Electricity from Solar Panels and Windmills

Electricity is being used all over the world even as you speak. Appliances, small electric gadgets, lighting and many more uses it. All of us need and uses electricity but most of us consumers have never thought about making our own electricity generated system. Many electricity consumers have already started to make their own electricity generating system for them to get freed from monthly bills and help them save money. Let us determine the possible factors and energies we can use in making our own electricity generating system.

Before proceeding to the question and answer portion of this article, let us first start by learning how electricity works. To those who do not know, the sun, the big shining star that shines on our planet during daytime is actually one source of energy. Simply put, electricity is a form of energy that is generated from the heat of the sun and any other forms of usable energies that was produced from the sun. The wind and wave's energies can also be utilized to produce electricity but only minimal power can be generated from it and the expense can be astonishingly high. An example of this is the static electricity, it makes your body hair stand up but only small electric charge is used making your body hair retain its normal position.

Energy has two forms, the renewable ones and the non-renewable ones and electricity is converted from those forms of energy. Electricity, excluding lightning can be produced from coals, oil, water power and wind power. The interesting part is we, as homeowners can actually build our own energy system at home and not rely on electricity suppliers for electricity.

Solar panel is one example of an electricity producing system which uses the energy of the sun's light and heat and produces electricity. Photovoltaic cells are what the panels are made of and it is what stores and converts the harnessed energy from the sun. The only disadvantage of the solar panels is that it is expensive and the efficiency is somehow low. Another kind of energy system is the wind turbine generators, commonly known as windmills to some, is also capable of generating electricity from the wind's power. The bigger and the more in numbers they are, the more efficient it is. This type of energy system generates electricity from the dynamo that is attached to the fans. When compared to an energy system like the solar panels, the windmills are far more efficient. But in order to for this energy system to be highly efficient, it must be paced on locations where the winds are strong.

Of course both the windmills and solar panels rely on their respective energy sources in order for them to function, without the wind and the sun's heat these energy systems will be unable to produce electricity.