I have been doing my research on home solar power system for the last couple of months. To reduce a home electricity bill is not difficult by using solar power, but it involves some capital investment and a lot of hard work.

A home residential solar power system is all about using solar panels to extract energy from the sun and then use it to charge a series of deep cycle battery.

The power from the batteries would need to be passed through a power inverter and then used to power some of the electrical appliances at home. When you have more electrical equipment hooked up to the solar system, you will see a reduction on your month electricity bill.

Are there any ways to charge the battery apart from using solar power?

If you are living in the urban environment, the second best alternative is to use a residential wind generator.

I did come about an interesting concept where you can get free energy to charge the batteries, by using the power from your telephone line!

I came across this interest concept while search the web. It is the Phone 4 Energy web site.

At first, I thought it is a bunch of BS. But what do I have to loose, I decided to check it out.

The guide was written by Ryan Wilson who is a telephone engineer from New York. He claims there is a source of free energy that most people do not know and he is willing to reveal it.

According to Ryan, the phone company generates their own electricity separate from the power utility company. The electric current is required to bring the telephone signal into your home.

Since we’ve already paying for the fixed phone line, why not find a way to use to the electricity supplied by the phone company?

That idea makes sense to me.

As it turns out, the fixed phone line does have a small amount of Direct Current (DC). The challenge is to find a way to make use of it.

What Ryan Wilson did was come up with a Do It Yourself (DIY) kit to extract the energy from the phone line. It is a small amount, but nonetheless, it is free energy.

Even the Photovoltaic (PV) panels are giving out only a small amount of DC. The advantage is the never ending supply.

To make use of the power from the fixed phone line, a separate wire from the telephone cable has to be connected to the charge controller. And then the charge controller will do the rest to monitor and regulate the power needed to charge the batteries.

After a quick review of the Power 4 Energy web site, I notice the selling price to be $47. What I’ve also notice is some of the bonus e-books that come with the offer.

Bonuses such as the Run Your Car On Water and Magnets 4 Energy are selling at $47 on their own! It’s an interesting offer indeed.

If you have your own home battery bank you’ve build to supplement your electricity consumption, why not use the current coming from the fixed phone line. You’ve already paying for the line, you might as well use the power. The Phone 4 Energy guide will show you how.

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Does the Earth4 Energy e-book by Michael Harvey works? Will it help to reduce your home electricity bills?

The key behind the Earth4 Energy guide is to teach you how to make a Do It Yourself (DIY) solar panel with minimal cost. A typical Photovoltaic (PV) panel consists of 36 PV cells capable of generating 18 volts of electricity at 75 watts.

Joining a couple of solar panels together and you’ll be able to harness the free energy from the sun and use is to charge up a battery bank. The same battery bank can then be used to power some of your home electrical appliances and most of the lighting fixtures.

How much would it cost to make a solar panel on your own? By following the instruction in Earth4 Energy, you can get it done with less than $150. The budget can get lower if you are willing to do some work sourcing for used or recycled solar cells.

There is a disclaimer though. A homemade solar panel is not a difficult task. However, if you are not good with hand tools and you don’t know how to solder two pieces of wires together, the whole project can be very challenging for you.

Imaging this….you have 36 pieces of PV cell and each cell has 2 tabbing wires. All the tabbing wires have to be soldered to each other to form a series of photo conducting cell. Therefore, you have to do more than 72 soldered wire joints!

If you don’t feel comfortable handling hot iron rods or working with molten metal, it is fair to say making the DIY solar panel will not work for you.

So what’s your alternative then?

You can head over to Amazon.com and buy a readymade solar panel.

To wrap up, is the Earth4 Energy guide by Michael Harvey the real deal?

It will show you how to make a solar panel on your own with step by step instructional videos, but the rest is up to you. If you have patient and dedication, the DIY solar panel will supply sufficient power for your home solar power system.

Has John Russel’s Power4Home e-book appeared on the Popular Mechanics web portal? Sometimes in the past, it has actually.

Appearing on the Popular Mechanics portal is not that difficult, all you have to do is purchase a banner ad on the web site. My guess is, that is what John Russel did.

Does this mean Popular Mechanics endorses the Power4Home guide?

Far from it. Anyone or any organization can buy advertisement there. The advertising program was setup to generate revenue for the Popular Mechanics portal. Whether the DIY home solar power guide by John works or not is another matter.

If you are planning to use solar power to reduce your home electricity consumption, what the Power4Home e-book will do for you is show you how to make a DIY solar panel with minimal cost. As a matter of fact, you can make the Photovoltaic (PV) panel with a budget of less than $150.

You will still need some capital investment to purchase other solar components such as charge controller, deep cycle batteries, power inverter, circuit breakers etc.

If you want a reasonable size residential solar power system, the amount of budget you need to set aside ranges from $1000 – $1500. To get a system built with a budget less than that will be a challenge.

If you want to get start with a homemade solar power system, the Power4Home is a good reference guide you can use.