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Solar Energy – How you can help?

December 5, 2009

Partial Solarization of house:
If you want to make more impact, there are solutions you can use in your home. Eg. you can convert some or all of your lights/fans/television to run on Solar power. This way, you will never need to miss your favorite TV show due to power cuts.
Here is a simple way to [...]

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Solar Electricity – Products!!

December 3, 2009

A great variety of Solar Lamps/Lanterns:
Solar Lanterns are the most common solar gadgets. They come in various sizes and brightness levels. They are portable and rechargeable through solar power (most of them can be recharged by AC power too). Some of them have option of mobile charger too.
Solar lanterns can be great replacement for kerosene/gas [...]

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Solar Electricity – Part 2

November 26, 2009

Is Solar Electricity Expensive?
For a moment, let us ignore global warming and pollution, as we always do. We can always complain that somebody else is responsible for that. Now, we are left with the most important question: How expensive is the solar electricity? What is the return of investment?
The calculation of expense is no rocket [...]

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Solar Electricity – where to start?

November 24, 2009

As mentioned in one of my previous articles, here is the first article of a series of guest posts. Author of this article is Raghavendra Ijjada, has spent more than a decade in software industry after obtaining Masters in Engineering from IISc, Bangalore. He has recently developed the hobby of experimenting with Solar Energy and [...]

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BESCOM Rocks!

March 1, 2008

BESCOM [Bangalore Electricity Supply Company] has improved a lot in terms of their customer service. I couldn’t believe that a govt organization has changed so much in the recent past. Today we had a low voltage issue, this was the same for all the houses in our lane. I picked up one of the electricity [...]

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