Residential Solar Panels

April 22, 2010 at 6:06 pm | Residential Solar Panels
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This shows how to solder solar cell ribbon to solar cells. Part 1. For more information, see
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=235
See more info about constructing our solar panels here: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Solar_Panels_at_Factor_e_Farm
We are looking for people who are interested in building the world’s first replicable open source self-sufficient decentralized high appropriate tech permaculture village – to transcend survival and evolve [...]

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April 10, 2010 at 7:29 am | Residential Solar Panels
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Corvallis High School’s video submission for Wal-Mart’s Earth Day Every Day Challenge.
Students have set a goal of installing a 100 kW solar electric array on our building. Through this video, we got the most votes, and WON the $20,000 Grand Prize! Visit http://www.earthdayeverydaychallenge.com/ for info on the Grant.
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February 1, 2010 at 10:24 am | Residential Solar Panels
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This shows how to solder solar cell ribbon to solar cells. Part 2. For more information, see
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=235
See more info about constructing our solar panels here: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Solar_Panels_at_Factor_e_Farm Learn more about similar projects at OpenFarmTech.org
We are looking for people who are interested [...]

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January 13, 2010 at 3:21 am | Residential Solar Panels
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Here we continue documentation of the open source tractor (LifeTrac) and the CEB press (Factor e Liberator) as built and used at Factor e Farm. We also show how we made solar panels from solar cells. More info: http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/
We are looking for people who are interested in building the world’s first replicable open source self-sufficient [...]

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January 11, 2010 at 8:01 am | Residential Solar Panels
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This shows how to solder solar cell ribbon to solar cells. Part 3. For more information, see
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=235
See more info about constructing our solar panels here: http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Solar_Panels_at_Factor_e_Farm
We are looking for people who are interested in building the world’s first replicable open source self-sufficient decentralized high appropriate tech permaculture village – to transcend survival and evolve [...]

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November 10, 2009 at 3:44 pm | Solar Hot Water Collector
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A lot of people question me if heating water with solar energy is effective. This is a demo of a small collector turning snow into steam.
This demo collectors, 4 tubes are only 2 feet long and the total size is equilivant to just one 8 foot tube in a full size collector. [...]

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