Going Full On With Solar

Greetings ... today I want to tell you about a friend of mine. I call him "The Mini Genius." He is completing a solar plant at his home and it has been great fun. He built it all from scratch and wrote the code in assembly. Total ground up. He mounted his solar cells on an old satellite dish ... one of the big monsters from way back ... that moves by remote control. He is constructing a mobile housing assembly for his battery array and has already gone live.

Solar technology is one of the solutions to energy diversity. There are so many possibilities these days. Not everyone is able to get it going in their own backyard just yet, but I greatly admire the ones who are bringing the future of energy to fruition NOW ...

The future is bright ... everybody get on their shades ... yeah, yeah, yeah ... I know all about the crash and impending financial doom ... but for this moment, I rejoice for my friend and celebrate his ingenuity. He is a Master Geek ... (g) ...

Tags: energy, solar

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Comment by vanilla on October 19, 2008 at 11:20pm: Hi, Steve and Daniel. I've seen solar panels on houses on TV but I never knew anyone who had a panel system installed. You can buy the solar panels and the batteries easy enough, but how to connect it all together yourself, what components you need, how to create code to make it all work, that was just way cool and way beyond me (g). I imagine buying a ready-made system and paying for the installation would be quite the penny to lay out ... I didn't ask my friend how much it cost in time and raw materials ... but the labor savings would be considerable, I would think. Yeah, the rest of us are waiting for the 'economically available' part ... even an 'erector set/kit' that included everything and we just had to follow the directions ... we could handle that ...

As far as selling it back to the grid ... I have heard about that part of it, too ... I guess it would depend on how much power you were actually able to generate. Even if you created a system just big enough for a single home, on a really bright day, you might have a little left over ... (g) ...

Comment by Daniel Tedman on October 17, 2008 at 2:35am: Hey Vanilla, Interesting topic renewable energy. I would just like to add the benefits of generating renewal power yourself is that you may be able to earn money as the energy is pumped back into the grid.

Comment by Steve McGilbra on October 16, 2008 at 6:56pm: What a great innovator your friend must be to tackle this great feat. Now with that said I think he should work on a way to make his innovation economically available to the rest of us who are not so gifted.