Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Content Keyword RSS
Brad - Thanks for the very well thought out explanation of the true costs on Solar Panels. I find many articles touting School Districts and higher education campuses employing “Solar” as their product of choice to cut energy costs. These decisions are presumably made by intelligent, well informed people, so I am confused. Why it is that a person of authority would choose solar when clearly it is not the best use of their limitied funds? I say this because my husband’s company recently expan
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As you may know, I travel about 300 days a year doing hypnosis shows and life coaching seminars. All that time in airports really adds up, and if you’re a road warrior like me you know there’s nothing worse than having your laptop battery (or cellphone or ipod) die in the middle of a long trip. It kills your productivity and you end up sitting around watching bad airplane movies and munching on things to pass the time. I’ve tried using a second laptop battery to solve this problem, but it r
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“A license to print money”Xcel Energy is proposing a new penalty on Colorado residents who generate their own renewable electricity.The “infrastructure upkeep fee” could range between $20 and $200 per year, the Denver Post reports. Customers who buy and install their own solar panels would essentially be asked to keep paying for some of the energy they’re no longer using from Xcel’s electricity grid.“It’s only fair everyone pay for the system,” an Xcel spokesman said, noting that the grid provid
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Fraternity houses are not know for being eco-conscious. Most fraternities are known for their partying and campus irreverence than for any sort of environmental conscience. Fraternity houses are better known for piles of empty pizza boxes and beer cans than ecological tidiness. Elephantjournal.com found at least one college fraternity in Boulder, Colorado, that was bucking [...]
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Solar panels have come a long way over the past few years, there was a time when powering a calculator was the best you could expect from the small panels. But now a solar panel no larger than a cell phone can provide enough power to charge up the batteries of small devices. Technical specification: Rated input – 5.0 – 6.0 V DC Rated output – 5.5 VDC, 800 mA Battery capacity – 3.7 Wh Operation temperature – 0°C – 50°C Dimensions (unfolded) – 290 x 97 x 16 mm (folded) – 144 x
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