| The day has arrived when you have to think about | | | | needs to be COOKED for a half hour. |
| how to build solar panels in your own home to save | | | | When 30 minutes are up, switch off electric stove |
| energy bills and therefore precious money and do | | | | and allow sheet to cool at its own pace. The sheet |
| your little bit for saving the environment. | | | | will shrink. You will see flaking happening now and |
| The good thing about doing this is it can be a fun | | | | once completely cooled, hold it under running water |
| exercise for an individual and of course, for the entire | | | | and flake off very gently. DO NOT brush hard or it |
| family as well. To get started on making your cell to | | | | might damage the SOLAR PANEL. |
| harness the energy from the sun to power your | | | | You will now need another sheet of copper around |
| home, you will need to make a visit to the hardware | | | | the same dimensions as the first. Fit them into the |
| store. | | | | bottle without letting them touch each other. The |
| Once there, buy half a square foot of a sheet of | | | | side of the sheet facing up on the stove should face |
| copper flashing, an electric stove, a large mouth | | | | out into the bottle. Now, attach your clip leads, one |
| bottle, glass or plastic (5 litre mineral jar), a sensitive | | | | to the new copper plate, and one to the COOKED |
| micro-ammeter, few table spoons of table salt, tap | | | | one. The clean sheet should be attached to the |
| water, sand paper or wire brush on an electric drill, | | | | positive side of the meter and the cooked one to |
| metal shears and three alligator clip leads. | | | | the negative. |
| First thing, wash hands to keep clean and dry. Cut a | | | | Mix hot tap water with a few table spoons of salt |
| piece of the copper sheeting to the size of the | | | | until completely dissolved. Pour the saltwater into the |
| diameter of the electric stove. Now, wash copper | | | | bottle taking care not to wet the clip leads. Pour rill |
| sheet with soap to rid it of any oil. With sand paper, | | | | about an inch of the copper sheets are above water. |
| clean the sheet really well. | | | | Your solar cell is ready! The cell produces 50 micro |
| After this, place copper sheet on stove again and | | | | amps at 0.25 volts. Do not expect to light bulbs to |
| turn on stove to highest heating setting. What you | | | | light or charge batteries with this device. It can be |
| want is for the sheet to turn orange, red, purple or | | | | used as a light detector or light meter and it would |
| pink; then as the stove heats more, the color from | | | | take acres of them to power your house which |
| the sheet vanishes and soon, the sheet will darken. It | | | | would be very expensive. |