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Panels Inside Houses:
Why not have small solar panels inside the house as opposed to outside of the house? I know, you would get less power because less sun if the panels are smaller and inside houses, buildings, etc.
Some Power vs No Power
But is some power better than no power at all?
Disguised
I would hide the panels inside houses and put one-way mirrors over them, as in windows that you see on Law & Order, Criminal Minds, on those television shows where the suspects can't see through the mirror. But the guys on the other side can see through that window mirror wall.
Window Mirror Wall Hide
I would put solar panels on the one side as a way to hide them.
Panels & Batteries
Can you connect panels to batteries? If you could, then you could slowly charge up batteries.
Store Up Batteries
Then if you had a big basement, attic, shed, or something, you could store thousands of batteries, generators, devices, etc.
Backups
Perhaps, you could have them as backups. Someday, if some people didn't have power, like many in California in 2019 are struggling with for example, then they might buy or rent batteries from you. I know batteries may dissipate the energy over time. But again, it may slowly dissipate.
No Power vs Some Power
In other words, some power is better than no power, right? I would have solar power as a backup. I would not want to rely on solar. I would simply have it just in case. I would try to have batteries. I would have wind mills.
Try Not To Use It
But I would try my best not to use the mills.
Different Power Sources
I would try to have as many different kinds of power sources as possible. The more the better.
Conservatism
I would try my best to save up all kinds of power options and simply not use them like 99% of the time, if at all possible.
Hiding the panels will cut the efficiency by a huge percenmtage. The panels are expensive enough that buying an extra $10,000.00 worth is not an option. Since I plan on running off grid, there is no place for them to send the power
I plan on building the LiIon 24 volt battery bank with about 400 parallel battery banks of 60 watts each. These will feed a bank of inverters to supply my air conditioners (1800 watts) and needed AC devices. The rest of the house will run on the 24 volt battery buss directly, including my refrigerator (65 watt) and freezer (70 Watt).
The wind is a backup to the solar, with a tertiary backup of a gasoline generator running on Browne Gas. All sources charging the batteries with any excess. My second wind generator will be of my own design, and will generate a lot more power at the same wind speed.
The solar panels will be on an articulating mounting that points them to the sun for max power generation. They will have an EMP shield, and the wiring will be inside metal conduit. The leads will be fused, and limited with an old style spark gap limiters. There will be separate solar chargers from each panel for best charge control. All wire will be inside a metal building, inside metal conduit.
I am far enough out in the country, that I will be way down the list to look for. Not a obvious enough system, close enough to the grid, to draw them in.
:)>I didn't know that there were gasoline powered power generators. I've never really thought about that. So, like a lawnmower. I mean, like a motor. So, can you use the gasoline powered generators to charge up batteries, etc? I would imagine that it takes up a lot of gas. Are there or has there ever been generators that would be powered by coal or water or potatoes or other things? I didn't know you design wind mills. That's excellent.
When we feed the homeless, we keep the roasters below, warm with 26,000 watts of gas fired generators.
Browne gas is made from water. Splitting water molecules into two hydrogen and one oxygen makes water into fuel. This will run an internal combustion engine, when fed into my generator....
The wind generator is a vertical axis design called a Darius rotor. It is a special variant, and will be the first of it's kind. Two decades of design work so far, but the numbers look very impressive.
:)>Can you make split the water molecules to create Brown's gas, the oxyhydrogen? How expensive might it be to split the molecules? How much would a oxyhydrogen maker machine cost? What do you think is more valuable, power from the sun or power from the water? Is this oxyhydrogen power the only example of how people can draw power, energy, from water? Is solar power the only way to get power from the sun? I've heard that there is something called moon power or I'm not sure what they call it where you have the moon creating the ocean waves that you find at beaches and moon power or wave power would somehow collect the power from that. I'm not sure if that is connected to kinetic power. Oh, wave power. Tidal power. Biofuel. Biogas. Hydropower. I should make a post talking about different power sources like these and others.
The expense of HHO depends upon the cell design, and the driver used. I have a design with off the shelf materials that should present a large surface area to make the most HHO.
I will be driving it with an AC signal, to avoid electrode breakdown problems. I plan to adjust the frequency of that drive signal to peak the HHO production. It will be more efficient than the DC driven plate type cells. But there is no data on these changes all together, so I will need to run some tests for the best operating point.
Theoretically, there will be a frequency that will be best to split the water into HHO. I have not been able to find any research on what that frequency should be for top efficiency, so I will just have to vary that frequency and test it.
I plan on monitoring the current to the cell, and to look for a corresponding voltage null for the peak power point. Once I find that, I will measure the HHO flowrate. If I get enough, I will try to run a car on it.
I will post this as I go along. But I should be able to get plenty of volume to run a generator. It would be kind of fun to run my house with water as a fuel.
I have seen a number of designs for harvesting wave action, and it is a very reliable source of power. But, since I am in the middle of the country, I can't do it here.
I intend to collect Heat from the sun, for DHW (Domestic Hot Water) and I may use a Peltier Module to make electricity from solar heat. But I have to finish the conventional system first.
Could you then collect rain water and have it funnel into an H2O to HHO machine? Is Alternative (galvanic) Current (AC) generally more efficient than Direct Current (DC)? Are AC and DC the main kinds of electric currents? Just those two? According to Wikipedia, I can only find these two. When I was teaching English in Vietnam, I saw that they generally have their water heaters, their water tanks, on the roof, and the water would warm up that way from the sun.
There is pulsed DC. By turning it off and on, DC can be made to act like AC, somewhat.
Once I find the frequency that works best, I will try pulsed DC to compare efficiency. It is a lot cheaper and easier to make.
Solar hater heaters are not new technology, but if you can put the tank higher than the heat collector, convection will circulate the water. This way will avoid the need for a pump, increasing efficiency of the system.
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