needed. Details can be seen here.

 b. Solar thermal

    This is again a very interesting method, this time solar heat is to be concentrated at a point for the rise in temperature of fluid to be work in stirling engine. 

   A very easy step by step demonstration is here

Flexible- Paper Batteries

The quest of compact and efficient systems made it possible to achieve such advancements in the field of technology. Electricity play a vital role in such success. Batteries and capacitors are devices to store electric energy. The required size of storage devices increases with the requirement of electric energy to store.  There is a hot research area in every field of engineering and science to reduce the size of systems and to increase efficiency. 

In such effort, scientist from Stanford University came up with a solution that will not only reduce the size of electric storage devices but also made

Transparent Solar Cells

Conversion efficiency of solar cells is small and it needs more space to install solar panels or collectors to produce scale-able electric power. The potential of solar energy is enormous that’s why a lot the design of more and more efficient system is a hot topic of research in the field of energy and power.  

Generating Electricity from Solar Balloon

Balloon is such a common thing that everyone must be familiar with. Material of balloon is of elastic nature that expands to a certain limit when pushed equally from all sides by inside pressurized gas. Pressure inside the balloon can be generated by two methods. Firstly by pushing more air/gas in the balloon as we do when inflate the balloon. Secondly by heating the inside air/gas so that the air/gas molecules occupy more space and hence inflate the balloon. Inflating and playing with balloons is fun for children but scientist came up with a remarkable idea to use these balloons for the production of electricity from sun. A nice idea in this regard is discussed as follows.