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SolarEnergyAwareness and DemonstrationSeminars Open House !

Get ready for EARTH DAY! APRIL 11 thru APRIL 19, 2009

SEADS solar retreat: 30 years later!

Columbia, Maine - SEADS Solar Hostel and Seminar Center

Two weekends (Apr. 11, 12 and Apr. 15, 16) or one full week (Apr. 11 – 19)

For: green, community, and peace activists

environmentalists, alternative energy practitioners and families

Celebrate the new millennium

networking for a solar future

at community-based alternative energy learning center!

SPECIAL half-rate - $50./day,

includes solar seminar, room & board (scholarships available!)

Optional activities include vision quest, horseback riding, hiking,

boat ride/sail, and/or cross country skiing!

How can my family and I get back to basic solar lifestyle?
Retrofit our existing home? Move to a solar community?

Build a new solar home? Time share a solar home in Maine?
Are you frustrated with your lifestyle conditions?
Are you ready to learn more about alternative energy and solar
community lifestyle and solar time share options?

You are invited to join us and learn more about these things plus:

Ø Photovoltaics (electricity from the sun)

Ø Solar Hot Water

Ø Passive Solar Building Techniques

Ø Organic gardening

Ø Wind energy for your roof or on a pole

Ø Solar independence

Contact:

SEADS of Truth, Inc. (a not-for-profit, education corporation)
PO Box 192, Harrington, ME 04643 207-483-2764
Email seads20@yahoo.com, SoniBiehl@gmail.com

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J box

Post 3

Lunch time.

Post 3

Soldering strings together.

Post 2

Checking output.

Day 2

Day two. Preparing the cured panel for final connections.

Multimedia message

Post 7

Encapsulating with silicone

Post 5

Laying out the strings prior to encapsulation

Post 4

Checking strings

Post 3

Soldering strings

Post 2

Sorting the cells

First post

Checking the output of a 60 Watt module.

LIVE BLOG POST

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Build A 60w PV Module in Harrington, Maine
Mar 7-8

Learn how to assemble your own Photovoltaic module for producing electricity. Richard Komp has pioneered PV module production as a cottage industry in Nicaragua, Mali, Haiti and India. In this workshop you'll get to participate in assembling a 60 Watt PV module, utilizing the encapsulation process, developed in Nicaragua with Grupo Fenix. Depending on the number of participants, we will be making one or more 60 W modules, which are capable of charging 12 V batteries and thus are a good start for a small home or cabin PV system. This workshop is in conjunction with SEADS, non-profit group and will be held at The Harrington Grange Hall. John Burke, of SEADS will be co-facilitator. John has had many years of experience working in the solar field and is currently working with the ARC Center in Harlem, NY, developing a program to manufacture UL approved PV modules. Soni Biehl, treasurer of MESEA, has experience with PV installation and assembly and will be co-facilitator.
For more information: phone: 207-733-1095 or 516-669-2442 or
e-mail: seads@maineline.net , dadsolar@yahoo.com , or sonibiehl@gmail.com

WE WILL BE LIVE BLOGGING THIS EVENT SO CHECK BACK!!