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Living on Solar - Going Green All The Way

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We Are Living On Solar - See How We Are Using Solar Energy

We live in an all solar home. We heat, cool and power our home using solar energy. We like to share what we have learned over the last 21 years with those who may do the same or want to learn more about solar energy or even how to build a solar air conditioner. We Have also created a website that not only tells how we do it, but shows you as well using videos.

You can also visit our website Living On Solar

What Is The Living On Solar Lens About?

We hope that this site will provide those who are interested or just curious about solar energy a place to come and learn. We have included links to some of our videos to show how we use solar energy. We have recent news items, a list of books that might help in your pursuit and even our blog where you can ask questions or talk about living on solar. We hope that you enjoy what is here.

Living on Solar - Solar Cooling

Build a solar air conditioner

We built a solar evaporative cooler to keep our home cool in the summer. You can use our plans and do the same.

Watch our solar cooling video

Living on Solar - Passive Solar Home

We live in a passive solar home

You can watch our passive solar video to see how it works.

Living on Solar - Solar Electricity

We generate our electricity with solar panels

You can watch our solar electricity video to see how it works.

Living on Solar - Solar Tracking

We made a video and a set of plans for our solar tracker. Please visit our website to learn more information.

You can watch our solar tracking video to see how it works

Living on Solar - Solar Water Heating

We Heat Our Water Using Solar Energy

You can watch our solar heating video to see how it works.

Great Places To Find Solar Products

Real Goods Is A great place to find solar panels and all kinds of solar products

Living on Solar - Solar Books

Here are some books we recommend.

Earth4Energy At Last! A complete plan to eliminate your power bill and pocket the savings for yourself!
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Home Made Energy Renewable energy for the rest of us. How Would You Like To UNPLUG Your House From Your Electrical Company, Knowing That You Are "100% Powered By Nature" With Renewable Energy?
Click Here for more information!

The Solar Power Design Manual will guide you smoothly through the complex process of designing, specifying and installing stand-alone solar power systems for all applications, anywhere in the world.
Click Here for more information!

Great Solar Products on Amazon

Start Living on Solar Like We Do

Living on Solar - Videos

Videos showing how we live on solar.

The Latest On The Living On Solar Blog

Visit Our Blog And Talk About Solar

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Solar Energy News

Advanced Transportation Energy Systems Chart Cleaner Future with Solar Panels ...: (BUSINESS WIRE)--Planners of Oregon's transportation infrastructure are leading the nation in charting a course to a cleaner energy future by selecting SolarWorld solar panels to support their multi-modal services. With unobstructed rights-of-way and ...
solar power lights up rural Africa: (CNN) -- Pay-as-you-go products may be synonymous with mobile phones but a solar energy service in Africa is harnessing the popular business model to bring affordable electricity to the continent's remotest communities. IndiGo solar enables rural ...
Millions of people to receive solar energy access through UN-backed initiative: A Mauritius-based company announced today that it will provide access to low-cost solar energy for 33 million people in Africa and Asia for the next four years, as part of a United Nations-backed initiative to fight poverty. The solar energy provider, ...

Links To Solar Sites We Like

Solar Air Conditioning: We found a way to cool our home using an existing cooler and a tracking solar panel. We want to show others how we did it.
Solar Electricity: We live in an all solar home. We are glad to share what we have learned over the last 20 years about solar electricity.
Passive Solar Home: We live in an all solar home. We would like to show you what it is like living in a passive solar home.
Solar Tracking: We live in an all solar home. We made a small solar tracker for a solar panel that controls our solar evaporative cooler.
Solar Heating - Use Solar Energy To Heat Water: We heat our water with solar panels that are mounted on our roof.

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Earth_Friend Oct 5, 2009 @ 2:25 pm | delete

Great lens! Really enjoyed reading it. Living on solar seems like a great idea. I love when homes have sky lights in them. It really is a good idea. The sun gives off light anyway, so why NOT use it right? I mean of course you would need some kind of energy stored for at night when you need lights. But solar energy is great. Way to go!

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starsam Feb 16, 2009 @ 9:52 am | delete

Your lens would be a great addition to the 'Solar Technology and Solar Energy' Group
( http://www.squidoo.com/groups/solar )
Feel free to add it anytime!

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Retsel Sep 11, 2008 @ 7:20 pm | delete

Green Tech on CNET NEWS published an article on solar panel inverters that readers might find interesting. Here's the link:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10033260-54.html?tag=mncol;title

Retsel

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chemrat Jul 22, 2008 @ 5:06 pm | delete

Thanks for your kind comments. I'm very impressed with how useful your lenses are! You might be interested in some of my other sites also. Best wishes, Jim

Chemistry for a sustainable world
Gather.com (which also features my environmental articles and photos)
Sustainability and the environment group
and the lens that features you,
Solar Power lens