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Summary: Avoid using batteries as a power source more than is needed. Learn about saving energy in your home with natural or solar power in this free video.
Peter Bonenberger has always loved nature and believed that it is important. He and his wife founded a non-profit organization called the Bear Springs Blossom Nature Conservation. They...read more
"The problem is that you can not use one hundred batteries because then my solar panels up there would be not big enough to fill all these batteries. Or the wind power would not be strong enough to fill the batteries. You have to find some kind amount of batteries that's enough that you can fill the batteries and keep them full without being too small and then not have enough storage in the batteries. What you see here is that we have always fewer batteries together because our system, what we use here, is a twenty-four volt system. Each battery has six volts and when we put four times six volts together we have an output of twenty four volts. The same here. So the idea is we put blocks, four times six volts, and then we have the twenty four volts. From our solar array on top of the roof there comes usually about twenty-eight to thirty volts. A battery, to charge a battery, you need more volts than the battery can hold."
eHow Article: Limiting Use of Batteries for Power