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Hike in lead prices causes battery price to increase
I was looking around on http://www.solarray.com/ when I stumbled upon the batteries page of their online catalog. At the bottom was this: **NOTE ** The price of lead is climbing every day. From 8/1/07 to 8/20/07 it has gone up 25%. Please email support@solarray.com for current prices. Id heard somet …
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New Links
Just added more links to the Charts and References and Water Heating pages. Check back often if there is something you are looking for and/or havent found, or feel free to leave a comment or send me an email!
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Solar Panel Manufacturing Plant - Fort Collins, Colorado
Power By Christopher Ortiz cortiz@fortcollinsnow.com A new solar-panel manufacturing plant in Fort Collins could add as many as 500 new jobs and further cement northern Colorado as a hotbed for alternative energy technology. Officials at AVA Solar Inc., a start up company, announced last week they w …
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Brewery to be served by solar
to be served by solar By Jennifer Barker Staff Writer Article Launched: 01:00:00 AM PDT var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth > 0){ = requestedWidth + "px"; = "0px 0px 10px 10px"; } …
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SOLAR PANELS EARNINGS –Solartron struggles with sales slowdown
September 10, 2007 ?? ???? SOLAR PANELS EARNINGS Solartron struggles with sales slowdown ARANEE JAIIMSIN Solartron Plc, a SET-listed solar module assembler, will struggle to break even in the current poor investment climate, says chief executive Akaradej Rojmeta. The company expects to report low …
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DIY Network’s coverage of the DoE’s “2007 Solar Decathlon”
Just stumbled across this article on the web, and thought it Decathlon chronicles university students who compete to design, build and operate the most effective and efficient solar-powered house. On the National Mall in Washington, DC, 18 university student teams compete for two weeks to capture, c …
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More solar space heater stuff
Just killing some time here in the library at school, doing some research for the solar space heater. The tank enclosure will be similar to this: Which was taken from this article at Mother Earth News. This article is full of great information regarding Integral Passive Solar Water Heaters. I also …
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Solar Space Heater
Ive decided to use the water heater tank as a space heater of sorts. We have an old cast iron radiator that I think would be perfect to heat our bedroom with. Since the bedroom is on the opposite side of the house from the wood stove, but also on the south side, this is good. So far the plan is to s …
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Batch Style Solar Water Heater
As all extensive projects do, the solar cabin build has stagnated while good deals are found on the required materials. In the true spirit of being broke, a new project was undertaken today. There was an older propane fired 30 gallon water heater out back by the barn, so I stripped it down to start …
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Putting Together Solar Cells
Ive been looking for ideas on how other people have made panels out of individual cells bought wholesale or on ebay, and ran across a great write-up. (Unfortunately, there are popup ads, but there isnt anything I can do about that..) Anyway, check out this site, it does have some decent ideas. ??Her …
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Updated Cabin Plans version somethingorother
Updated the cabin plans again.. Still not finished, but closer to what it will look like: Back Angle Back Angle 2 Front Angle Frong Angle 2
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Small, Cheap, Norwegian Electric Car
Link to CNNMoney article Just found this on Slashdot.org: A Norwegian car company plans to release a small plug-in electric car that will go on sale in Europe next year, and could hit US markets by 2009. The company is working with Google, Tesla Motors, PG&E, and the inventor of the Segway, to p …
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Glass Solar Panels
With the bit of cash I had left over this week from my paycheck, I bought some smaller solar panels on eBay to put together into a larger panel. They shipped out today, and are glass panels (6x12), not the traditional silicon wafer type. Here is an article describing the differences I wanted to get …
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Updated Cabin Plans
Well, the comment on my last post about the cabin plans made me remember that I had a slightly updated version on my USB thumb drive. I just exported to PNG and have links for your viewing pleasure. Front view Angled front view Better angled front view Rear angled view Side view
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Solar Death Ray!!!
For all of you mad scientists out there with a laboratory in your basement and a craving for action movie scenes, I have a link that was given to me by a friend. If solar death rays are your thing, then definitely check this site out. The premise is that a bunch of mirrors (112) at specific angles c …
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