[Energy] Can we get more solar panels?

Sage Radachowsky sage.radachowsky at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 14:20:38 EST 2011


Part of the ruling today was that the City wants the power to the camp shut
down.

Can we quickly rise to the occasion and set up a few more solar panels?

We have two weeks.   Do we have any panels waiting in the wings?

If not, we can order one or two from Home Depot. For example:
http://www.homedepot.com/Grape-Solar/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ8p9/R-202959976/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053

Two of these === a nice 200 Watts.

And we order a charge controller from Amazon.com... another $100.  Voila --
$750 for a 200 Watt solar charging system.  One or two more good deep cycle
batteries .... At $1,000 we get a great system.

I do have a 1000 Watt inverter if we need it. Or we could use a smaller
inverter.  We could power the media tent with this, and several lighting
strips.

We also have 2 weeks to work on solar ovens and solar thermal heating
solutions for sleeping tents.

I think we will get the barracks style tents within a week.  If we make a
really great top-notch camp, for sleeping in a group situation, for the
purpose of protesting, and really lift up the whole quality and image of
the camp, then perhaps we will get to keep the camp through the Winter.

Sage
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