Micro Hydro Power - Electrical Power From our Rivers
Micro hydropower is defined as a power unit which produces 100kW or less. A run of river device can produce electricity by utilizing some form of …
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Solar Parabolic Dish - Stirling Engine System as a Solar Plant for Electricity from Solar Power
The solar parabolic dish - stirling engine system is one type of concentrating solar power technology. A concentrating solar plant produces a high …
Continue ReadingGeothermal Heat Pumps for Radiant Floor Heating
The UK’s average ground temperature is around 8-13 degrees C year round having built up in the ground during the summer months. The renewable …
Continue ReadingDomestic Solar Energy Supplied From a Parabolic Dish Concentrated Solar Energy Collector
A parabolic dish is one of a number of concentrated solar power energy collectors in use today. It operates by focusing incoming solar light-rays at …
Continue ReadingConcentrated Solar Power Systems are: Parabolic Trough, Parabolic Dish Stirling Engine, Linear Fresnel, Heliostat Tower
Four concentrated solar power technologies are in various stages of development and commercialization. Those technologies, which are discussed in …
Continue ReadingPellets From Sawdust Used For Domestic Heating
The combustion of wood logs as means of heating has been around for centuries. More recently a unique method of wood burning has evolved using pellets …
Continue ReadingSolar Energy Tower Power Plants: Chimney & Heliostat Systems
Two different types of power tower solar plant show great promise. One is the solar chimney power plant, that generates wind in a solar chimney to …
Continue ReadingOffshore Wind Turbine Support Structures
Offshore wind turbines can be much larger than onshore ones, mainly due to a more constant supply of strong wind. The problem area is in the transport …
Continue ReadingOffshore Wind Turbines - How They are Installed and Operate
The wind turbine blades are fixed to the hub from where a shaft drives the generator through a gearbox. These are housed in the nacelle along with a …
Continue ReadingPhotovoltaic Solar Panels Producing Electricity for Domestic Use
There are two categories of solar panels; both using solar energy for different purposes. A water heating solar panel uses solar energy to heat water; …
Continue ReadingSolar Engery Used to Heat Domestic Water
We already benefit from solar energy, our homes being heated through windows, conservatories or specially built walls. Other devices used to exploit …
Continue ReadingElectromagnetic Spectrum in Electromagnetic Waves of Solar Radiation: Components
Solar energy is solar radiation that travels from the sun to the earth as electromagnetic waves and is then converted to useful energy. Visible …
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