How To Make A Professional Looking Solar Panel

How do you make a professional looking homemade solar panel? There are a couple things that are very important if you want your solar panel to look good. If you do these things with each solar panel you build they will look quite good. Read more »

Parts To Build Solar Panels

What are the parts to build solar panels? It may or may not surprise you that there are very few parts needed to build solar panels. Obviously, the most important part is the solar cells so lets start there. Read more »

Making Wind Generator Blades

Making wind generator blades is a great way to save money on the first wind generator that you build. My recommendation to everyone is start out with a pair of homemade blades and than when your wind generator has saved you a bunch of money move up to a good set of fiberglass blades. Lets take a look at how to build wind generator blades. Read more »

Solar Cell Tabbing Wire

What is tabbing wire and why is important when building solar panels? Before we get into that let's take a look at why we need tabbing wire when building solar panels. Read more »

DIY PVC Wind Generator Blades

When you're first starting out with a wind genertor I recommend DIY PVC wind generator blades. The reason being that they are quite easy to build and they can be built fairly cheaply as well. Read more »

Thin Film Solar Catches Up To Silicon!

You did read that. The highly inefficient thin film solar cells have almost caught up to the standard silicon solar cells. Although these cells aren't going to be coming into production anytime soon, but the future might hold a drastic price decrease for solar cells.

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have come up with a new formulation for thin film solar cells that can compete with the efficiency of the common silicon based solar cell. Read more »

Wind Generator Plans

I build a wind generator to supplement the power produced by the solar panels. Finding wind generator plans that were easy to read and complete turned out to be quite a bit harder than I expected. After trying out a bunch of different plans and finding them all to be garbage I decided to make my own wind generator plans. Read more »

Homemade Solar Panels

If I was to choose between homemade solar panels and store bought solar panels I'll choose the homemade ones any day. They look as good as store bought ones but they're a lot cheaper. It's quite shocking how much you can save by building them yourself. Makes me wonder why the price tag of solar panels is so high. Read more »

Building Solar Panels

Why should you look into building solar panels? For me it wasn't really about how much money I would save. I just wanted to get rid of the monthly mortgage payment to the electric company. It seemed like energy rates kept going up and up and it doesn't look like they will be coming down anytime soon. Read more »

Tabbing Solar Cells

You may or may not know what tabbing solar cells is. That's ok, I'm going to explain the whole process here. All solar cells need to be tabbed before you can use them in a solar panel. Let's take a look at the tabbing process and why it's important. Read more »