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Wednesday Nov 02, 2005

Photovoltaic-izing my house

Anybody knew that electricity generated by photovoltaic cells (aka "solar cells") can be passed into the power grid in Germany? In fact, the local grid company must accept it (and yes, even pay you for it, just the same as it pays the nuclear power plant next door).
Which is a nice thing indeed, as I've some square meters of my southwards roof to spend, plus some boxes sucking electricity 24/7 and gnawing at my conscience. So I went for it, and construction started just yesterday - laying the grounds for a total of 3.1 kilowatts peak solar power.

Posted at 09:20PM Nov 02, 2005 by thorsten in Personal  |  Comments[5]

Comments:

I would certainly like to have solar cells to replace our energy source from MERALCO (Philippines). It gives us too much problems and I keep on thinking about the carbon doixide emissions when someone uses electricity. It would be alleviating if we have solar panels for our house; and think about the marvelous DIRECT benefit from the sun! We could save a lot of money and effort. That would be greatly helpful!

Posted by John Christian Sañez on November 11, 2005 at 09:31 AM CET #

Having solar panels to replace the common electricity line will be of great aid to the Earth! If everyone would start this, it will be very advantageous for everyone. There is so much to innovate; we have huge numbers of chemists, engineers, and so on, to repair the industry. It would be a great change in this world, a better change.

Posted by John Christian Sañez on November 11, 2005 at 09:38 AM CET #

If only the people will know.... If only people would understand this, to see and perceive.... If there are only considerable amounts of supportive people; if only companies will be supportive enough, to have a wider thinking and keep on innovate things that are of the past, make it better. Things like that, I know, will not be concealed, but I say, "time is a healer," and there will be people who will hear me. My little voice will be heard everywhere.

Posted by John Christian Sañez on November 11, 2005 at 09:47 AM CET #

The sun shines for half the world, so why don't allow a better use for it? The photosynthetic organisms have adapted to directly use even just a small percent of the colossal energy of the sun. We, humans, can benefit from it directly, too, by the rays of the sun activating a kind of cholesterol in our skin to synthesize vitamin D, but there are more harmful results in overexposure viz. photoaging, skin cancer, cataract, and so on. Why not harness the sun's energy, as Nature has already provided, the solar-activated metals like silicon, cesium, and selenium?

Posted by John Christian Sañez on November 11, 2005 at 10:02 AM CET #

Thanks for your useful post.

Posted by Renewable Electricity on April 17, 2009 at 08:46 AM CEST #

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