Solar electricity from as little as $1,987.50 plus $2.72* a day
Origin now makes it more affordable than ever to go solar with our pay by instalment plan. From as little at $82.81* a month after an upfront payment of $1987.50 you can enjoy a fully installed 1kW solar electricity system in your home, and there’s no interest payable#.
We'll organise everything for you, from your Government rebate to connection to the grid. But hurry, the $8,000 government rebate for solar electricity ends 30th June^.

In this day and age of money and environmental worries, you now have the opportunity to help yourself with both. You can now have the opportunity to help reduce or eliminate your need to purchase commercially generate power from your home or business and move to producing your own green energy. This system, which includes free updates for life, will help guide you in developing your own power system. The system contains a lot of information help speed you on your way

Solar electricity from as little as $1,987.50 plus $2.72* a day
Origin now makes it more affordable than ever to go solar with our pay by instalment plan. From as little at $82.81* a month after an upfront payment of $1987.50 you can enjoy a fully installed 1kW solar electricity system in your home, and there’s no interest payable#.
We'll organise everything for you, from your Government rebate to connection to the grid. But hurry, the $8,000 government rebate for solar electricity ends 30th June^.

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legend claims that Archimedes used polished shields to concentrate sunlight on the invading Roman fleet and repel them from Syracuse.[7] Auguste Mouchout used a parabolic trough to produce steam for the first solar steam engine in 1866.[8]
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. The concentrated heat is then used as a heat source for a conventional power plant. A wide range of concentrating technologies exists; the most developed are the parabolic trough, the concentrating linear fresnel reflector, the Stirling dish and the solar power tower. Various techniques are used to track the Sun and focus light. In all of these systems a working fluid is heated by the concentrated sunlight, and is then used for power generation or energy storage.[9]

This article is about generation of electricity using solar energy. For other uses of solar energy, see Solar energy.
Solar power is by far the Earth's most available energy source, easily capable of providing many times the total current energy demand. The largest solar power plants, like the 354 MW SEGS, are concentrating solar thermal plants, but recently multi-megawatt photovoltaic plants have been built. Completed in 2008, the 46 MW Moura photovoltaic power station in Portugal and the 40 MW Waldpolenz Solar Park in Germany are characteristic of the trend toward larger photovoltaic power stations. Much larger ones are proposed, such as the 550 MW Topaz Solar Farm, and the 600 MW Rancho Cielo Solar Farm. Covering 4% of the world's desert area with photovoltaics could supply all of the world's electricity. The Gobi Desert alone could supply almost all of the world's total energy demand

Upgrade your existing boiler and qualify for home energy savings scheme grUpgrade your existing boiler and qualify for home energy savings scheme grant.

Roof 25% heat loss
Walls 33% heat loss
Windows 20% heat loss
Floor 15% heat loss
Draughts 15% heat loss

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Here's a more advanced type of solar water heating panel. The suppliers claim that in the UK it can supply 90% of a typical home's hot water needs from April to November.
This "Thermomax" panel is made of a set of glass tubes. Each contains a metal plate with a blue-ish coating to help it absorb solar energy from IR to UV, so that even in diffuse sunlight you get a decent output. The air has been removed from the glass tubes to reduce heat loss, rather like a thermos flask.
Up the back of the metal plate is a "heat pipe", which looks like a copper rod but contains a liquid that transfers heat very quickly to the top of the glass tube. A water pipe runs across the top of the whole thing and picks up the heat from the tubes.