What would be the approximate cost to power a 3500 squ. ft. home and a water well through solar power?

i want a solar power system, but dont know if i choose 12v or 24v and why.

Just an update to show that even though it’s good to have a solar backup system, it can also be dangerous if adequate safeguards are not in place. I’m on my 3rd inverter after my 2000 Watt (Continuous) Pure Sine wave inverter “burned” out on me when I plugged in a 1600 Watt household iron (it was the Shark brand iron). I thought it was 1500 Watts when making the video. Anyway, you would think that a 2000 Watt inverter could handle it,,, well no it didn’t. It didn’t even trip the overload protection in the inverter. Just literally burned out. Link to my updated system schematic is below: dc415.4shared.com

Hope this movie will sort of show how easy it was for me to wire this Taylor Dunn Electric Car (EV-electric vehicle), itself run by six 12 Volt each, true deep cycle batteries. They are connected by thick stranded wires about 10 inches long, which any golf cart dealership can custom make for you (cheaper), or you can order them online I suppose. Welding shops are great sources for heavy duty electrical cables. I hope I’ve explained how the solar PV (photovoltaic, dang it google spell check; the word, photovoltaic, is gonna triumph over the needlesly long, separated form goog wants, “photo-voltaic”) gets wired the same way, in SIERIES, as opposed to parallel. Sieries connections between batteries, or PV panels (“modules” they are called in the trade) go from positive to negative and negative to positive, yielding double the voltage output. For example, if all six, 6 volt batteries from a golf cart battery bank, were wired in parallel, hooking together positive to positive terminals six times, the out put would still only be 12 volts; sieries gets you a 36 volt output, or 6 volts X 6 batteries = 36 Volts. This Taylor Dunn warehouse type EV, is like almost all golf carts, 36 volt DC current run. the “Neighborhood Electric Vehicles too function, you just add more batteries and panels is all. Or if they get wierd, install a voltage regulator-controller. Once you own the car paid up, they can’t stop you from altering the thing any way you want. Banks don’t control the laws of …

Israel has embarked on the largest SOLAR ELECTRICAL project in their history. This is to to augment it’s national power grid. This special technology simultaneously emerges on the scene with special ability to provide clean drinking water.

Bob Boehm is the director of The Center For Energy Research at the University of Nevada LV. He has been working w/ solar power for over thirty years and in this clip he gives some history, an update on where solar is these days and what it will take to expand it’s use further. This clip is available at internet.org; www.archive.org MindsiMedia is an Internet broadcaster with a series of YouTube channels under development. Visit our web portal www.mindsimedia.info

I’m doing research on portable solar equipment, and there are a lot of companies out there that I’ve found. Anyone have any ideas as to what brands will hold up for long periods of hiking and driving? It would need to be able to power batteries for laptops, camcorders, and probably some smaller equipment like cell phones, iPods, etc.

For instance, if a solar powered winch lifted a weight, could the subsequent downward motion of that weight drive an electric generator that operated after dark? Or is there some other efficient way to store solar power that is not about a battery, or about just storing heat?

On Friday, June 17, 2011, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and California Governor Jerry Brown broke ground on the Blythe Solar Power Project, the largest solar facility in the world. Solar Trust of America is constructing four solar thermal power plants at this location with a total power output of 1000 megawatts. The first 500 MW phase of construction will be complete in early 2014.

What are the future applications of solar power? Please make your idea realistic! Thx What do you think the most upcoming uses of solar power is? I think solar powered cars are next, but that’s just me. What do you think?