Windborne in Puget Sound

These cool, partly cloudy spring days provided me an opportunity to see the temperature dependence of solar panel energy generation right up...

Well, almost ten. Way back in 2010, I bought a pile of 6" square solar cells , with the intention of making a bunch of solar panels. ...

Adding Big Bertha to her three smaller sisters was apparently too much for the grid-tie inverter... See that burned spot on the circuit b...

There she is, up there on the roof of my shop.  I had to mount her far enough from the edge of the roof to allow a foot path to get at th...

That's what they call it when a new telescope first sees the sky...  I think it applies just as well to a solar panel.  This is the o...

Some time back, I wrote about how the solar energy market was in a state of flux. And I may have mentioned that I bought a kilowatt's ...

Power to the people! No, wait. Free power!  Yeah, that's the ticket. Clean, free power from the sun! Well, no, not quite. Fi...