Solar panel

1m² per person is plenty for domestic even with a simple home made panel.

There is just sooooo much stuff out there...just do a search. 'Solar hot water'

When you opened this question or discussion, there was a suggested list of things to do first from CR4 , did you bother to read it? I doubt it.

Good advice for the future, try to help yourself first and just leave special points for us to answer.

What you have done here intimates to us all that you are basically either lazy or blind or both!!

Which means that you will not get much help here.....Do what the first poster suggests as a good start in life......

Another point, register, take a name for yourself and make sure that you tell us at least approximately where you live, it affects any answers we may give....

Here is another one who cannot read and fully understand what is written and hides behind the "guest" name as he is "afraid" of being fully identified in the future as the "lilly livered" person he really is!!!!...

Dear Miss Right (whose first name is always) or unidentifiable guest,

please try and open a discussion yourself one day and read the questionnaire and help file that CR4 puts there to assist people in starting a discussion in a fundamentally and accurate manner.... the idea being to HELP the person concerned to make a proper job of asking a question.....this person simply did not read it and/or take it to heart.....

I feel that that it is a sure sign of NOT being grown up to not follow this simple help (not necessarily anything to do with how old you are in years!), in the same juvenile manner as your post was.

Have a great day, in spite of me!!

There many types of Solar Panels but Photovoltaic panels are the most common for heat generation.

The sun provides nearly 1000W energy per square meter each day.

Ofcourse, how much of this you can actually use is your efficieny of the panel. The kind of sillicon you use will change the charecteristics of your solar panel. You must check your material for the amount of impurities and dopants. Also, the conductivity and heating properties...

Only a certain amount of energy, measured in electron volts (eV) and defined by our cell material (about 1.1 eV for crystalline silicon), is required to energize your panel. The orientation and agle of your panel will also add to the efficency.

A solar panel can generate 70 milliwatts per square inch * 5 hours = 350 milliwatt hours per day.

'There many types of Solar Panels but Photovoltaic panels are the most common for heat generation.'

No they're not.

Hi my friend from india I suppose ? you know so much about photovoltaics and yet say its most common for heat generation;

Its not and not likely to be in your or my lifetime ;unless you have something up your sleeve .let us know please.

for us solar collectors are the only practical source.

thanks

good really good calculation and data definitely it help to so many people.

Look up www.homepower.com October issue? (issue 121)

James

As I have stated in other "Solar Heating" threads. Get a copy of Solar Heating Design by Beckman, Klein and Duffy. This is the the first place to start.

As the other have said, PV's are NOT the best for heat generation.

Andy, the CR4 Cop, Get-em Tiger........

He's already been "got"!!

A lot of people with little knowledge make such blunders......hopefully they will read up and educate themselves!

Ah yes

I apologize.

Photovoltaics are the first thing that comes to my head.

We use these panels in our lab and thus the error...

My dear Indian friend... I am actually a biologist. It is the little I know form the work here on such solar projects. My humble apologies.

OK guys. Guest, in my mind, my experience is this. Photovoltaic panels are used to charge batteries. You either use 12 / 24 or 48 volt DC equipment or you use an inverter to change DC to AC. Heating systems would tend to drain the batteries quickly. Traditionally you use the DC to run lights, computers, the equipment which has a lower demand. As someone mentioned earlier, hot water solar may be your best bet for supplemental heat. Please ask additional questions if this is not clear.

Good luck,

James