Category Archives: Alternative Energy

A Tale of Solar Panels, Carts & Horses

UK house with PV Panels

This week we have an interesting guest post from across the pond by a gentlemen named James Hawkins who likes to blog about solar panels and renewable energy. He works for Talk Solar Panels which is a UK firm that was started in 2008 and involves “providing quality solar panel information and a quote comparison
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10 Point Quick Start Guide to Solar

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For many people thinking about solar, it can be pretty easy to get confused or overloaded with all the information out there. With that in mind, we created a simple 10 point quick start guide that covers many of the basics & things most often left unsaid. The type and size of a system depends
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Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century – Options for Power Generation

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Just as quick recap, in the last few posts we started off by specifying the “what we want to do”, followed up by the three most common stumbling blocks people run into & worked on getting a realistic initial sizing requirement for our electrical needs. Unlike the last two articles, that have seemingly been more
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Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century, Initial Calculations for Sizing

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When we first started this series of going off-grid, we started off with Craig Leisher & his family deciding to do exactly that. While him and his wife Susannah decided to pare down there power requirements to just include enough for 2 laptops, a cell phone, and the satellite internet system – we decided to
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Going Off-Grid in the 21st Century – 3 Main Stumbling Block’s

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If you mention to anyone that you are planning or going off the grid, the first thing (and sometimes only thing) that comes to most peoples mind is ditching the power company. Some individuals I have talked with in the past get a funny little gleam in their eyes & talk about “sticking it to
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