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Lasts 8-10 hours with full charge, depending on sunlight and time of year. Rotating red, green and blue colors. Sun charges battery by day, turns on automatically at night. No wiring required, costs nothing to operate. Metal stake is approximately 32″ tall. Rechargeable battery is included.
BUY: Outdoor Solar Light Stake, 2 In 1 Hummingbird
Solar energy is likely the largest, single answer to this nation’s dependence on fossil fuels. With enough solar energy, U.S. citizens can ignore the threat of Peak Oil, the more visible threat of oil embargoes from Mideast countries, the rising cost of fossil fuels and the air pollution that is making large cities virtually uninhabitable.
Getting to that goal isn’t easy. There are a lot of solar incentives out there, from utility companies sponsoring solar installation to local, state and federal governments offering funding or tax rebates to homeowners installing a photovoltaic (PV) system. Unfortunately, these incentives are all over the board, vary from state to state and even region to region depending on the utility, are rarely publicly advertised to make homeowners aware of their existence, and change from one year to the next depending on the whims of Congress.
Most homeowners, when presented with the 10,000 hoops required to get some kind of incentive package, shrug their shoulders and walk away. Life is complicated enough. If president-elect Barack Obama truly wants to meet his eco-friendly energy goals – five million “green collar” jobs, negative oil imports in by 2018, and 10 percent of energy coming from renewable sources like solar – he will first need to translate this mishmash of incentives into a cohesive, comprehensive and comprehensible national policy.
What if, for example, instead of searching DSIRE’s (Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy) map for your state, then searching the more than 100 entries for a program that matches your qualifications and expectations, you could simply rely on the fact that state, regional and utility incentives all offered a specific program?
Better yet, what if an agency of the federal government, like the U.S. Department of Energy, took over all incentives and offered a flat rebate not subject to change every time Congress was in session? Can you imagine the numbers of individuals who – currently stymied by a maze of regulations and stipulations – would flock to install solar energy panels? I can, and it would give the solar energy industry a boost not seen since Henry Ford first introduced an affordable automobile.
You can make this happen by writing your representative and demanding a uniform, timeless, renewable energy incentive program. Better yet, join a social networking site and start your own petition, or contact renewable energy advocate sites (the American Solar Energy Society is a good start) and ask them to start a petition asking Obama and his transition team to develop such a program.
The future of solar energy is you, and tomorrow is already here.
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This wonderfully detailed outdoor garden or porch statue of 5 flittering dragonflies features solar powered flashing LED lights in the dragonflies’ bodies. Clear plastic tubes leading from the stone to the dragonflies are flexible and twistable, allowing you to set the dragonflies up any way you want. The lights turn on automatically in dark conditions, and last up to 10 hours under a full charge. The lights are white LEDs, and cast a nice bright flash under dark conditions. Made of cold cast resin and plastic, the statue measures up to 15 inches tall, depending on how they are positioned. It’s hand-painted, and shows great detail.This statue makes a wonderful gift for any dragonfly lover.
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Size L x W x H 9.00″ x 15.2″ x 28.7″
BUY: Super Bright Long Life Wireless Stainless Steel Butterfly Solar Garden Light
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*Solar powered
*No Wiring
*Powered by the sun
*Fast and easy to install
*Energy saving
*Recharged by solar panels under sunlight
*Light turns on automatically when dark
*Super bright LED for brighter light output
*Rechargeable Ni-Cd AA battery (included)
*Safe water resistant
*CE certified
*LED bulb never burns out
*Up to 10 hours of light when dark
*Corrosion resistant
*LEDs can last up to 100,000 hours
*Batteries are rechargeable and should last for approximately 2 years before replacing
*Ideal for areas where conventional electrial supply is not available
*Product size 5″(W) on Stone, Dragonflies 3″ (W). Approx. 12″~20″ on LED strings
Solar lighting indeed works well in the garden. You may use solar garden lights for lighting the gardens and yards adjoining your house. These lights are easier to install, are maintenance free and they cost you nearly nothing to function. All you need to bear is the cost for replacing those batteries that power solar lights, since they use sunlight for this purpose. You may set the solar garden lights to function automatically at night. They stay lit for more than 9 hours.
Individuals need to position solar lights in the area where there is ample supply of sunlight in the day. Solar lighting might not work well if the pathway or garden is shaded. Solar garden lights may work six to twelve hours in the evening depending on how much sunlight it receives in the day. These lights have built-in photosensor. The photosensor turns on the lights when it grows dark.
Solar garden lights stay lit until sun rises or the battery depletes, whichever is earlier. If you take proper care, solar panels are likely to last for twenty years. Solar lighting highlights certain elements of the landscape or illuminates the dark paths. It is not easy for thieves to steal the solar lights since they are installed permanently on a patio or deck using a screwdriver making it hard to remove them.
In the spring and fall, when you arrive home early evening, often, it just starts growing dark or turns out dark completely. With solar lighting, as energy saver that you install in your garden, you comfortably watch over your garden. You can also water it. People usually prefer watering their garden in the evening hours, since evaporation here does not create any problem. Solar garden lights create an ambience of safety and warmth.
solar lights is indeed the right choice for your garden, entry path or deck, as it creates a glow. Your garden looks beautifully illuminated and is a center of attention for passers-by. As you step into your garden, you get the feel as if you are at home. These spotlights offer a spectacular look to plain trees at night and increase the value of your property.
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By night, these solar-powered lights will add useful, decorative illumination for your patio, garden, walkway or driveway. By day, they’ll punctuate your landscape with copper finish accents. The solar cell will provide light for up to 8 hours on a full charge. Solar energy charges the built-in battery and the light automatically turns on at dusk.
DIY solar power is quickly becoming the buzz word in environmental circles. Householders are becoming fed up with the problems that come with employing conventional energy sources.Tired of rising costs, changes to the way we live and in extreme even being subjected to rationing, a lot of home owners are turning to the newest trend in power production DIY Solar Power Kits.
A large number of companies are currently now manufacturing homemade energy handbooks, available for instant download over the net, which walk you through step by step instructions on how to assemble the components for your own DIY solar power kits. The blueprints are priced around $40 – $60 and the components that make up the kit will come to a cost of approximately $200, a lot more affordable than purchasing and having a traditional solar system installed. (The costs can run into the thousands).
The blueprints usually come as a instruction handbook and video series that has simple to follow diagrams, instructions and examples.
Having put together and implemented my own personal DIY Solar Power Kits, I can confirm that the process is an easy and hassle free job, and the results in terms of saving money are stunning.
The independence a DIY solar Power Kit, allows you to feel that you are no more tied the grid and their spiraling fees for your energy needs is a liberating one indeed. How long has it been since you can leave a room for an a few hours and leave the television on with no worry for cost or environmental impact? As solar power is renewable and does not cost anything you can afford to be more liberal with your power usage.
Many use solar energy to supplement the power company supply, this gives them the advantage to avoid power outages (very useful for staying connected online) and particularly in times of high temperature days and the power failures that come hand in hand, you will be able to keep cool by continuing to keep fans running as well as some air conditioning units.
Jon Elsdon is a Energy Consultant and Environmentalist. Jon is editor of DIY Solar Power Check here for free reprint licence: DIY Solar Energy Kits – Homemade Energy Review.
Use of solar energy as an alternative to fossil fuels has been widely discussed in recent years. Heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and, as a consequence, dependency on scarce resources usage of which has a negative impact on environment led to search of alternative sources of energy. Passive solar design has a number of advantages when it comes to alternative energy solutions due to low cost and high level of efficiency.
Integration of passive solar design reduces the need for mechanical heating, cooling, and artificial lightning during the daytime which is cost efficient in the long run, minimizes energy consumption and, as a consequence, dependency on non-renewable sources of energy, is environmentally clean, and can be easily implemented independent of the geographic location. The debates on the issue are ongoing. And even though there is some rationality to claims of opponents of solar design solutions, their perspective on the issue is short sighted, since aside from purely economic benefits, opponents fail to consider dependency on non-renewable sources of energy such as fossil fuels which will gradually become an economic burden for the vast majority of countries throughout the world.
Passive solar design of buildings does involve more initial spending, since it includes such passive solar features as thermal mass, increased glazing and overhangs. However, due to the fact that buildings with solar design require substantially less mechanical heating and cooling, annual reduced maintenance costs will be realized over the whole life time of the building. Going even further then this, since individual design of buildings is not required, but largely it will vary depending on the climate zone; cost per building will reduce, as the number of building with integrated passive solar design increases.
The experiment proved to be very effective in China. Country was subdivided into five major climate zones and comfort zones based on the climate zones have been developed. Further, bioclimatic building design charts have been developed, and finally, the system was implemented. The results were astonishing: in Guangzhou due to integrated natural ventilation mechanical air-conditioning would have to function only 17% of its initial work load, while Kunming initially required mechanical heating 80% of the time in a year, now supplementary heating is required only 10% of the year, in Beijing required mechanical heating would can be limited to 30% through with the passive solar design used during the construction process. This is a perfect solution for China, where fossil fuels are especially scarce as compared with other countries. A similar experiment took place in North Cyprus and implementation of passive solar design also proved to be efficient on practice.
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The garden Plastic Solar Light with Wall Mount has the following features: Solar powered; No Wiring; Powered by the sun; Fast and easy to install; Energy saving; Recharged by solar panels under sunlight; Light turns on automatically when dark; 2 Super bright LED for brighter light output; Rechargeable Ni-Cd AA battery (included); Safe water resistant; CE certified; LED bulb never burns out; Up to 10 hours of light when dark; Corrosion resistant; LEDs can last up to 100,000 hours; Batteries are rechargeable and should last for approximately 2 years before replacing; Ideal for areas where conventional electrial supply is not available; Diameter 7-inch by 21′-inch(H)
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