Solar power

[J0sh1]

Solar power is great, take it from a guy who lives off-grid.

My system on average produces 2KW which is a lot more than what my house really consumes. Thing is I live in a handmade 14x20 lofted cabin built by me and my energy demands are really really small.

Things is most houses have a really HIGH energy demands and people are not educated enough about saving. Appliances with ghost loads (even though they are off they keep sucking juice) unefficient appliances etc can really destroy a solar system in terms of efficiency and power production/storage.

Also I would not recommend going for the "Net-Meetering" programs that the goverment offers. Even though it sounds tempting to sell excess power and get a credit on your bill, you have to hook up your system to the commercial grid and you will be suceptible to monitoring and the random utilities guy wanted to fuck with your hard earned bought setup. No way, also spikes and surges can fuck up solar systems in a synge.

Chances are that if you live in a house in the city or the suburbs with all the modern commodities of today, its going to take a whole lot of $$$ to set up a stand alone solar system.

 

[Verite]

Once people educate themselves on batteries and available sunlight Im sure you'll find there isnt one hid using grower thats able to go solar.

.. come on hold up your hand if you thought you could go solar and live in north oregon.

 

[Habibi]

theres only a couple major problems with solar. the cost of equipment is ridiculous, and the number of solar panels you need to power an average grow room would require more then just the space available on your roof.

im gunna post that high times article when i get the chance.

 

[reefa cheefa]

Hey all i have been pondering on the subject for sometime untill i saw this show called 2057 its on history or discovery or one of the edu channels well in this epposode they brokedown all the renewable energies water wind and solar and even methane from crustatians decomposed at the bottom of the sea, and the pros and cons and they showed how they were working on the new solar pannels to catch the different color frequencies and all that yawl should chek out tha show if u have tivo or something 2057.

 

[Guest]

I read a book on solar...and it said the main people who first started using solar here in the states, and how it got started here....were the pot growers in nor cal. Getting electricity out to their outdoor grows.

 

[supermanlives]

its all about having enough start up money. i currently am doing a 125 watt floro grow run on solar. if i had like 40000$ i might try an hid solar grow.with solar your battery bank is almost important as the panels themselves.

 

[Guest]

He isnt the first with the idea they actually had an article about a group who grows medical herb up north in california. they purchased a huge piece of property were growing outside and setting up what used to be a barn to produce indoor buds with solar electricity. if you want i can scan the pages from high times and post them up here

high times is a joke. that grow is powered by batteries which are charged with a big generator...only a very small bit of charging is supplemented with the solar panels yet high times calls it a solar powered grow...lol.

when i first saw the article i was looking forward to some specifics on the solar set up but there is absolutely zero... they do say what size pots the grower uses though!

 

[Guest]

How can we use the electricity we have access to, to create more electricity? Doesn't the electric company use various capacitors and transformers to bump up the voltage/amperage down the line from the generator? Does this just bump up the voltage with a loss of current? I know of the law of conservation of energy, but I can't see why we couldn't do the same thing, sorta, kinda. I have to go study electrical engineering now. Damn it.

 

[Habibi]

that is true there is very little info on the actual solar grow but but the grower did explain there was huge cost involved and lots of learning to be done

 

[Jesusbuiltmygro]

Yea man what they said Solar Panels suck balls. People who get them have money to waste. It takes something like 20 years for them to pay for themselves on the average home and that's about what their lifespan is also. The only good feature is the fuel is unregulated. I think wind power is actually FAR more cost effective.

You can just buy a home generator and power the entire house off the grid using natural gas, diesel, and gasoline. That's what you would want to power a grow. It's stable and reliable power that is off the grid and doesn't require entirely permanent installation. Solar panels and wind mills are rather hard to use. A backup generator is huge but it can be loaded and moved.

Soon cars are all going electric.. really. They now have the production ready fast charge lithium battery. So.. guess that means the cost of electricity will go up. Hope the perfect LED growing or sulfur lights for the masses.

I've seen people who got off the grid just because they were paranoid that the electric company was constantly over charging them. I'm not sure how loud they are.

 

[Jesusbuiltmygro]

One potential bright light for solar is the new nanosolar technology. I think it's nanosolar.com

anyway it's something to the point of kinda of low end efficiency solar panels, but for 10-20% of the cost. They roll this film out of nano solar cells like it was a printing press. Of course, like most great technology... it's not here.