How hard is it to convert your home to solar energy? Can it be accomplished without ruining the outside appearance of your house? Most of the solar homes I have seen are covered with ugly panels that make it look trashy. Is there any way around this?

Also, how much money does one need in order to transform their home to solar?

Check out the HGTV channel. They keep re-running a show that has solar panels be installed in a home. Doing it the way they do it on HGTV looks expensive.

On the show, the put plumbing in the walls throughout the home to pump water through to keep the walls and floors warm. They had to insulate all the plumbing.

The installed special glass panes that brought warmth into the house during the winter.

During the summer, the glass panes are covered to keep the house cool and the water pumped through the walls and floor is also cooled.

I have seen the builders put in these big boxes that convert all your wires and plumbing to meet the needs of the house. They have all kinds of buttons on them for setting special heat and cooling in different rooms.

The HGTV solution will not work for me because I live in a manufactured home that has only thin walls made of wood.

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Hi I am a high school student and I have to build a model solar home for my engineering project. The house needs to be pretty big with working lights and fans. I also have to be able to store the energy. And i am having loads of trouble figuring out how to do it...can anyone help me??

No problem, you will get an A if you follow my recommendations. First, use the solar power calculator on this website and select the number of lights and fans that your model solar home needs to have. You will get an estimate of how many solar panels you will need to accomplish the job. Down at the very bottom of the solar power calculator page is a link that will take you to easy, step by step plans for how to build a solar power system that will power the lights and fans that you selected. If you choose energy efficient lights and a small fan, you should be able to build all the solar components of your house for about $200. The solar power calculator is at http://www.mysolarsecret.com/solar-power-calculator.html and the link to the plans are at http://www.mysolarsecret.com/ (or just use the link at the bottom of the solar power calculator page).

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I will like to make a solar panel at home. I know that they are not that expensive today but I thought it would be fun.

do a search at www.makezine.com for a photovoltaic cell you can make at home. You won't get much voltage or current out of it, though, and it involves heating a piece of metal very hot so it could be dangerous - so the process is best done by an adult or under careful adult supervision.

These home made cells are not very efficient, and have no practical use, but it could make for a fun science project.

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