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Green Energy Can Cut Your Electricity Bills.
You watch as your energy bill keeps climbing. Wondering where it will all end. Even with practicing all the energy-saving tips, you feel as if there's no hope. This is why homeowners are looking into renewable energy sources. The main focus is on the sun and wind.
When you begin to learn about these technologies, you may find yourself at a disadvantage just trying to make sense of it all. You'll come across words like solar cell, photovoltaic-thermal and thermal mass. Say what? You may feel like you need a degree to work your way around the maze. But stick with it. It will become easier.
If you go with solar power, you'll be converting sunlight into electric current. Solar cells use semiconductor materials to accomplish this magic. These solar photovoltaics are easy to use because they can be installed in a lot of places. Like up on the roof. Or a wall. Even on the ground. And get this: You can even power portable electronic devices by sewing them into your clothing!
Still with me? Then there are solar-thermal systems. These collect solar power to generate heat. Like for heating your hot water and your whole house. And...they can also manufacture electricity without using solar cells.
Then there's the wind. Wind Power is rapidly catching up to the solar industry. Europe has seen explosive growth in wind turbines. Of course, you need to live in an area that gets wind. You can install a wind power generator as a do-it-yourself project and cut your energy bill.
It's more than being "green" or protecting the environment. Your first priority is to you and your family. Because our economy is calling for desperate measures. It's time to become more self-sufficient.
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- Reduce your electricity costs by 80% or even eliminate them entirely
- Get your power company to pay you for the surplus electricity you generate
- Build your own windmill and solar panel for under $200
- Save our planet from pollution by adopting green technology for your home.
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“Because our economy is calling for desperate measures.”
Wind Power Basics
It's hard sometimes to imagine air as a fluid. It just seems so ... invisible. But air is a fluid like any other except that its particles are in gas form instead of liquid. And when air moves quickly, in the form of wind, those particles are moving quickly. Motion means kinetic energy, which can be captured, just like the energy in moving water can be captured by the turbine in a hydroelectric dam. In the case of a wind-electric turbine, the turbine blades are designed to capture the kinetic energy in wind. The rest is nearly identical to a hydroelectric setup: When the turbine blades capture wind energy and start moving, they spin a shaft that leads from the hub of the rotor to a generator. The generator turns that rotational energy into electricity. At its essence, generating electricity from the wind is all about transferring energy from one medium to another.
Wind power all starts with the sun. When the sun heats up a certain area of land, the air around that land mass absorbs some of that heat. At a certain temperature, that hotter air begins to rise very quickly because a given volume of hot air is lighter than an equal volume of cooler air. Faster-moving (hotter) air particles exert more pressure than slower-moving particles, so it takes fewer of them to maintain the normal air pressure at a given elevation. When that lighter hot air suddenly rises, cooler air flows quickly in to fill the gap the hot air leaves behind. That air rushing in to fill the gap is wind.
If you place an object like a rotor blade in the path of that wind, the wind will push on it, transferring some of its own energy of motion to the blade. This is how a wind turbine captures energy from the wind.
Understanding Energy-Efficiency in Replacement Windows
by Aaron O'Hanlon
Replacing your windows could result in energy savings of 30% or more in any region of the U.S. Your choices for replacement windows will consider the style of the window as well as the efficiency and safety of the window.
To help you understand the energy-efficiency qualities of various replacement windows, here are some facts to help you make decisions.
Some window materials conduct heat and cold. The result is some energy loss through the window materials.
The material that loses the most heat or cold is Aluminum. Steel conducts about one-third the amount of heat and cold. Stainless steel conducts about one-third the amount of heat and cold lost with steel.
The most efficient material for windows is wood, conducting 1/1000 the amount lost through aluminum. And just a fraction behind wood is vinyl. The bottom line is that the most energy-efficient window materials are wood and vinyl. Vinyl, of course, requires less maintenance.
The next consideration is about the glass in the windows. Heat and cooling loss through glass can be reduced by adding a second pane of glass and leaving space between the panes to trap the outside air which is at a different temperature from the inside air
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