RE General Discussion

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Solar Chicken Coop

I am building a chicken coop in northern New Mexico, it will be fairly efficient; straw bale walls minimal windows E and W a goo...
Dylan Moore 5

Solar Air Conditioners???

Air-conditioning accounts for the major portion of my electricity usage during the summer months. Since evaporative cooling is i...
John B 8

Solar Absorber Coatings

I am doing my PhD in solar absorber coatings to be used in parabolic trough coleectors of solar thermal power plants. I want to ...
Muhammad Sana Ullah Khan 0

Sol-R-Beam Water Heater

Help! We are looking to repair a Sol-R-Beam water heater that was installed in 1985. It looks like a pretty straight forwartd re...
Richard Tuttle 3

Sol-R-Beam

I have acquired a Sol-R-Beam water heater and need any technical information available on it.  Does anyone know a resource ...
Linda Bugg 0

Sodium chloride usage to store 250 kwh/m3 of solar heat.

I have assembled a little system to store 250 kwh/m3 of solar heat. Solar heat is stored through the heat of fusion of the s...
Javier Ramirez 0

so totally new to alternative energy

I am reading on ine here and ther trying to determine what can i do to use some solar and some wind, perhaps wter too. We get ab...
Dave P 0

snow on solar panel

This must be a problem for anyone in the Northeast: what to do about snow on the photovoltaic panels? We've been climbing a ladd...
Ellen Beberman 2

Smallest PV size for Grid Tie

I'm toying with the idea of a small, i.e. about half a kW, solar array on my house and am wondering what is out there for s...
Jonathan Hunt 3

Small Solar System

Hello, I bought ten 15 watt panels from Canadian Tire (The Eliminator ones...12v and 1amp).  I also bought two dee...
Patrick Guenette 25

Skystream offgrid?

Kinda new to this whole alternative energy thing but have been slowly building a system for my farm in North Dakota.  I hav...
Ron Johnson 2

simple, cheap, shed system

I have a small storage shed (12' x 16') that I would like to install some lighting in.  It is not feasible to run...
Marc Kerschner 3

Simple machines

I am the director of cirriculum at my school and head of the Environmental Education staff.  I would like to know of any si...
Priest Choctaw 2

Seimans SR 100 solar panels

I have a option to buy 10 SR 100 panels.  These are new in unopened boxes from the estate of the original owner.  I ca...
Lynn Barnica 2

School Project Help

Hello all, I am new to the altE community however i would love if if you could help me out here I am currently doing a ...
Taylor Wilson 4

Saving Money on Water Heating

I came up with a way of reducing my electrical consumption for water heat that may or may not be of general interest, but though...
Jon C 6

Sailboat on hook...

I live aboard a sailboat and spend half the year dockside and the other half on a mooring. While on the mooring, I want to be ab...
Stephen Brown 5

Rodent protection

Can anyone help with ideas for protecting a rooftop PV array from squirrels or other rodents chewing up PV wiring? Is this a pro...
Chris Flaccus 2

Revolutionary Non-Fuel Electric Engine - NEW - Recorded with U.S. Govt.

I know this sounds wild, but I have all the U. S. Government documentation, prototype production photos, Copyright Certificates ...
Harold Carter 19

retro-electro car bike conversion

i teach how to convert your car to zero-emission all electric plug-in. would any body want to set up a class in your area? /// d...
Yat-sin Sun 0

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