Get Off the Grid: How to Make Solar Energy From Junk Parts.

I wanted to get back on the subject of renewable energy resources.  With our energy crisis with BP and other fossil fuel pollutions, I was searching for an inexpensive way to make portable solar panels that would work for rental properties.  Last night I found a website which illustrated how to take salvage material and turn it into an improvised power cell that can recharge batteries and low power equipment.

I find a lot of excuses that solar power is not ready and it is too expensive.  These excuses give little reason to toss solar power as an option.  Anytime a reduction of energy dependence on fossil fuel can be found the planet smiles a little bit and your pocketbook saves a lot.  If everyone in America fitted some sort of alternate energy combination for their homes the demand for electricity from the power company’s grid would plummet.  In fact, if done correctly the power company would have to pay the individuals for power. 

I found a lot of websites that where selling information kits saying you can make solar panels for under $100-200.  I did not have the $49.95 available to buy this information, however.  But this site was free and the author is ingenious using surplus items.

A lot of good information found here at Instructables.com to make the solar panels.  Another good article on this site is making rain barrels to utilize roof rainwater for watering gardens.  There are a lot of ingenious designs that an enterprising Americans can put to good use as individuals.  We need to rekindle this energy to solve our pollutions problems and energy needs.  Conserving water is another good conservation practice.  There are a lot of countries where citizens do not have clean water to drink.

This brings to mind the plight of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador which has been polluted by Texaco Oil, currently owned by Chevron.   Exxon and BP seem small next to the ecological disaster Texaco Oil perpetrated; they dumped waste oil in the rivers and headwaters of the Amazon River from 1964 to 1992!  For 15 years Chevron has battled in courts against settling this disaster in the Amazon forest.  The Amazon rain forest is an area that supplies the world with 20% of the Earth’s oxygen, yet Chevron still refuses to settle the dispute or clean up their mess.  I guess the world will have to literally hold their breath.

Please do not hold your breath.  Please get off the grid.  Tell those uncaring, corporate oil tycoons and fossil fuel polluting devils that their dirty energy is no longer required.