Solar Energy, Advice on the design and installation of renewable energy systems.

Solheat.com, is my hobby website. Set up after I investigated ways to implement renewable energy within my home.

There are various links to alternative energy websites and Commercial products throughout this site.

Solar power, For the purposes of the discussions in this site, is that power which we can extract from the sun's source as renewable power. This includes not only directly collected energy from the likes of solar panels, but from wind power, bio-mass and ground heat.

Fossil fuels, which could be construed as energy from the sun stored over millions of years are not included, as this is not renewable energy in anyones lifetime.

The sun is approximately 93 million miles from planet earth. (How do we know?), It is a huge nuclear fireball. Nuclear fusion in the sun's interior converts atoms of hydrogen into heavier atoms of helium, giving off extreme radiation as it does so. The sun has been burning for millions of years. It is currently over 70% hydrogen, so there is plenty of fuel left yet.