Solar, just like all renewable power-technologies, has the constant challenge of price competiveness with fossil fuel electrical production. These traditional sources of electricity (by far and away) lead the market place, with emerging technologies struggling in their attempts to drive their costs down, and output efficiency up. Solar power production is the only emerging technology [...]
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SOLAR POWER STORAGE USING MOLTEN SALT
A major deterrent to the development of solar power generation, is the ability to store on a large-scale, the electricity produced during the day for use at night. The only true options to this point are to use solar photovoltaics (PV’s) only when it’s sunny or to charge batteries. The charging of batteries [...]
D.I.Y., SO YOU THINK YOU NEED AN ELECTRICAL SERVICE CHANGE?
There are signs and events to look for as a service nears its life span, or has more than likely become overloaded. In this search you may want to ask yourself the following: Is your service over 50 years old? Is your main breaker under 100-amps? Are the entry wires–or riser–from the power company, to [...]
ELECTRICITY’S EFFECT ON OUR LIVES
We take for granted the greatest physical force ever harnessed to increase our comfort, productivity, quality of life and financial well-being, electricity. The huge benefits of electricity are with us constantly. We just assume that when we need it, that it will always be there. We don’t think or even care where it comes [...]
CAUSES OF ELECTRICAL ACCIDENTS
There are two groups of people who get into electrical trouble: 1. The Familiarity Breeds Contempt Group: This is the “we work with electricity all the time and we cut corners and do unsafe acts.” 2. The I Have No Idea What I’m Doing Group: But they do unsafe acts anyway. Unsafe Acts What is [...]
WHY IS ELECTRICITY DANGEROUS?
Our body’s nervous system produces electrical impulses. These neuro impulses send messages throughout our bodies. Any external electrical voltage higher than these natural impulses will disrupt the body’s electrical rhythm, causing harm to the body. The duration of this “shock” and where the external power source enters and leaves the body, will account for the [...]
SEMICONDUCTORS
The advent of extremely low voltages being used to power semiconductors has changed every aspect of our lives. The computer and the advanced technologies and knowledge that have generated from its development, run virtually everything from the pacemaker in grandpa’s chest, to exploring space. We are surrounded and controlled by electricity in one form or [...]
ELECTRICITY
If someone has a website devoted to their life’s work, they should start with their feelings on the subject. The subject of electricity. Our Lives Depend on Electricity Electricity touches every aspect of our lives, every second of the day of those lives, and will continue to do so for the rest of our lives. [...]
ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION
Simply put, electricity is energy produced from another energy form. It is the means that electric utility companies use to create the power that runs our lives. This energy transformation mostly occurs at a power station with the use of electromechanical generators driven most likely by heat engines, which are fueled by nuclear fission or [...]
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