About solar power and storage...?
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Most people have already mentioned the industrial type batteries. This is about as good as you can get today. As for capacitors think of them as being able to store voltage but not power. It can kick you on your tush but will not run a car. As for the future it is best to get away from batteries. Even the most environmentally friendly batteries are not. But in the future it might be possible to store extra power chemically in another process like a fuel cell where you would use extra electricity during the day to create the fuel that would be used at night. This is basically what a rechargeable battery does. It uses chemicals to store energy. The problems is that most of the current methods like batteries take a huge quantity of batteries to store real power and you have to put more energy into your storage system then you will get out. There will always be losses but maybe in the future the losses will be less. On a side note NASA is currently studying the possibility of using gyros as spinning energy supplies instead of batteries.
um i'm not very sure i'm not that smart but I know that you can sttore the energy from the sun to use at night and they also have lunar powered cells so it collects energy from the moon
I have no idea of what storage medium for that purpose is available today, but I do have an idea for the next 10 years.
The solar panels at daytime could power our homes and at the same time charge an array of capacitors. These capacitors could store enough energy to power our homes for 12 hours during the night. Immediately after, the solar panels would be working again in the morning, doing the same job of powering our homes and recharging the capacitor array.
you could probaly get a battery to store on the internet
+thats a good idead cause the extra electicity you have you can sell to the power company
+you dont need that much solar panals around just on your roof
+if you live in a place thats not sunny dont bother
There are a lot of products in the market for this.
Regular lead-acid batteries, the same low maintenance heavy duty ones used for standby supplies, are used.
An inverter is also needed to convert this to the kind of supply used in that location(voltage, frequency). Environmentalists are concerned about extensive use of lead in batteries and the e-waste handling.
These power packs come in all sizes.
The future lies in some sort of lead free storage devices.
The production of hydrogen will overcome the house when the fans fail to exit's fumes and at dinner you light the candle for romance and both end up in heaven after the explosion. You are talking to god about the money well spent, and he is not sure.
"Regular" lead acid batteries could be a bit misleading. What you want are deep discharge batteries such as those used in Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) systems. You would need to figure the amount of power that you need over night for what equipment is going to be in use then. I would increase that by at least 10 percent during the Fall and Spring, and at least 20 percent for summer and Winter. If you can, buy or build a house that is partially buried in a hill side for the extra thermal benefits derived from such a situation. You need a back up generator, I would recommend a diesel, and use bio-diesel as a fuel. Solar is good, and there is a company that plans on doing something similar to what you have suggested right here in the Honey Lake area of California.
Capacitors will get you absolutely no where for the amount of energy that you need to store, forget them. Hydrogen from storage batteries is best solved by keeping them in a building that is away from the home, and is vented. For appliances, there are 12 volt appliances that are available that do as well as our high voltage devices in use in most homes. I would suggest that you consider using methane, which is what natural gas is, that you produce yourself for heating and cooking. A couple of excellent sources for you to consider for other ideas are "Home Power" Magazine, and Mother Earth News. I would get the original issues on CD and see what else might be desired for your energy plans.
One quick idea from those CD's, is if roaches are a problem in your home, forget the poisons. Get a bottle of a sweet wine. Pour some in a dish that has steep sides and place it in an area that won't be disturbed. The roaches will come, drink, get drunk, fall in, and drown. None, or very few go back to the nest, and there is no generational resistance developed to death.
Using solar roofing with a battery storage system is the way to go. You can find a lot of solar energy resources in the Solar Energy Directory of http://www.allsitessorted.com/renewable_... . A lot of those sites listed will help you.
You can already get solar battery chargers
so I would expect a large number of batteries but the power companies won't like that so you'll probably be taxed per battery or per solar panel ( tax on sunlight - I can see that happening especially in the uk)
I have priced the Solar Panels and they are very expensive, $10000.00 per Panel for the Roof not only that but they need to be replaced, life seemed short, for the price one should be paying.
There are battery storage units available for storage at night and there are provisions to sell back unused power to the utilities,this is assuming you are going into it big time.
I live in Arizona and this is an ideal area to take advantage of solar power for electricity as well as for heat.
The problem we are having here is that most homes are in homeowner associations and they will not allow solar collectors to be put up on houses.
A law has just been passed by the legislator to keep the HOA'S from not allowing you to put up a solar device,but the HOA'S are going to fight it by not approving little nit pic things with the installation.if we can get past this hurdle,
I think that in the next ten years solar energy will be common place.
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