While it is true that most of us are concerned with the state of the planet and would like to do our bit, financial reasons often keep us from doing what we really want to do.
If you want to help reduce your carbon footprint, then one of the best ways to achieve that on a limited budget is to build your own solar panels.
You don't need to have any engineering experience and the process of building your own panels creates far less emissions than buying panels that have been made in a factory.
So what do you need to know to build your own panels? Besides having a basic understanding of how solar energy is produced, you don't need to know anything.
There are excellent quality do it yourself instruction manuals available online that not only tell you how to build panels, but also show you through video tutorials.
The reason that it is so cheap to build your own solar energy panels is because over the last couple of years the components needed to build panels have become more easily available.
As more of the population buy solar power panels and need them to be repaired or replaced, so the parts are made available.
Now you can take advantage of this and assemble your own panel in just a short weekend.
How much energy will they produce? Depending on the size panel you decide to build and the amount of direct sunlight your home receives will determine how much energy you will produce.
The great advantage of building your own panels is that you can build them as you need to, or alternatively, as you can afford to.
Each panel will result in savings that you can use to increase the number of panels you build.
You don't have to invest a large amount of money upfront and have control over the size and shape of the panels you produce, creating customized panels that would normally cost a small fortune.