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The Department of Energy, when not building atomic devices or making
radioactive frogs, publishes an interesting and "illuminating" paper
called Photovoltaics: Basic Design Principles and Components. It gives
some rules of thumb for calculating and selecting panel sizes. It is
sobering see how hard you have to work for a few Watt Hours when the
stuff that comes out of the wall is only pennies per Kilowatt Hour.
It is at http://www.eren.doe.gov/erec/factsheets/pvbasics.html
I suggest candles whenever possible -- and they have more "atmosphere"
at night. We have a little folding aluminum candle lamp from the
camping store that we hang from the boom at night and it gives plenty of
light and burns a long time. I'm not quite sure where to mount the fire
extinguisher for this particular application though.....
Regards
Rye
The Amazing Grace II
HMS 18 Short Rig
Springfield VA (Potomac r.)
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The Department of Energy, when not building atomic devices or making
radioactive frogs, publishes an interesting and "illuminating" paper called
Photovoltaics: Basic Design Principles and Components.
It gives some rules of thumb for calculating and selecting panel sizes.
It is sobering see how hard you have to work for a few Watt Hours
when the stuff that comes out of the wall is only pennies per Kilowatt
Hour.
It is at http://www.eren.doe.gov/erec/factsheets/pvbasics.html
I suggest candles whenever possible -- and they have more "atmosphere" at night. We have a little folding aluminum candle lamp from the camping store that we hang from the boom at night and it gives plenty of light and burns a long time. I'm not quite sure where to mount the fire extinguisher for this particular application though.....
Regards
Rye
The Amazing Grace II
HMS 18 Short Rig
Springfield VA (Potomac r.)
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