Solar produces 320 BTU/h/ft² at best?

First posted
Saturday January 9, 2010 09:21
Updated
Wednesday February 10, 2010 13:25

We may be on to a case of solar generated electricity fraud in New Mexico. 1 kWh = 3412.14163 BTU.

China solar emails.

We feel somewhat guilty spending $42.74 on August 3, 2009 on the solar panel and not have used it.

Especially for something practical.

China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels.

Making Solar Power Portable Published: February 8, 2010 Mr. Smith bought a portable solar charger he could prop up in the window of a plane. “I’d plug it into my phone and when we landed, I was ready to go again.”

Shill

• A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.

Solar Firm Selects Duke City High-End Panel Company May Bring Up to 500 Jobs Albuquerque Journal By Michael Hartranft Wednesday February 10, 2010.

Solar Distinction Inc., a company backed gby the Albuquerque-based Noribachi Group, is considering three sites in the city. Chief exectutive officer Farzad Dibachi. Governor Bill Richardson involved too.

Gov. Bill Richardson said Tuesday the company's decision shows New Mexico is "becoming the center of North America's solar industry." POSTED: 6:07 pm MST February 9, 2010 UPDATED: 6:20 pm MST February 9, 2010

February 9, 2010 Albuquerque, NM, USA: Solar Distinction to Set Up 25 MW Manufacturing Plant.

Non-contact pocket thermometer showing low battery. Note 33 v nominal. Measured Wednesday evening January 27, 2010 Expensive. When the non-contact pocket thermometer fails, we will measure its output. We emphasize the real world of electronics.

Mag-Lite AA battery flash light batteries were replaced with new Harbor Freight alkaline batteries: battery 1, 1.625 volts; 2, 1.623 volts measured Tuesday January 19 2010. The sun is not up at 07:11 in Albuquerque and the Harbor Freight solar panel is putting out over 13 volts. Read Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association comment on solar panel voltage output. Our non-contact pocket thermometer was bought for about $8.95. We do not attest to its accuracy. Harbor Freight in abq visited today. It is on sale for $9.99. We can't locate the instructions. But it's lots of fun to experiment with. We bought it to locate window heat lossed in our home. Worked well. Offending window replaced with success. Plastic film placed over offending window in winter of 2008. This worked well too. Draft dogger helped to alliveate the heat loss window problem. Worked well too. Draft dogger now applied to front door. Now we are using to to possibly prove solar generation of electricity fraud. And having fun too. Harbor Freight AA alkaline battery discharge. Initial volatages 1 1.480 2 1.484 Room temperature 67.9. After 4 minutes non-contact thermometer measured 105.4 F. After 8 minutes 104.1 F. NiMH battery 2 = 1.251 v, 4 = .0001 measured Friday January 15, 2010 11:20. Looks like 4 is , in fact, is operating in failure mode. Insolation Mag-Lite 2 AA flash light looked to have full illimination when tested about 08:00 Friday January 15, 2010 but quickly faded. Battery 3 1.237 v, 1 .39 and rising. Battery 1 is not at 1.171 volts. Battery 1 measured 0 volts last night. CEN-TECH multimeter left on. At 21.20 it measured .306 volts. Let's measure current flow. And buy a diode. Thursday January 14, 1020 15:04 Battery 4 was bad. Statement to the left may be false. After 7 hours 45 mintues here are batteries 1 and 3 Solar panel was putting our 19.77 volts before we attached Fuji charger. The charger is seen to be regulating at 8.0 volts with no load. Panel output has dropped to 18.2 volts. Battery 2 voltage measured 1.26 volts. Battery 4 .01 volts. Looks like battery 4 failed. We are discharing batteries 1 and 3 for solar battery charge test. We have two multimeters. A Japanese Soar and a Chinese CEN-TECH. The base of the Fuji charger has + label on the gold terminal to the right and - on the left. We measured about 7.99 to 8 volts with both meters. We will assume that the Fuji base a voltage regulator. We measured 18.19 volts coming out of the transformer with the CEN-TECH on Thursday January 14, 2010. Now we discharge 2 in 4 in preparation to attempt to solar charge. We didn't want to cut the cable to the transformer so we went to Radio Shack and bought to size n connectors for $3.51. Then we built a solar power cable. T44 wire wraps make grabbing the solar end easier. After charging Wednesday January 13, 2010 09:04 Fuji charger 2 1.37 v 4 1.38 v Green LED on Fuji charger on. No autormatic shutdown. Batteries cool. Output of transformer measured 18.35 v with no load. Harbor Freight charger 1 1.37 v 3 1.48 V Harbor Freight charger shut down after charging. Harbor Freight NiMH battery [1.2 v nominal] output before charging 1 .677 2 .682 3 .682 4 .000 The Fuji charger is exhibiting strange behavior which we are observing carefully. About 1.43 volts observed applied to each cell. The green LED first turned orange, then green soon afterward. We recall that this may be the reason we replaced it with a Harbor Freight recharger. However, it appears that about 1.4 v are being applied to the two batteries. We placed the remaining two NiMH AAs in our Harbor Freight [about $14] charger located on our surface mount bench. We logged electrical properties of all 4 AAs. Let's see results on Wednesday January 13, 2010. Here is the AA battery charger which came with a Fuji digital camera.   Here a 2X magnified scan of the bottom INPUT: 13.5 VDC is in raised type in upper right. Here's the wall transformer photo enlarged 2X. Transformer output is 18.85 volts with no load measured Tuesday January 12, 2010 16:12. Goal is to convert the charger to accept input from the solar panel ... without destroying an AA cell, the charger, or have an explosion or fire. We will experiment with and without a diode. Reason is that when the output from the solar panel is less than the battery voltage, the battery may power the solar panel, we've read. We will try to measure current flow, insert a diode then measure current flow again. Purpose of this exercise is to confirm or deny that large-scale solar electricity generation is possibly a fraud, as has been suggested.

Panel size: 8 11/16 x 17 3/4 in = 154.2 in².

Monday January 11, 2010 20:14 v = 0.1.

Monday January 11, 2010 15:51 v = 18.6.

Dust on solar panel removed. Voltage increase to 20.7 v from 20.5 and current increase to 311/312 ma.

Monday January 11, 2010 12:31 temperature of the front side of the solar panel measured 137.4 and back side 137.2 F with ambient room temperature of 69 F as measured wit CEN-TECH noncontact thermometer.

At 20.5 v, short circuit 300/310 milliamps is measured.

Monday January 11, 2010 we connected the Harbor Freight solar panel. 21.4 volts was initially measured.



About a hour later, we are reading 20.7 volts under no load.

We opened the window which caused the voltage to increase to 20.7 v. Then we pointed the panel at the sun and the voltage increased to 21.7 v.

In one of Electric 17 electric integrated Resources Planning sessions some at PNM reported that the laws of thermodynamics did not apply [N/A] to wind and solar generation of electricity. This is seen in Foil 6.



The same group that authored the 17/8 pound report is now working on solar and wind generation of electricity. And they are doing this in secret.

Point of this exercise to try to demonstrate the the laws of thermodynamics, especially the second, apply to solar generation of electricity.

Insolation is the rate of solar energy arriving on a specific flat surface perpendicular to the line of the sun. At sea level, the least possible loss is 29 to 30 percent. The maximum possible insolation is therefore about 70 to 71 percent of the solar constant, or about 320 BTU per hour per square foot. No solar collector, regardless of shape or design can deliver more than this maximum possible value, without energy input from some other source.

Note that SEDAC specifies

Sunlight 200 Btu per hour per square foot

320 BTU/h/ft² vs 200 BTU/h/ft²?

A base load power plant with a capacity of 1,000 MW might produce 648,000 megawatt-hours in a 30-day month. The number of megawatt-hours that would have been produced had the plant been operating at full capacity can be determined by multiplying the plant's maximum capacity by the number of hours in the time period. 1,000 MW X 30 days X 24 hours/day is 720,000 megawatt-hours. The capacity factor is determined by dividing the actual output with the maximum possible output. In this case, the capacity factor is 0.9 (90%).[1]

Project Focus: PNM reaches agreement for 80MW in New Mexico.

New Mexico Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy. CCAE was involved the preparation of the 17/8 pound report.
Renewable Energy Industries Association of New Mexico.
Minerals and Natural Resources Department New Mexico.
Everguard Roofing and Solar.
Western Resource Advocates.

Frequently Asked Questions – Electricity.

Average Monthly Consumption (kWh)
U.S. Total 936

SunEdison to build, run five 10MW solar power plants for Xcel unit in New Mexico.

In total, the installations will generate enough power for more than 10,000 homes in their first full year of operation

Sunday January 10, 2010 13:01 http://www.prosefights.org/scriptpollute/320/320btu.htm#hfsolar

Comments A Blip on the Sun Screen Bill Opalka new 3413 and 320 by bpayne37@comcast.net - Jan 8, 2010 - 1:15 PM Here's part of a comment posted to "The Question No U.S. Official Dare Ask" by William Pfaff on TruthDig on January 8, 2010. "[W]e see possibility of looming electricity shortages as a result of increased demand. Google ‘3412.14163’ to possibly see that alternate energy has a serious problem satisfying large-scale electric demand. We recently learned that best condition solar can only produce about 320 BTU per square foot per hour. Couple with 1kWh is approximately equal to 3413 BTU and the second law of thermodynamics to see possible problems with solar generation of electricity. Money, however, can be made selling solar electric systems to those who do not under the significance of the above two paragraphs. Google ‘pnm, renewable energy backer reach pact’ to read,“This is a crucial step for making New Mexico a leader in solar energy,” said Brian Cassutt of the Renewable Energy Industries Association of New Mexico.” Harbor Freight power inverters. | |

We're going to do some testing of LED and solar technology.

Noncontact thermometer

LED vs Maglite flashlights.

Friday January 15, 2010 10:06

3 battery Mag-Lite was in unheated garage. Heating to inside home temperature cause light output to increase.



3 battery Gordon13 LCD flashlight 75.1 F.
3 battery Mag-Lite flashlight 99.8 F.

after about 5 minutes. Batteries look weak in Mag-Lite.

We bought the noncontact thermometer to check out a cracked [inside pane double pane] window facing south. It was replaced. Problem solved.

Then we used the noncontact thermometer to check out 75W incandescent bulb v 60 watt cfl.

We replaced frequently used 75 incandescents with 100 W cfls.

So more new constuction can continue, of course?

Cfl's run lots cooler than incandescents and provide about the same amount of illumination.

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