Get Your Green On

Organic thin film solar photovoltaic films that are printed on an adapted label maker machine. UpBeatnik aka Vic Aguilar.

Learn how to use a standard multimeter to test if a solar panel is electrically working correctly or not.

I finished the greenhouse today. The greenhouse is made from mostly recycled materials. I used discarded sliding patio doors for the glass, a screen door from Freecycle.com, 4″ stone floor, concrete patio planters for containers. The soil is 100% organic and my hopes are to provide at least a salad a day for the rest of my life, organic of course. The music playing is Wayana (sp?) on a rummage sale CD player that’s running off of the sun through 3 solar panels into a car battery, then through an inverter. It’s the first day for the solar panels. If I used an Ipod, I could power 50 -100 of them with what the old CD player is using. That would leave lots of electricity to power a laptop, the router, cable modem and printer and 12 volt florescent lights. Even the batteries in the digital camera can be recharged by using the solar panels. I’ve just discovered LED flashlights with batteries also rechargable off of the sun.

www.greenpowerscience.com This video shows the power of direct cooking. It is 5 times faster than bottom cooking but requires a lot of experience and requires caution. This is our third cooking episode using only a large Fresnel Lens and ONLY the power of the sun. www.greenpowerscience.com

Watch video of Lawrence Kazmerski, director of the National Center for Photovoltaics in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, discussing the prospects of solar-photovoltaic (PV) technologies, arguing that this solar-electricity source is at a tipping point in the very complex realm of worldwide energy at Vanderbilt University Dec. 3, 2007.

The Space Solar Power Policy discussion that happened at SpaceUp DC on Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 10:00am EDT

www.greenpowerscience.com This is a small 24v DC geared motor I attached to one of our Small Stirling Engines using plumbing fixtures for a mount. This is a NO LOAD TEST. The maximum voltage was 22v DC and the estimate was 300 mA. So this can produce about 6.5 watts with this simple setup. I am working on a more efficient process. Due to the weather, NO LOADS were tested today but I have tested some LEDs and small DC motors with good results. I will expand this test when we get better sunny days. Summers in the Sunshine State are 150 days of clouds:-)

100% eco-friendly, zero-emissions computing! This is a tour of the solar power system I engineered for charging and powering my Apple MacBook laptop as well as other devices. (Nokia N800 internet tablet, cell phones, lights, etc) I have employed 12 solar panels wired in parallel developing around 39 watts in the sunshine. The panels are managed by a solar charge controller wired to a 655CCA 12V car battery. The battery charges all day, then is brought in at night to power & charge my devices. It is capable of charging a completely dead MacBook battery as well as operating the machine under heavy load. A 400 watt DC-AC inverter is used to provide 120VAC. (household current) The inverter is capable of delivering 800 watts for short periods.

Please rate, comment and subscribe! Many manufacturers are going into production or creating concepts with integrated solar panels in the roof or body of the car. Although under normal use this will not provide all the vehicles power it will make a significant contribution when you factor in the decreasing cost of solar panels and the rising cost of fossil fuel. Here are some examples: Solar Toyota Prius: www.solarelectricalvehicles.com Fisker Karma: www.fiskerautomotive.com Saab 9 X concept: www.saab.com BMW concept with solar roof: www.autobloggreen.com Ford Reflex concept: www.automobilemag.com Giugiaro Quantara concept: www.autoblog.com and many more… The Fisker Karma can already be ordered from the Fisker website – the first ones are scheduled for delivery in 2009. The music theme is called ‘sunshine’. The wattage of the average car roof panel is around 250 watts. If you covered the entire car in solar film or panels you would get around 1000 watts or more.

SSPS (Space Solar Power System) is technology to generate solar power in the geostationary orbit and transmit it to Earth. JAXA is engaging in research on this system.