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Environment & Energy

exboyfil

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1. I was curious about heating

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 07:20 AM

Feb 2014

your own house with solar power. A solar panel yields approximately 10 watts/sq. foot. Space heaters should be sized with wattage 10x that of sq ft. of the room. So you need to have approximately 10x for immediate heating and probably 25x with an energy storage system.

We have gone big in wind here in Iowa. One of the leaders of the effort from Iowa State discussed how the big problem is that the available future wind resources are not where the people are located, and current methods of transmitting the energy hurts the efficiency.

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