For someone with experience in DIY, building your own solar panels is an easy task. All you need are the materials and the resources from a kit as well as a few simple tools and basic components, and you’ll be putting together your own solar panels in no time.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Ready, Set, Solar: What You Need to Know About Making Solar Panels at Home!
New Vertical Model Turbine Wind To Power New York
Loch Sheldrake, NY – This fall marked the dawn of a new type of model turbine wind power, where Manhattan-based Environmental Technologies and Sullivan County College celebrated the introduction of their first 1.25-megawatt vertical axis wind turbine to be built on the campus grounds.
Environmental Technologies’ founder and president, Sam…
Wind Generators for Sale – Understand These Important Factors Before Buying
There are many advertisements today offering wind generators for sale both in newspapers, magazines and online. However, before you make your purchase there are certain factors which one needs to take in to consideration beforehand. In this article we look at just what some of these things are.
Solar Oven Designs For Healthy Sustainable Cooking
For several decades various solar oven designs have typically been used in third world regions where electricity or other fuel sources are hard to find. Solar cookers have been used effectively in sunny African countries like Sudan to not only cook food, but also for water purification and pasteurization.
And like other solar technologies, there’s no…
Why Americans Need To Pay More Attention To Green Energy
Although Americans tend to travel less than people in other countries and often speak only one language, we have always been concerned with the way the world sees us. Yes, the stereotype of the ugly American is one most try to live down when traveling overseas. But recently Americans have been roundly criticized, as a nation, for their consumption, or really over consumption of the world’s energy. According to the most recent statistics, America is about 4 percent of the world’s population and yet we consume nearly 25 percent of the world’s energy.


