Solar Heater Do It Yourself

I found a very nice picture of home made Solar Heater.



Phillip Torrone, the owner of this Solar heater said he need these Ingredients to build his Solar Water Heater.

Ingredients:

• 2x6 lumber
• 2x4 lumber
• 2x2 lumber
• glass, plexiglass, or some kind of clear material.
• black aluminum screen
• caulking, paint, screws, lag screws, staple gun + other tools

That's a great idea and well done. Congratulation.
You can find the original picture on this link

How Does Solar Powered Water-heater Works?

Solar powered water heater usually takes the shape of glass, roof-assembled panel of collector with pipes inside. The heat of the sun is captured inside the panel, and is transferred, by the intermediary of an insulated shock absorber, to water or heat-transfer the fluid crossing the pipes and then to your cylinder from hot water. The principle must in the bottle of thermos flask and much more with the effect of hot greenhouse. For households without tank storage (a water hand-EDF or a boiler of ' combi ', for example) one of reheating of solar water is less feasible.

From an original article in the December 2003 issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine - Natural choice: solar power.
Image Source : www.enviro-energytech.com | www.sole.gr

Current Development of Solar Cell

Solar energy is all about using the power with the sun to produce energy. The sun gives enough of solar energy on the ground in one day to actuate the whole energy needs for the world during one year. Solar energy is considered a renewable source of energy because it will exist so much like does it our sun, estimated to be still 4.5 billion years. Solar energy is also considered a clean energy because it does not produce harmful pollutants or by-products with the environment.
Currently, solar energy is produced mainly by the use of the solar cells, also known under the name of photovoltaic cells. The process functions beside placing the cells in the direct sunlight. The sun strikes the cells causing a chemical reaction which creates an electrical current. The current is then transformed into electricity.

The future is indeed great for solar energy because of the new nanotechnology on solar is close creating solar platform that promote the spirit. For example, some companies try to create the solar quantum dots, which will be mixed in painting that you employ for your house. Yes, you will really paint on the panels of solar energy which will powering your house.

Now the development continues researchers are finding new ways to harness the power of the sun using highly-ordered arrays of titania nanotubes for hydrogen production and increased solar cell efficiency. “This is an amazing material architecture for water photolysis,” says Craig Grimes, professor of electrical engineering and materials science and engineering. Referring to some recent finds of his research group (G. K. Mor, K. Shankar, M. Paulose, O. K. Varghese, C. A. Grimes, Enhanced Photocleavage of Water Using Titania Nanotube-Arrays, Nano Letters, vol. 5, pp. 191-195.2005 ), “Basically we are talking about taking sunlight and putting water on top of this material, and the sunlight turns the water into hydrogen and oxygen. With the highly-ordered titanium nanotube arrays, under UV illumination you have a photoconversion efficiency of 13.1%. Which means, in a nutshell, you get a lot of hydrogen out of the system per photon you put in. If we could successfully shift its bandgap into the visible spectrum we would have a commercially practical means of generating hydrogen by solar energy. It beats fighting wars over middle-eastern oil.”

The highly ordered nanotube arrays also demonstrate remarkable properties when used in solar cells, as reported in the Vol. 6 No. 2 issue of Nano Letters; the Grimes’ team, which includes Gopal K. Mor, Karthik Shankar, Maggie Paulose, and Oomman K. Varghese, describes the initial results of their application of highly-ordered transparent titania nanotubes on the negative electrode in dye solar cells. This type of solar cell shows great promise as a relatively low cost solution to efficiently producing electricity from the sun.

History of Solar Panel

For those interested, here below is a short history of at which the right moment solar energy came to reality.

1876

History of solar cells is started. William Grylls Adams with a student with him, Richard Day, discovered that when selenium was exposed to the light, it produced electricity. An expert as regards electricity, von Werner von Siemens, declared that the discovery was "scientifically great importance". The selenium cells were not effective, but it was shown that the light only could be converted into electricity

1953

Calvin Fuller, Gerald Pearson, and Daryl Chapin, discovered the solar cell made of silicon. This cell produced enough electricity and was really enough effective to run of small electric devices. The New York Times declared that this discovery was "the beginning of a new era, carrying out thereafter to the realization to almost arm energy without limits with the sun for the uses of civilization."

1956

the first solar cells are available commercially but it's price however is far from reach of the ordinary people. For $300 for a solar cell of 1 Watt, the cost was too expensive no matter whom of the means. the first solar cells used in the toys and the radios is commercially available.

1959-1969

Satellites of the United States and of the Soviet space program were actuated by the solar cells and in the end of the Sixties solar energy was basically the standard for the actuating satellites of space.

1970

A manner of dropping to the cost of solar cells was discovered. This changed the price to the bottom of $100 per Watt approximately to $20 per Watt. This research was lead by Exxon. The majority of the oil platforms at sea used the solar cells to actuate the lights of weakening on the top of the installations.

1970-1990

The period of change of the use of the solar cells. They started to reveal on crossings of railroad, in the remote places to actuate houses, the solar cells used by Australia in their turns of microwave to increase their possibilities of telecommunication. Even the solar energy of saw of areas of desert bring water on the ground where power line was not reachable!

Today we see the solar cells in a large variety of places. You can see the solar actuated cars. There is even a solar actuated plane which flew higher than any other plane except the blackbird.

With the cost of solar cells completely in conformity with each one the budget, solar energy is easy to get. Recently new technology gave us a solar cells printed on screen, and with a solar fabric which can be employed to trim a house, even the solar panel which install on our roofs. The international markets opened and the solar manufacturers of panel now play a principal part in solar energy industry.