Questions from Readers: Read the Answers in the comments, or comment yourself! I have in mind a small solar panel that could be plugged into a wall socket. Do I need a converter or some kind of interference between the two power sources so there aren’t any unpleasant explosions? I don’t know much about this [...]
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Can I plug a solar panel into a wall socket to lower my electric bill?
Posted by admin on April 9th, 2011
Posted in DIY Green Energy FAQ 
Tags: explosions, interference, power sources, Solar Panel, wall socket 
4 Comments »Building and Living Off the Grid in an Idaho Strawbale Home
Posted by admin on November 4th, 2010
Deb McKinnon and Tom Ordway built a straw bale home off the grid near Princeton, Idaho in the 1990s. Learn how they constructed their home and chose their power sources. Content includes lots of construction shots and finished interior photos. Learn what they learned and how they’d do things differently next time.
Posted in Off Grid Living Tags: 1, Al, and, bale, build, building, built, co, construction, do, E., ed, environment, Finished, green, grid, home, Hot, how, in, interior, is, living, living off the grid, NC, next, non, of, off, off the, off the grid, on, or, power, power sources, pr, Prince, public, radio, shed, source, sources, St, straw, straw bale, sustainability, sustainable, the, thin, time, to, tom, WA, way 2 Comments »Does living "off the grid" just refer to solar power or wind mills?
Posted by admin on August 30th, 2010
Questions from Readers: I’m looking for a piece of property in northern Fla./southern Ga. I want to make it as self sufficient as possible. Growing my own vegetables, raising my own protein sources and such. I’ve looked into solar power and wind mills as power sources. Both seem feasible but which is best? Also is [...]
Posted in DIY Green Energy FAQ Tags: Al, and, be, best, co, do, DOE, E., ed, el, for, from, GE, google, grid, in, is, it, les, lf, Life, living, Look, make, MAKE IT, mill, north, Northern, NY, NYT, of, off, off the, off the grid, on, or, out, own, pi, plan, power, power sources, pr, property, protein, protein sources, quot, rest of my life, script type, self, Sol, solar, solar power, source, sources, South, St, sufficient, text javascript, the, thin, to, ty, US, Vegetable, vegetables, WA, Win, wind, wind mills 2 Comments »Ecoscan: Solar Energy
Posted by admin on June 4th, 2010
Kenya faces huge challenges in plugging an energy deficit and there have been calls for diversification of the country’s power sources. The increasing popularity of solar technology has seen it being touted as a possible long term solution to reducing the electricity deficit here. And as Sheila Sendeyo reports in this weeks edition of eco [...]
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