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WalkNTalk View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 1 Feb, 2026 03:18 AM Wouldn't it be great to lower our heating and cooling bills by going solar? I'd sure welcome a small energy bill. What are your ideas for going green and going solar? Post Reply
WalkNTalk View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 08:27 AM I believe MAGNETIC REPULSION is the answer. Post Reply
Handyman62 View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 09:24 AM Can you provide any information on how magnetic repulsion works? And then maybe some examples of working prototypes? Post Reply
JamesEG View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 09:26 AM Based on my limited knowledge, scientific "experts" seem to feel magnetic repulsion isn't feasible on a large scale. I echo HandyMan's questions on the subject. Post Reply
JamesEG View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 09:34 AM Handyman62, how would you handle the safety of nuclear power plants and the long-term storage of waste? Solar power is gradually becoming cheaper and is becoming more popular. I still think it has the best future potential as an energy source. Even without subsidies it is perhaps already the cheapest energy source in places like Hawaii. The massive increase in energy consumption due to AI and data centers poses a problem. Personally, I am not that fond of AI, though it is improving. Requiring AI data centers to pay a premium cost for their electricity could discourage their expansion and subsidize the expansion of solar power facilities (or other facilities) to produce electricity for them. Perhaps even require them to generate their own electricity. I don't know. Reducing energy consumption combined with increasing solar power can meet needs without nuclear power based on my limited information. Post Reply
Handyman62 View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 11:05 AM The safety record of nuclear energy is actually good when compared to other energy producing technologies with all of them improving those records with time and experience. Everything produces waste and when the spent rods are retired they do currently just get stored. "Reprocessing separates residual uranium and plutonium from the fission products. The uranium and plutonium can be used again as fuel. Most of the high-level waste (other than spent fuel) generated over the last 35 years has come from reprocessing fuel from government-owned plutonium production reactors and from naval, research and test reactors." Even though what I just quoted say's they're using reprocessed fuel it went on to say they currently don't reprocess spent fuel rods so I think that something that should be done to reduce the amount of waste to a minimum. I suspect the reason they don't is because it's cheaper to just store it rather than reprocess. That needs to be changed in order to help facilitate the building of more nuclear power plants but I don't think it will because government has allowed environmentalist rhetoric to convince many that nuclear power is worse than it really is so they are going to let it die before it's time. I also think the government does this because they want to make it easier to induce more shortages of electricity, natural gas and gasoline which will cause shortages of other related products so they can exert more control over the masses. I would like to concede that solar and wind to be the best thing to solve a lot of the current artificial shortages but the cynic in me believes that it would only be a temporary fix. Installing a personal Solar system would be the best long term solution but even that would work best in a place like where I live that's out in the country rather than in a city where the government likes to exert much more control over what you do. Post Reply

WalkNTalk View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 11:29 AM North repels north, and south repels south. "Get chur motor runnin'. Head out on the highway. BORN TO BE WILD" Post Reply
WalkNTalk View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 11:36 AM Handyman speaks of how solar electric can kill ya by giving you the final shock of your life. I'm in more favor of passive solar designs. Where sun heats your water and sun feels a room with warmth and sunlight abounds in your room. But I do like those little solar lights. I definitely want to use them. I want some solar cells. I want a solar fan. A solar water pump may come in handy. Maybe one could circulate anti-freeze in a solar heating system where one heats anti-freeze and the anti-freeze circulates through your home and you don't have to worry about pipes freezing. Post Reply
WalkNTalk View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 11:38 AM And another perk from going Nuclear is that we can go on to make nuclear bombs. Post Reply
WalkNTalk View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 02:03 PM An example of MAGNETIC REPULSION is a PERPETUAL MOTION DEVICE which you cannot get a patent on. No one wants you to have FREE ENERGY. You remember the old television series, "McCloud" and "Gun Smoke". A relative of that actor (DENNIS WEAVER) discovered he could power his car by magnets repelling magnets and turning a little motor made up of magnets repelling magnets that in turn provide free electricity to directly power his car. He had a working model. He was happy with his car that ran on a FREE ENERGY DEVICE from magnets repelling magnets which in turn produced an electric current which powered his car without any need for fuel nor any electric charging station. They don't want you to be powering your house or car or anything with that kind of FREE ENERGY. This was news on youtube over 20 years ago. Where is it on the market now? Wish I were his close relative so I too could be driving such a car. Post Reply
Handyman62 View Profile History	What do you men think about "GOING SOLAR"? Posted : 3 Feb, 2026 02:05 PM Passive solar works but there are many things that can be overly complicated and most people don't want to make their lives more complicated. When I was in the planning stages of my solar setup the one thing that was the biggest sticking point was heating water. I spent months going around and around considering every possible way to heat water and had I not lived in a state that gets cold enough to freeze pipes it would have been easier. In fact I had built a passive solar water heater for my house in San Diego which worked great but it couldn't keep up with my ex mother in law who would spend at least 20 minutes a day rinsing all the dirty dishes with Hot water before putting them in the dishwasher. My positioning of the water heater limited its sun exposure but had I had a better place for it it would have been able to heat more water throughout the day. After way more time than I wanted to spend on a way to heat water without having to install an expensive and overly complicated system I was exhausted. Sadly even when I reached out for inspiration from those at the Solar Power Forums I got nothing but even more complicated ideas. I guess some people love complicating things but I'm not like that and so I strive to find the simplest and most robust setup I can come up with and what I settled on is just that. While I was thinking that smaller was better for my solar setup it turned out bigger was better. So I doubled the size and was then able to use 240 volt split phase which also allowed me to use my current 80 gallon electric water heater. Well almost. I still had one hurdle because even though I had doubled my system. It still wasn't enough to run the water heater AND have enough power to run the house and charge batteries at the same time. My solution was two fold. One was to replace the 4500 watt heating elements with lower power 2500 watt ones. And the second one was to put the water on a timer which limited its on time to peak sun hours which are roughly from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. It could be less time but 3 hours was fine because when the water was hot enough it would cycle the heating elements off in tank anyway. The other issue which could be called a third solution is to limit hot water usage because like the passive solar water heater I built in San Diego the amount of hot water was limited. If you really think about it, if a person is going to install a photovoltaic system and you already use an electric water heater it's far easier to install a few more solar panels and just use that to heat your water rather than even considering any other method. But if you happen to live somewhere with mild winters or are willing to just drain your solar water heater in the winter. A passive water heater can be built pretty easily using an old chest freezer and an old sliding glass door. You cut away half of the insulation from the water heater and paint it and the outside of the freezer black. Raise the water heater tank up close to the glass and angle the whole thing south towards the sun and hope it doesn't get too hot so be sure and also hook up the over pressure valve and pipe it to the outside. Post Reply