This is the most environmentally friendly way to produce power. Solar electric modules last decades, and offer a 20 to 25-year warranty on power. Best of all, you will help show the world a better way. You get more power for less cost than from any other source. You need a stream flowing over 10 gallons per minute, and elevation drop of 20 to 100 feet.
Wind can work along with solar generation to provide more uniform power input.
That is about 1 to 5 or at most 10 kilowatt hours of electricity on a sunny day. Rather than major life-style changes, we learn to consume a small percentage of the power others use, while keeping most advantages electricity offers. Just five kilowatt hours per day run our Backwoods Solar business, shop, and home. The business uses three computers all day, lights for 4 workers, photocopy machine, postage machine, phone, fax, and paging system, business communication radio, electrical workbench, one room evaporative cooler, a small window air conditioner, and central vacuum system. The amount of power a solar electric system collects depends on the natural energy resources at your location and on how much equipment you install to gather that energy.