The day has arrived when you have to think about how to build solar panels in your own home to save energy bills and therefore precious money and do your little bit for saving the environment.

The advantage of this experiment is to learn about something first-hand what one has only read about. This way you will know what it is for yourself. And your entire family can participate too! To begin, head out to the hardware department.

Once there, buy half a square foot of a sheet of copper flashing, an electric stove, a large mouth bottle, glass or plastic (5 litre mineral jar), a sensitive micro-ammeter, few table spoons of table salt, tap water, sand paper or wire brush on an electric drill, metal shears and three alligator clip leads.

First thing, wash hands to keep clean and dry. Cut a piece of the copper sheeting to the size of the diameter of the electric stove. Now, wash copper sheet with soap to rid it of any oil. With sand paper, clean the sheet really well.

Once this is complete, let the sheet cool off without inducing the cooling process. It will be seen that the sheet is getting smaller. Flaking of the chemical deposits will be seen at this point.

As soon as it cools down entirely, it should be held under a tap of running water to allow the flakes to fall off. This has to be done with ease and a gentle touch so as not to hurt the SOLAR PANEL.

Run water over it from a running tap after it cools down. This will wash off the flakes but ensure you do this really gently and do not erode this SOLAR PANEL created by you.

Clip on the alligator leads. The new, fresh sheet must be connected to the positive part of the meter while the roasted one should be joined to the negative side.

Mix hot tap water with a few table spoons of salt until completely dissolved. Pour the saltwater into the bottle taking care not to wet the clip leads. Pour rill about an inch of the copper sheets are above water. Your solar cell is ready!

Of course, do not think that it will light up a bulb or something like that. This unit generates only 50 micro amps at 0.25 volts. Ways to use this can be as a detector of light or light meter. To light up an entire home would require the manufacture of hundreds more of such batteries. That would come to a huge expense.

It is time that we realize the need to use environmentally generated energy than fuel generated energy. This we can do in our own little way at home to cut down on power bills, hence valuable money as well as do something to save the planet. The nice thing of getting this done is that it is a learning experience for a person and also for an entire family too. Start creating your solar powered battery to yoke the power of the sun, a trip to the hardware shop is required. Learn how to build solar panels.

The good thing about doing this is it can be a fun exercise for an individual and of course, for the entire family as well. To get started on making your cell to harness the energy from the sun to power your home, you will need to make a visit to the hardware store.

Once there, buy half a square foot of a sheet of copper flashing, an electric stove, a large mouth bottle, glass or plastic (5 litre mineral jar), a sensitive micro-ammeter, few table spoons of table salt, tap water, sand paper or wire brush on an electric drill, metal shears and three alligator clip leads.

Next, heat stove on high and put copper sheet on it. The sheet will turn into an orange, purple, red or pink color; soon you will see these colors disappear and the sheet darkens. In this manner, the sheet should be BAKED for 30 minutes.

After this, place copper sheet on stove again and turn on stove to highest heating setting. What you want is for the sheet to turn orange, red, purple or pink; then as the stove heats more, the color from the sheet vanishes and soon, the sheet will darken. It needs to be COOKED for a half hour.

When 30 minutes are up, switch off electric stove and allow sheet to cool at its own pace. The sheet will shrink. You will see flaking happening now and once completely cooled, hold it under running water and flake off very gently. DO NOT brush hard or it might damage the SOLAR PANEL.

You will now need another sheet of copper around the same dimensions as the first. Fit them into the bottle without letting them touch each other. The side of the sheet facing up on the stove should face out into the bottle.

Now, attach your clip leads, one to the new copper plate, and one to the COOKED one. The clean sheet should be attached to the positive side of the meter and the cooked one to the negative.

Now, attach the leads. The second sheet should be wired to the positive area of the meter and the first one must be clipped to the negative one. In hot water, put in a good number of tablespoons of salt and mix thoroughly. This concoction has to be poured into the bottle ensuring that the sheets are not submerged up to an inch from top. This is your home manufactured solar panel!

The cell produces 50 micro amps at 0.25 volts. Do not expect to light bulbs to light or charge batteries with this device. It can be used as a light detector or light meter and it would take acres of them to power your house which would be very expensive.

If you contemplate the benefits of using renewable energy for your home, are you thinking about yourself, or of the spaceship you live on, called Earth? There are gains to be made on both levels.

In terms of your individual view point, the first thing you think of is the cash bonus you make from supplying much or most of your own energy. Sometimes you can even sell your extra energy to your local power company.

From a more grand point of view, the obvious subject that comes to mind is the wars, that we all know have a lot to do with oil. Mighty nations allow their very security to be threatened by this dependence on crude oil. Green energy handling our home power needs has the potential to stop and prevent wars. Can there be a larger motivation to go green than that?

We could make the air we breath a lot cleaner and safer, not only for us, but for our families to be, for generations to come. People would be healthier and cancer and illness would be drastically reduced.

Of all the ways to create power, nuclear energy is the most insane. If aliens exist they must be laughing at our stupidity. The danger nuclear power plants pose, and the taxpayer subsidies they require, make them a mistake beyond belief. Yet for the first time in decades, the United States is planning on building more. Solar based energy powering our homes would make it obvious that more nuclear plants should never be built.

Try to remember your physics class. Do you recall the 1st law of thermodynamics? It said the amount of energy is a constant. Then the second law, the entropy law said energy changes forms by how we use it, and the natural tendency is to wind down and be less able to be used. Well, when you look at how humans have decided to use our energy, it seems like we went out of the way to make the worse possible use of entropy; or that we even tried to speed it up.

But then you look at solar based, green, renewable energy, and you feel like the entropy law took a vacation. We can actually go with the natural flow of energy and use it over and over without much in the way of cost or harm. Whether it’s geothermal or wind or straight from sunlight, or even from the flow of water; the benefits of using renewable energy in our home are for individuals right here and billions of neighbors on the planet. They are felt now and generations from now. They influence our bodies and our financial affairs. The benefits are direct, as well as complex.

Have you ever pondered the benefits of using renewable energy for your home? Do you contemplate your personal advantages, or the perks of the big blue marble, Earth? There are blessings from both perspectives.

From the personal level, there is the obvious benefit of money. It is possible to sometimes generate more energy than you need, and sell it to the power company causing your meter to run backwards, reducing your bill.

On a global perspective you can’t help but think of wars brought on by the dire need for gasoline. Amazingly, national security hangs in the balance of this addiction for fossil fuels. Solar based energy powering our homes could prevent or curtail wars. If there is a bigger benefit than that, it is difficult to imagine.

The reduction in air pollution would be massive. Millions of cancer cases and other diseases would simply be prevented. Life quality would soar with better health for so many. Future generations would also reap the rewards. In addition to the quality of life improvements would come a staggeringly large fiscal benefit on the personal and national levels. It costs a lot of money to take care of patients. The savings created from the lowering cancer and illness rates would boost the economies of every nation.

Of all the ways to create power, nuclear energy is the most insane. If aliens exist they must be laughing at our stupidity. The danger nuclear power plants pose, and the taxpayer subsidies they require, make them a mistake beyond belief. Yet for the first time in decades, the United States is planning on building more. Solar based energy powering our homes would make it obvious that more nuclear plants should never be built.

Try to remember your physics class. Do you recall the 1st law of thermodynamics? It said the amount of energy is a constant. Then the second law, the entropy law said energy changes forms by how we use it, and the natural tendency is to wind down and be less able to be used. Well, when you look at how humans have decided to use our energy, it seems like we went out of the way to make the worse possible use of entropy; or that we even tried to speed it up.

Green energy, though, is almost like a respite, or pause in the entropy law. At the very least, it is an extremely low entropy energy policy that we really need to transition to. Solar based energy can be direct from the sun, derived from the motion of water, or from geothermal activity or wind. No matter what method you choose, the benefits of using renewable energy for your home are felt in your community and your planet, currently and later in time. They affect your well being and your finances. They are easy to understand, yet very deep.

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