There are many unique kinds of solar panel systems that you can use about your house, but, regardless of the kind of system you use, you may find that investing in a solar panel is one of the finest factors you are able to do to help safeguard the environment. You could support to lessen the amount of pollution released into the air each year, and you might come across that doing something as smaller as installing a property panel can also aid to cut down your month-to-month fees significantly.

Performance relies upon on 3 factors:

1. The form of program utilised

2. The location of one’s dwelling

3. The location of your solar panel.

Panel efficiency depends on the sort of program you use, merely simply because each and every solar panel has a distinct amount of energy that it can produce. Efficiency also depends upon the location of your dwelling, as you might discover that your house solar panel method will work create much more energy in case you live in a hot and sunny climate than it would when you lived in a cold and windy climate. Finally, efficiency is dependent on where you location the device, as placing it in an open space where it could absorb the sun’s rays all day long will allow you to gather as significantly power as achievable.

Here are the three primary kinds of solar panels that you simply can uncover commercially:

1. Solar systems employed about farms tend to provide energy to power the several farm machines, feed the livestock, and do quite a few other tasks that need electricity. These agriculture-oriented solar systems are able to create more energy than a residence solar power program.

2. Industrial and commercial systems are created to capture power in massive quantities, as they’re installed to present energy for a business or factory. These solar systems generally use the most effective solar cells to collect energy, and these systems are a lot larger than a residential power program

3. Residential power units are simply utilized to power houses around the globe, and these systems often be much more compact than the larger industrial, commercial, or agricultural solar power systems. Passive home power systems only collect power as needed, even though active solar power systems collect energy all day lengthy to give power to the residence.

These 3 types of solar panels are utilized in distinctive situations, but you are going to locate that your residential power program will likely be the ideal thing to make use of to power your house. No longer will you will need to rely on the electric business for your power; thanks towards the great household solar panel systems you are able to buy on line you happen to be in a position to power your own personal residence using the power of the sun.

I expect that you have already read that the Government in Germany has decided to get out of nuclear power completely within 10-1/2 years – by the end of 2022. I am proud that my Government (I am a German citizen, resident in Switzerland) has made a firm decision – and an irrevocable decision at that – on such a critical matter. For me personally, I am not strongly and irrationally against nuclear power, but it is obvious that – with only three major failures in 30 years – that nuclear power is not safe to use on this earth. As I wrote on the GEOCOGEN blog, I think that the World was extremely lucky that the disaster at Fukushima happened in Japan. I cannot think of a country more qualified to handle such an emergency as Japan. While I am not wishing bad luck on the Japanese, I think if such an accident had occurred in another country, almost any other country, the results for the World would have been much, much worse.

It is important for national economies that such decisions as the one made by the German Government, and more recently the Swiss Government as well, are essentially irreversible. The reason is that business, and therefore the national economies, need to have firm foundations on which to make major decisions. Investments in new technologies are not something that will bear fruit next week or next month or even next year. A new major power plant, regardless of the source of the energy, will take 7-10 years to complete, including fuel supply, etc., and be placed on the grid. If rules and regulations are changing every 2 or 3 years, no responsible energy supplier will be willing to plan ahead and invest the major amount of money that is necessary for a major power plant.

Another factor that is now in discussion in many different forums is – simply put – how do we replace the electricity that is presently being produced in nuclear power plants within the next 10+ years? The more-or-less automatic answers to date have been “more renewable energy” and “save energy.” I have not yet seen a responsible assessment of exactly how these massive amounts of electricity will be produced and/or saved. But I am open to suggestions! One massive replacement option, from my viewpoint, is the GEOCOGEN Power Plant which is supposed to produce 1 GW (1’000 MW) of elecricity in addition to 3 GW of thermal energy for district heating or perhaps producing an additional 400MW of electricity. The count in Germany, if I am not mistaken, is 8 reactors are already out of service, 6 more that will be stopped by the end of 2021, and a final 3 that will be stopped at the end of 2022. Assuming a round number of 1GW electricity per reactor, and also assuming that the 8 reactors that are already out of service have already had their production replaced somehow, that leaves an additional 9 GW of electricity that must be replaced or saved by the end of 2022.

On the basis of a major power plant, the capital cost should be somewhere around €6’000 million (€6G) each, or about €40-50G over 11 years, probably peaking in 2018-2021. Can we do that? I think it is possible – replacements and major repairs and overhauls for the existing nuclear facilities would most likely have consumed close to the same amount of money, but it may have been planned as expenses (and would be written off against profit for tax reasons) instead of capital. That probably depends on how “creative” the accounting advisors have been.

In any case, it will be a challenge that the German economy has not really faced up to since the post-war reconstruction era. I think it will be an exciting time to be living and working in Germany!

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GEOCOGEN Project – Part 2

Some Basic Information and Some History

Now, you’re probably saying to yourself – “ah ha, another scam, producing quote – free – unquote energy with no fuel and no CO2. I wonder what the catch is to this one.”

Well, the “catch” to this one is that there are virtually no catches! Let me try to explain it to you piece by piece.

First, let’s look at the example of geothermal energy that you are probably familiar with – a household heat pump. What the heat pump does is use the soil near your house as a heat sink or as heat storage – in the winter, there’s enough heat there in the soil that it’s possible to extract some of it and use it to heat your house. Now, that’s not free, because the electricity to make the system circulate takes back some of the free energy you are using, but it’s still a good deal.

Now maybe you don’t understand the details, but I expect you do understand the general principles – you move heat from the ground to the house to heat the house. And what you use in the soil is a coil of pipe or tubing that lets the heat move from the soil to the fluid inside the pipe.

Okay, now let’s take that one step farther and go to a larger scale. Instead of going just a few meters down – let’s say 10 feet – let’s go down deep enough to where there is some real heat available – say 500 feet, or how about 1500 feet. But it’s all but impossible to put the pipe coils that deep – you would have to dig out the complete hole about two acres around the pipe that comes down and goes up to the surface.

Think about that – a hole about two acres on the surface that goes down 1500 feet! That’s some hole!

Well, the petroleum geologists came up with an answer that comes out of the oil fields. In some oil fields where the oil is very viscous, it is possible to drill a matrix of wells to put high-pressure steam down into the rock formation, and because the rock is permeable (that means it has small passageways in it that oil and gas and steam can go through), you can slowly heat up the oil to make it flow easier and push it through to other wells where you can pump it up to the surface.

These operations can be organised in fields that are anywhere between maybe 1000 feet deep and 1-1/2 miles deep. The value of the extra oil that is recovered this way makes it economically possible to do this.

To be continued…

Thanks for looking in,

Jimmy Craig
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Sue & Craig Websites

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GEOCOGEN Project – Part 2

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