Saving Energy with Solar Power : Using Golf Cart Batteries to Save Energy

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We are down here in our basement. It's not very comfortable but we need the space because

here, what you see there, is our golf car batteries. You can use different kind of batteries.

There are much more sophisticated ones, but they are much more expensive so we choose

just to get golf car batteries. Some of them are even recycled from someone who didn't

need it any more. One of these batteries is about fifty-five dollars. Why do we use golf

car batteries? A golf car battery is a deep cycle battery. That means it can store a lot

of energy but it's not able to give it away in a short moment. In a car you have a battery

that needs full power when you turn around your key. In a golf car battery you want to

have a battery that you can drive for a long time. The same idea we have here because we

want to store the electricity we get for as long as possible because we never know when

the sun is shining or when the wind is blowing. That's kind of a huge storage and the more

batteries you have the more storage you have.

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