A Zero Carbon Website?
Yes, you are looking at a website that produces no CO2, and it's not nuclear either, its 100% sunlight.
On our roof we have just had a 2.16Kw photovoltaic solar array installed.
That may not sound like much, but each of our four UK servers consume just 34 watts. Built as an experiment by ourselves to our own specifications, they have fanless processors and solid state drives. Having no moving parts makes them very efficient and, according to theory, they should also be very reliable; although only time will tell on that.
So, four servers using a total of 146 watts of power means we can produce far more power than we actually use. What we do not use ourselves gets pushed out to the national grid for others to use. Generating just 7% of our capacity will give us enough to run our servers and run our alarm system too.
All daylight comes from the sun, so if there's daylight, the panels will be making power; it does not have to be a sunny day, dull winter days work too, its all daylight. When its dark we do have to use power from the grid; so long as we put back into the grid more power than we take, the net effect is zero carbon.
Get Involved...
The sooner you start, the sooner everyone can benefit from it!
Your Solar Home (.com)
This website has a country by country listing of what grants are available to help you get solar power installed in your home.
DSIRE (USA)
The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy, a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and selected federal grants.
EU Stuff??
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stuff We Used:
Sharp Solar Panels
Outside on the roof we have 12 sharp photovoltaic solar panels. These convert light into electricity
They are connected to...
Fronius Inverter
This converts the power generated on the roof by the solar panels, into mains electricity which is fed into our fuse box, down through our wiring, to our servers.
Did you know?
How can we be sure we're using the power we're generating?
The power delivered from the inverter in a solar installation is 1 volt higher than the power coming in from the grid, giving it that tiny bit more push, thus it gets used first.
Clever init??