-Did you know-?
Electrical usage is measured in Kilo Watt Hours (KWh). Kilo, is shown by the letter “K” and means 1000, so a kilowatt hour is simply 1000 watts of energy being consumed for one hour (KWh). The Watt is a measure of work performed or energy consumed.
A typical desktop PC with a 17-inch LCD monitor requires about 100 watts—65 watts for the computer and 35 watts for the monitor. If left on 24x7 for one year, this same computer will consume 874 kilowatt hours of electricity—that’s enough to release 750 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the equivalent of driving 820 miles in the average car!
| TVs: Average plasma: 339 watts Average rear-projection: 211 watts Average LCD: 213 watts Other AV gear: PlayStation 3: 197 watts Xbox 360: 187 watts Average PC: 78 watts DirecTV HR20 DVR: 33 watts Nintendo Wii: 19 watts Slingbox: 9 watts Wireless router: 7 watts |
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Some technical notes
Kyocera Panel dimension: area for one panel is 25.7”X 56.1” is 14, 41.7 sq in. or 10.0 sq ft
For twenty (20) solar panels this is 200 sq ft.
One Kyocera panel can produce 130 watts of power, this about 13 watts per square foot.
