PV Gap

Kevin Said:

India's first solar power light?

We Answered:

The barefoot college have been producing solar powered lighting since 1986
http://www.barefootcollege.org/prog_sola…

'though without such a big marketing buget (to get suitable endorsements) you might never have heard of all the work they do:-

"Barefoot solar engineers have installed solar photovoltaic (SPV) home lighting systems and fabricated produced solar lanterns across 10 states of India. The results include:

Solar electrifying 300 adult education centres.
Solar electrifying 870 schools across the country.
3530 solar lanterns manufactured at the College.
28 remote and inaccessible villages in Ladakh have 40 Kws of solar panels that provide three hours of light in the bleakest winter to 1530 families.
In Leh and Kargil districts, solar energy initiatives have saved a total of 97,000 litres of kerosene.
392 rural youth including women trained as barefoot solar engineers with absolutely no aid from urban professionals.
350 villages and hamlets(clusters) have been covered where a total number of 12000 households have been solar electrified.
195,000 litres of kersoene saved, by replacing generators and oil lanterns with solar power.
All solar panels have been installed, maintained and repaired by the village people without the assistance of any paper qualified engineer."

Emma Said:

Would it not be more sensible to power the international Space Station with a nuclear reactor instead of?

We Answered:

That will give you heat. Now what would you do with it?

If you built a nuclear reactor system to generate electricity, it would need to be monitored and controlled 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even when it's shut down you need a skeleton crew to operate it and monitor/control chemistry. It would keep the astronauts too busy to do anything else.

Thomas Said:

Does the International Space Station use solar or Blutz Waves?

We Answered:

Who told you the ISS is on the moon? It's in orbit around the Earth, about 250 miles up. The moon is 250,000 miles up. Your "Blutz Waves" are a fictional construct from Japanese Magna comics. They come from the imagination of a TV writer, not science.

Get your feet back on the ground, boy.

Billie Said:

solar power / wind tower fences ?

We Answered:

Solar power would be OK for powering cameras on a fence. But DC power and low voltage AC power lose energy traveling long distances. Also solar panels should be slanted up to face the sun, which would also make them easier to climb. Wind towers are just big posts, so it would be wind towers + a regular fence.