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This website aims to focus strictly on the broad subject of solar power for homes. That means that, up to now, we have not generally covered the more niche areas within the subject of solar power for homes. However, every so often, a breakthrough occurs in an area that is just so fantastic that we feel we simply have to bring it to your attention. That is the case with a recent innovation in the field of solar power lights.

Now solar power lights are not a new thing, but a young man has just invented a revolutionary new design for solar power lights that will blow you away!

Imagine post-it-notes that you stick on your window during the day? At night, they become fully charged up solar power lights producing ambient light for any room you choose! How cool is that?

These environmentally friendly solar power lights are called “sticky lamps”. They are as thin as a magazine cover, and they are the brainchild of a young toy designer called Keikko Lee, 26, from Hong Kong. The design for the solar power lights has recently won the Gold Prize in South Korea’s first International Design Competition.

The solar power lights stick, like post-it-notes, to pretty much anything. So it makes sense to attach them to a south facing window in the day for solar charging. They complement your solar power for homes facilities and you can then put them just about anywhere you might want ambient lighting at night time. No extra electricity is needed to run them.

The solar power lights have electroluminescent material on one side, and solar panels on the other. Similar thin-film solar panel technology is already being used quite widely in the installation of solar power for homes. These unique solar power lights will run entirely from solar power.

Using the biomimetic gecko stickiness that many designers are talking about these days, the mass production of these solar power lights would cut down on many of the raw materials traditionally connected with light bulbs. Because the lamp so very thin and light it would not need complicated manufacturing procedures and thereby it would save on raw materials.

So, not only is the product itself ecological, but the manufacturing process would be ecological too. In other words, like solar power for homes, these solar power lights would actually improve our environment. (We like that!)

In this age, when thin-film solar products are spreading like wildfire (from backpacks to clothes) solar power lights that work like post-it-notes simply make sense.

Already there is full funding for solar power lights in the form of ‘solar trees’. (They look like trees. They follow the sun around all day like trees, but by lighting up at night? … Well they are solar trees, right?)

So, it follows that surely solar power lights that act like luminescent post-it-notes could catch on too. What a great addition to any solar power for homes installation!

In our opinion, all in all, the future for this invention looks … well, if you’ll excuse the pun, it looks very bright indeed!

From Sam Deane,
your solar power for homes guide,
at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

 

 

PS. I have an idea! Why not let’s cheer it on so some entrepreneur can give these revolutionary new solar power lights the financing they deserves, and thereby take the ‘sticky lamp’ into full production soon?

You, (yes YOU!) can play a part in this. Simply bookmark this page in your favourite social bookmarking site like Digg or Reddit or technorati. At the bottom left of this article you will find a facility that allows you to do this with just one click. Sending this page as a bookmark on to all your friends will surely make a huge difference. If financiers see how many people are talking about this, then they will see that the idea behind these solar power lights will take off. Investment will surely soon follow.

So, go solar power for homes! Go solar power lights! … and … Go Sticker Lamps!

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Yesterday I mentioned advances in battery technology for the solar power for homes industry but I didn’t let you know exactly what I mean by that. So here’s a quick look at the state of battery technology in relation to the solar power for homes industry.

The quality and price of batteries has been a major problem hindering the growth of solar power for homes. Various super batteries are being developed, but prices continue be restrictive. Super batteries and cheap inverters are certainly exciting prospects, but for now they are still too expensive for most people’s tastes.

Because those who have already installed solar power for homes mostly want to keep a foothold in the grid, there continues to be resistance, even among the converted. Most homeowners who have solar power for homes already fitted don’t want to use batteries, preferring instead to take advantage of net metering. Whenever they produce more electricity than they need, rather than store it in a battery, they would rather feed the excess back into the grid system and actually get paid in the form of credits by the energy suppliers for their troubles.

Of course, net metering isn’t available everywhere, so the need for batteries could take off quicker in certain areas rather than others, but the bottom line is that, right now, any kind of new batteries are likely to have a limited take-up.

Anyone thinking of installing solar power for homes needs to look carefully at the price of the batteries they might use. While their costs are declining as the technologies become more advanced , unless you have chosen to live completely off-grid, batteries continue to be the expensive option.

You’d be surprised to find out how many small-scale solar power for homes systems actually don’t use batteries at all. All their solar electricity has to come ‘live’ from the sun. This makes it hard for your average 12kwh per day household to get by, especially at night times and during the winter months. Adding a good quality battery would make things much easier, allowing storage, and even transportation of  solar power for homes.

Enter the innovators! Let me introduce you to Sharp Corp, Daiwa House Industry Co. and Dai Nippon Printing Co., three companies who are working together for the advancement of solar power for homes. They are about to introduce a revolutionary new storage battery for solar power for homes systems by the end of next year.

Their lithium ion battery will store up to 18kwh of power. For the average homeowner that’s more than an day’s worth of solar power for homes. Their first installation will be industrial in nature, within a 15 billion yen factory being built in Kawasaki. Shortly thereafter, the industrial batteries will be introduced to the domestic market, making widespread economical battery powered solar power for homes a realistic possibility.

Meanwhile, further research and investment in solar power for homes battery technologies will come from producers of the next generation of electric vehicles. This industry is relying on solar power to take them to the next level. As that kicks in, further major advances in battery technologies are sure to be right around the corner.

The future continues to look rosy, so as we say, ‘Go Solar Power For Homes!’

From Sam Deane,
your solar power for homes guide,
at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

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Despite all the latest fantastic news about the industry that provides solar power for homes, there are still certain obstacles to its natural expansion as a primary energy source.For starters, solar power for homes can only be obtained over a certain amount of time in any given day. Now some places, up in Greenland for example, have daylight even during night time. Well that’s fine, but equally, in some other places, like during the winter in Finland, you will scarcely see the sun at all. It rises only about 15 degrees from the horizon at midday! Without question, that would make it very difficult to run solar power for homes there with our current technologies.

Even for the majority of the world’s population, solar power for homes can only be ‘harvested’ for about half of the full 24 hours. Also, those countries that enjoy four natural seasons over the year will have decent levels of sunshine only for three quarters of the year with winter being ‘the lean months’. So there are natural obstacles to the spread of solar power for homes.

While California is an ideal geographical situation for solar power for homes, not everywhere is so perfectly set up. Even in the US, other states do not enjoy such a bountiful supply of glorious sunshine. Inevitably, these places have been slower to get on board the Solar Power For Homes Express.

This, you might say, is the problem with solar power for homes. Now here is the good news for solar power for homes.

While I acknowledge that there appears to be a problem with solar power for homes, I aim to prove that, in actual fact, the problem with solar power for homes simply does not exist. Oh, and I promise, this is not going to be a magic trick!

Just as something only becomes a genuine work of art when someone puts a frame around it, something only becomes a problem when someone describes it as such. The more you see this as a problem with solar power for homes the less you see it as an opportunity for solar power for homes.

So, we’ve heard about the problem with solar power for homes and now we are going to see exactly why this problem doesn’t really exist. Instead of focusing on what we don’t have, you might want to look to what we really DO have.

For example, the radical re-writing of battery storage system technology is surprising even the scientists who are working in that field. So, while many people are still thinking it is necessary to have at least one foot stuck back in the fossil fuel world of the national grid, we at Go Solar Power For Homes, recommend severing that umbilical cord as soon as possible.

As costs fall and efficiency improves, solar power for homes will be seen as a viable alternative even in those places we mentioned above that are not so generously blessed with an abundance of sunshine through the year.

Why not start looking to ship the excess solar power for homes from places like California to places further north? Is that such a wild and crazy idea? We are currently going to extraordinary lengths and expense to pump all that oil around the planet, digging pipelines across whole countries in some cases, spilling huge tanker-loads of the stuff into the sea all too often.

Where there is a will there is a way, and there is no doubt that more and more people are looking seriously at solar power for homes as a valid alternative. There is an undeniable growing interest in the alternative energy industry.

Massively increasing the scale of solar power for homes to an industrial level in terms of global manufacturing will inevitably standardize the methods of production, thereby reducing the general costs to ensure that it seriously competes with grid based fossil fuel sourced electricity.

Add to the mix the huge breakthroughs currently being achieved within the other clean energy industries such as wind and hydro-electric, and we really do have the makings of a viable realistic alternative to those non-sustainable toxic old school fossil fuel based energy sources.

What we are looking for now is innovators, people who are willing to underpin this burgeoning industry with creative financing. I’m glad to say that we are already seeing global examples of government-led assistance in the form of grants, rebate programs and subsidies.

In order for solar power for homes to take that next essential leap, large-scale investors need to come on board. As encouragement, it is clear that there are huge long-term economic benefits to be had. There’s the ever-diminishing cost to buy solar power for homes thanks to those state subsidies and rebates mentioned earlier. Also, investors are already seeing clear evidence that tenants and buyers of those properties with solar power for homes fitted are willing to pay extra for that special “green” tag that comes with solar power for homes.

It’s all looking good for solar power for homes. We are standing on the sidelines cheering, “Go Solar Power For Homes!”

From Sam Deane,
your solar power for homes guide,
at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

 

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Of all the emerging energy options, why is it that solar power for homes seems to be rising above the rest as the most attractive for investors? 

Some look at this and see it as a no brainer. After all, the Earth receives more energy from the Sun in just one hour than the whole human race uses in a year. Solar energy comes to us free of charge. It’s sustainable, clean, easy to harness and it’s not going to run out any time soon.

Relatively speaking, the industry surrounding solar power for homes is a bit player in the whole U.S. energy marketplace. Solar power for homes accounts for about one percent of all the energy produced in the US, but this figure is changing fast. In 2000 the solar power for homes industry accounted for 300 megawatts annually. In 2006, that figure had risen to more than 2,000 megawatts according Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder in their book The Clean Tech Revolution. This rise is continuing at an even steeper incline as the years go by and the impact of the so-called ‘energy-crisis’ begins to dawn on people.

With government  subsidies, tax incentives, rebates and innovative financing strategies, it’s no wonder those in business are fashioning a range of financing strategies to ensure that the solar power for homes industry takes off in a big way.

The solar power for homes industry has become very agile, developing many unusual financing strategies. Many prospective house buyers are happy to pay more for a ‘green’ property. Add to that the attraction that, over time, solar power for homes saves a fortune.

No wonder then that the solar power for homes industry is booming. Ever since the wholesale price of oil went up to $100 per barrel people have been looking for alternatives. There is a growing voice in the US crying out for ways to keep the production of domestic energy within US national boundaries. Of course solar power for homes fits the bill perfectly.

Meanwhile, the cost to introduce solar power for homes continues to drop. Little wonder both residential and commercial consumers are seeing investment in solar power for homes as a smart move.

That’s not to say that there are no obstacles to the growth of solar power for homes. The up-front costs involved have frightened many people off. Your average US home would require an investment of between anywhere between $8,000 and $15,000 to pay for installing a full solar power for homes set up including the solar panels and all other essential equipment.

There are now two main ways to overcome this difficulty. The first is for home and small business owners to obtain a loan. You could get the loan for the solar power for homes system itself, or you could structure it into your already existing home mortgage, thereby incorporating your solar power for homes costs into your pre-existing monthly outlay.  

The other way is called a power purchase agreement (or PPA for short). Here, you don’t have to own the installed equipment so you only pay for the solar energy that is used. All the required equipment is installed by the supplier. The equipment remains the property of the installation company. Meanwhile, the customer is billed for amount of solar power for homes that is used.

“Purchase power, not panels,” says Sun Run, a California-based company offering you a 20-year contract to install and maintain their equipment at half the price of an entire solar power for homes system. You get 13.5 cents per kilowatt hour fixed rate for the full 20 year period. This is well below predicted California prices according to RenewableEngergyAccess.com, and they don’t really take into account the massive increases we can expect as fossil fuels become more and more scarce.

Can you see how this now becomes a realistic money-saving option to invest in solar power for homes? … and it’s further helped along by aggressive government action in support of the solar power for homes industry. Although minor compared to the massive amount offered by federal government to support the traditional fossil fuel energy producers, state subsidies have included the 2006 California Solar Initiative. This $3.3 billion tax incentive scheme set a goal, by 2017, to have solar power for homes fitted on one million roofs across California. An outline of US-wide incentive programs can be seen at the American Solar Energy Society website.

With government-backed assistance and innovative financing, investors in solar power for homes can clearly see the opportunity for profit. With numerous rebates, tax credit schemes, incentives, subsidies and innovative financing methods, it is becoming cheaper to install solar power for homes. Meanwhile, landlords and home owners can see that they can charge a lot more because of the “green” tag.

As the solar power for homes technologies continue to improve dramatically, the amount of sunlight required to give back the necessary solar power for homes is reduced. Thereby, solar power for homes becomes a realistic option in more and more US states and other nations abroad. Clearly, the future is bright. The future is solar power for homes!

From Sam Deane,
your solar power for homes guide,
at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

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Hi Folks!

Here’s some more great posts about solar power for homes that I thought you might like to look at.

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I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did!

From Sam Deane,
your solar power for homes guide,
at www dot go solar power for homes dot com.

 

 

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Here is a report on CNN about solar power for homes and its impact on energy consumption. This CNN video really shows how, without question, solar power for homes really does make a difference. The more people there are introducing solar power for homes into their lifestyle the better for the planet, and as can be seen here, it really does not have to negatively impact the quality of your life.

Introducing solar power for homes actually enables people to become more concsious of the other areas where their use of energy is not efficient, thereby enabling them to cut back on the wastage and make real savings instead. No wonder we say “Go solar power for homes!”

 

 

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