Do-Yourself-Solar Technologies

A workshop participant soldering a string of PV cells for a hand-made 60w module.

-------------------------------A string of 9 PV cells being tested for voltage and amps after soldering.

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Four strings, ready for 60w PV module encapsulation with liquid Silicon.

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 Two 60w modules, wired and ready for framing.

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A finished 60w PV module, rear view, framed and ready for testing.

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Thanks to the do-yourself-solar techniques described above, participants can now become free from the oppressive, polluting, fossil-fuel based establishment.

Many folks around the world, with experience assembling these hand-made PV modules, can now start their own business'. Sharing their knowledge with others, and becoming independent, "green - energy" producers, in their communities!

Our Business

Dadsolar.com, working with Maine Solar Energy Association, Skyheat Associates and Solar Energy Awareness and Demonstration Seminars-(S.E.A.D.S.) of Truth, Inc., through do-yourself-solar seminar programs, (d-y-s), has been helping people realize self-reliant lifestyles, in many areas of the world, for 30 years.

"Working towards self-sufficiency, small steps to world peace!", has been a favorite slogan, inviting families and communities, to take the first step away from the petro-chemical addiction, that we all are suffering.
So many folks are frustrated, thinking that we can't do more or anything to help the world situation. Even using solar energy for heat and electricity, offsetting fossil fuel expenses and pollution, seems too far from our grasp.  How frustrating is our situation? What can we do?
We have been working with the d-y-s approach for over thirty years, facilitating the learning process for many hundreds of participants.

Our efforts are allowing participants to utilize safe, non-polluting, solar energy. The d-y-s method , simple and easy to accomplish, allows anyone to achieve a degree of self-sufficiency in their life-style, without going broke! In fact, working one step at a time, families can gradually become more and more independent of the polluting, exploiting and expensive, fossil fuel spiral that has the world teetering on the edge of disaster. Those working with this program around the world, (in the U.S., Nicaragua, Haiti, Peru, Mali, India, etc.), have watched the jubilant faces of those who can experience the great feeling of "a step toward self-reliance".

A network of experienced "facilitators", exists now, and can be increased in size and scope, to further this work. People making their own energy, heat, hot-water, electricity - all from the sun! The basic component parts are available cheap enough for poor communities to pool their resources and take the first step! One panel to heat water, one module to charge a battery or to pump water to the garden or a shade/green house to allow local food production and growing season extension. As they can, more steps are added, and self-sufficiency is approached. A small funding base can allow many communities that cannot as yet, take the first step, and start a local solar-learning program.

We are making 30W & 60W PV modules in Harlem, NY, with inexperienced workers; 3rd and 4th graders in rural Maine are making small PV battery chargers that can be placed in their windows to recharge the batteries we so often throw away; local compasinos in Nicaragua, many are land-mine victims, delivering locally produced solar PV modules, on bicycles, to remote village clinics and homes, for battery systems to light the night, or pump water, from river and well, to garden; orphans in Mali, western Africa, have started their own business, manufacturing PV modules locally.

The technology is here, made available a step at a time, for us here in the U.S., handicapped and not able to achieve or not able to afford the required resources needed for the "rebates and tax credits", offered by the utilities and state energy offices. Many folks, motivated by the past oil-crisis of the 70's, established "off-grid" communities and homes, that now function as self-reliant, solar powered learning centers. 

These facilities can expand their activities, inviting more families to learn and share the experience of living a more self-reliant life. Each time there is a solar workshop producing another solar apparatus to help someone live more self-reliant, another person or group in the area becomes motivated and empowered to "take the first step!"

This do-yourself-solar approach, an over-all plan to help those with the least, will grow, slowly, to allow more and more, the experience of taking a step toward a  self-reliant lifestyle, paving the way for a world at Peace, without the addictions we all suffer.

"One step at a time - Do-yourself-solar technologies", could grow into the wave that changes the way we live! We can do it. We are doing it.

We need others, motivated for change in their lives, to get involved with do-yourself-solar.  Contact us,  thank you!

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A finished, 60w PV module, Harlem, NY, ready for testing - 2007.               --------------

Who We Are

Dadsolar, SEADS, Skyheat Associates and MeSEA, are a group of dedicated solar and alternative energy enthusiasts, with well over thirty years experience, developing do-yourself-solar technologies. We have participated in thousands of seminars, workshops and educational forums around the world. There has been a re-newed enthusiasm from the folks we have spoken with during our past encounters. We look forward to the next steps, and additional learning facilitators, to help spread the message of self-reliant life-style changes, stressing solar, wind and alternative energy, establishing solar learning community centers wherever the need exists. 

Contact us as soon as you can imagine! See CONTACT PAGE for seminar info and links. 

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