how-to-make-a-solar-panel

Since the beginning, energy from solar rays creating photosynthesis has provided all the necessary nutritious food, and plant life. Through winter months, we relied on the heat of sunshine to stay warm and sunlight to search for food and seek shelter.

As civilizations advance, we learn to build our homes in environmentally friendly locations and position the structure to the seasonal paths of the Sun to make full use of its light and warmth. Solar energy allows us to dry our laundry on a clothesline, cook our food in a solar reflective oven and generate hot water and electricity.

DIY solar heating is available to every residence at a reasonable cost, allowing homeowners to harness energy from solar rays to heat water that can be used for showers and laundry. Through absorption, the system collects heat that is then transferred to tubes of water as it cycles through the storage tank. This effective simple installation can completely eliminate the need to heat water through traditional methods using conventionally purchased electricity, which typically on average saves the homeowner 30 percent on monthly utility bills.

Through the installation of commercial solar panels, homeowners can reduce or eliminate their family's purchased utility company electricity. However, statistics show that the average cost of a one-kilowatt solar power panel system, commercially fabricated and installed, is typically priced at $10,000. Because a one-kilowatt system produces nearly 1700 kilowatts per year, and the average household requires about 800 kilowatts per month, most homes would require a five-kilowatt solar power panel system to completely remove themselves from the national power grid.

There are other options available for any individual interested in fabricating their own DIY solar panels. The internal working part of any solar panel is typically made up of photovoltaic solar cells, an inverter, a battery, a controller, a support structure and wiring. Most materials can be found locally, and photovoltaic solar cells can be purchased online. Possessing minimal construction skills, average do-it-yourself homeowners can gather the necessary information online, found in DIY solar panel guides, to construct and install quality-made solar panels at deep-discounted prices. A basic small solar power-generating panel can be fabricated in an afternoon.

By constructing multiple solar power panels, along with using a solar water heating system, most average size homes can generate enough energy to completely remove themselves from purchasing conventional electricity to meet their daily electrical demands. Because solar panels and solar heating systems require little to no maintenance, they continually provide free electricity for decades, saving the homeowner money, every day the sun shines.

For environmentally conscious homeowners, who take full advantage of using solar energy by fabricating and installing a whole house solar energy-producing system, they can prevent tons of coal being burned every year. This will eliminate the pollution all that coal would have produced, along with tons of CO2 that now will not be released into the atmosphere.

For decades, it was impossible for the typical homeowner to use solar energy, simply because of the upfront costs. However, it is now very affordable, and because the complete system does not need to be fabricated and installed all at once, it is possible to build the entire system in small pieces, as time and money dictate.

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