Help choosing solar panels?
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first know your electric bill and how much Khw you use per month on average so you know where to begin. Then each panel maker will then say about average output of the panel.
most effecient way to go is a paddle wheel in a small creek and that axel hooked to a DC motor. DC motor hooked to convertor to change to AC power for house. No worry bout sun, no worry bout wind w/ turbines, streams run and run. And can be a small wheel as you can tube off from the stream to channel the water downhill to gain speed and force and then have the pipe exit back out to the creek again.
Great way to remove water, measure your roof, sq feet, then break that down into inches and figure up the average rain fall for your regions. Calculate out gallons of water you could collect from your roof into a bin. Great for garden, yard, even hooked into plumbing to take care of toilet water.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/...
example: house roof is 20' x 20'
20' = 240", so sq. inches of roof is = 57,600" say rain fall for your area is 3" per month on average. 57,600" x 3" = 172,800" of rain collected. Using the conversion chart link above, that many cubic inches of water = 750 gallons of water free per month. Look at your water bill and see how much you use.
Solar panels take on average 12-20 yrs to pay themselves off, just in time for them to be replaced. Paddle wheels go on for just about forever. We still find large paddle wheel mills in the USA that are over 200 yrs old, and still functioning.
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