Thread: Solar electricity production

thats a joke right......

my favorite bit would have to be the technical details page for it...

Originally Posted by mcrover

I thought it was just me, but again, I'd be happy to be actually prooven to be wrong and have these sort of systems tested properly and the results posted.

As far as I know at this point in time is that the only free energy is between say some solar panels or the like after you have recouped installation costs and when they need maintenance.

So really there is no such thing as "Free" energy.

But I didnt read all of that as it was driving me nuts trying to get my head around his own version of the english language so there may be something I have missed.

Free energy, has nothing to do with cost/$, it means that you get more energy out than you put in - which is of course, completely impossible. Various people have claimed to have invented verious types of free energy systems:
water powered cars/engines
the device in the link above - and several other similar battery/magnet/electical devices
Flywheels systems and the like

All energy generation mechanisms in existence, are usually no more than 50% efficient. e.g. a coal power station only manages to turn 40% of the chemical energy in coal into electrical energy, and the best solar panels turn about 30% of the solar energy which strikes them into electrical energy.