Outdoor Solar Lights

What I mean is by green is using the energy efficiant light bulbs, solar panals, organic or natural foods, and all the other natural stuff. Strong opinions welcome.

i drive a canoe to work everyday from my non electrical log cabin, so i don’t think i can get any greener.

Seriously, i have started thinking greener these days. Not just necessarily for global warming, but for air pollution and for waste reasons. I’ve started using my recycling bend, drive a more fuel efficient truck, and try to lose less energy.

is it a balance and are photolysis and carbon fixation of equal importance, being one in dependence of light and the other temperature in the process of making energy for the plant (photosynthesis)?

A plant will grow in a warm temperature but the leaves will not take to it’s natural colour so it’s more important for plants to have solar energy.

Here is a website that should interest you.

We made a procedure in the lab in which we boiled all these leafs in ethanol, took them out and stain them with iodine. We observed that the green leaf stained completely; the variegated leaf stained in the green parts, the red cultivar stained in sections and the senescent didn’t stain. My question is: Knowing that red leaves have a lot of accessory pigments, i suspect that the stained places are those in which chlorophyll a is present. If chlorophyll a is the main pigment in photosynthesis and accessory pigments absorb different wavelength but do not carry photosynthesis themselves, how is it possible that these plants survive with so little amount of starch? And, knowing that solar light have all wavelengths, how come some people in my lab mentioned that this adaptation is beneficial under shady conditions?

Thanks in advance for your help…

Starch is a storage product, and can be mobilized, hydrolyzed, and the sugars transported to other cells, correct? Can you suggest an experiment to find out if starch stored in a cell in a green section of a leaf gets used elsewhere?

As to your second question, what colors of light are blocked (absorbed) by leaves? So what might be a useful adaptation for photosynthesis for a plant that, say, normally grows under trees? Is that where you typically find plants with red leaves in nature?

does any one know where i can find solar powered lights to use in house holds…because i have no idea where i can get products that are green

Have you looked at your neighborhood shops? Check them. If they don’t have them you might want to look on ebay or etsy. Here is are some solar power lights for sale: http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=Where+to+buy+solar+powered+lights%3F&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=uQe8Sd2_GJqNtgecl6z4Cw&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title
Hope I helped!

There is this trash can like on a green belt walk way in my town, and it has a solar trash can that I have no idea what it is used for. It has like a green light flashing on it, is it to show when its full maybe?

It’s just a trash can.

These are appearing on the streets of Philadelphia now. They say "solar trash compactor" so I think they use solar power to compress the trash.

Here’s an article about the ones we have here in Philly:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32110044

i carried out an experiment using different coloured solutions to see the affect of wavelength on power output from a silicon photovoltaic solar panel. I was expecting to see a peak where the efficiency of the wavelength and the energy of the photons were optimum. However instead i found that from wavelength in the blue region it was a fairly high power output which then decreased towards the green region and then increased even higher in the red region. I have made sure i kept the intensities of the different wavelengths constant. What could be the cause for this dip in the green wavelength region?

Silicon solar panels have their greatest sensitivity at the red end of the visible spectrum and in the near infrared. By contrast, the human eye is relatively more sensitive to the green part of the spectrum. Neither silicon nor human eyes are especially sensitive to the relatively short blue wavelengths, but your blue solution may also transmit a significant amount of red or infrared light, giving a comparatively high reading for the silicon’s "blue" sensitivity.

Is there a tax deducation avaliable to those who "go green" (using solar lights, driving a hybrid car, etc)? If not should there be? Do you think this tax credit would make more people try to stop global warning?

in the us yes, in fact for now it’s subsidized, the dept. of energy will reimburse 50% of the instalation cost and you can write off 20% standard depretiation for home power generation. unless its renewed you have untill 12-31 to get the hybrid car tax credit.

I am trying to be more "green", but I wonder if I am just defeating my purpose by buying so much plastic solar lights, and wondering if using my old low voltage lights would be less detremental to the earth, or just using 4 or five 40 watt flood lights on timers, where only 1 or two are on at a time.

Any suggestions of offers to where I can find out helpful inormaiton?

Thanks in advance.

I take it you are talking about outdoor lighting here. The answer is pretty easy. Go with the solar ones. I have some I got from Frontgate. They are nice, use LEDs, and they really did cost about the same as it would have cost me to get the same lights with a transformer. The solar cells use two rechargable AA batteries, which are good for about 18 to 24 months before I replace them. So the battery cost is a bit less than the energy used via a transformer, but I like being able to place the lights where ever I want and not worry about long low voltage wire runs.