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Which is more effective? Which costs more? What are the space requirements..how much do they take up?

It depends what you want to do, if you want to generate electricity, concentrating solar power using parabola’s to heat water to turn a turbine is more efficient and creates ac current. But, you need a lot of them to turn water into steam to drive the turbine. There is a power plant in the United States Southwest that uses this.

Using photovoltaic cells creates DC current, so you have to hook it up to an inverter to convert it to AC current. I believe this is the cheaper solution. there is also a different power plant in the United States Southwest that uses this approach.

Arkemas dynamic R&D drives the development of these products. The goal is to provide companies in the photovoltaic sector with reliable, easy-to-use solutions that reduce manufacturing costs and improve the performance of their photovoltaic panels

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Me and a good friend were thinking of possibly in a couple of years starting a small energy business, but were not sure if we should use solar thermal collectors, solar photovoltaic panels or wind turbines? im pretty sure wind turbines wont be much use because the size required to produce enough electricity. We live in England so are not sure which would be best. which would have the bigger market and would be most needed? any questions just ask.

Thanks allot Nick

Those three businesses are listed in the order of viability, if you ask me.

Wind is right out for most residential uses – unless one lives in the country, towers are restricted, buildings impede wind flow, anyway.

Photovoltaic could be a reasonable business, depending on the subsidy situation.

Solar thermal has a chance on its own, but competition will therefore be stiff.

Whatever you decide to go into, I’d suggest working for an established firm first, to learn the business.

I’m interested in installing solar photovoltaic panels on my property. However, from mid November to mid.February we do not get direct sunlight because our property is set under a hill. Are there panels which work purely on daylight or do you require sunlight to run these panels successfully?

Modern photovoltaic panels do NOT require direct sunlight to produce power. Obviously, they will produce more power when in direct sunlight, but they still produce power under cloud cover or indirect sunlight. Contrary to previous answers, you do not need to have a way to store the energy (I.E. batteries). Most conventional systems are tied to the utility provider’s grid, and feed power back to the utility if you’re not using it all.
A bi-modal system, which uses batteries to store power, is only required if you are interested in disconnecting from the grid or if you experience excessive power outages. Bi-modal systems are, however, much more costly than conventional grid-connected systems.

Hi i am looking to install solar panels for my home but would like to try and do it on my own to save a bit of money…
But I keep reading the term "panel photovoltaic" or "photovoltaic panel" I don’t know what this means, could someone give me some advice.

Hi Tas, A Photovoltaic panel is the individual collector, or cell, electrically connected. They form photovoltaic modules, better known as a solar panel. The photovoltaic panel is arranged in arrays, or many panels fitted together in a grid.

Now I feel smart.. In basic terms panel photovoltaic means solar panel..

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It will give you a better understand of solar power works.. Hope this helps

power measurments from the moon on a navitron 1.44kW photovoltaic solar panel array –
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Photovoltaic Solar Panels/ Cells are getting more efficient & affordable. But are they safe for the environment when it is time to dispose them?

The components of a solar panel are designed to be inert: they sit exposed to the environment for 20 or more years with little degradation.
The creation of photocells is not so benign: it takes a fair amount of strong chemicals and energy to produce a photovoltaic panel. The payback, economically and in terms of environmental damage (tradeoff on energy/chemicals used to create it vs. CO2, Hg etc. reduced during cell’s lifetime), may take twenty or thirty years.

I have flat solar panels (like this http://www.sanyo.com/industrial/solar/index.cfm?productID=1232) mounted on my roof. Even after hosing them down, they still have a fine coating of pollen, etc. I really don’t want to get onto the roof to clean them, so is there anything out there that will help me get them clean from the ground? Or something to make it easier if I do have to get up there?

If yours are covered in glass, like mine, try those window washer thingies that they use in gas stations. I know you will have to climb up there to use them, but it makes it quite easy and quick to clean…

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