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What is a Solar Panel Made of?
Solar cells are primarily made of silicon and do not contain any corrosive materials or moving parts. Silicon makes up 27.7% of the Earth’s crust and is the second most abundant element after oxygen. The silicon wafers’ surfaces are infused with minute amounts of impurities primarily Boron or Phosphorous in order to promote the production of electricity. Other materials used in solar panels are – Outer surface: Glass. Electrical Contacts: palladium, silver, nickel, or copper. Panel Frame: Aluminium.
What is Photovoltaic energy?
Photovoltaic energy is produced when sunlight is converted into energy with the use of solar cells or semiconductors. As long as the solar cells are exposed to light, they will produce photovoltaic energy with a minimum of maintenance. This energy is also environmentally clean, quiet, and safe. The term “photovoltaic” has two parts: photo, a Greek word meaning light, and voltaic, a reference to electrical energy innovator Alessandro Volta.
 

This initiative to create ‘green websites’ isn’t a marketing ploy; we should encourage responsible environmental practices inside the office and practice them outside the office. Many of our clients feel just as strongly.

Audio Interviews with Artists, Musicians and Poets

What’s it really like living with creativity? Look back over the years at the tortured artists, drunken writers and drug-crazed musicians who litter our heritage and you might start to ask the question: is creativity a blessing or a curse? How do people hell-bent on finding their muse cope? Is it the quest for creative fulfillment that causes mental anguish, or is there an imbalance in the first place? Can a creative person ever be truly happy as they constantly strive for perfection in their chosen art? And what is it like living with these two-headed beasts – can they be tamed, or should they be allowed free rein? Peter Bright asks all these questions and more in this soul searching series of interviews with artists, musicians, writers and poets.

Listen to Archive
I did an interview with Jake Bright about the difference between playing bass for ‘The Dastards’ and double bass with The North Devon Sinfonia. This interview took place in-between rehearsals for the Sinfonia’s performance at the Landmark Theatre (Ilfracombe) which was on April 18th 2009. The programme included: Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the soprano Naomi Harvey from the Welsh National Opera and finally Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, op.64. The disciplines require for both instruments influences Jake’s own compositions.
There is also an interview with Dave and Sadie Green. Dave is a photographer and Sadie has spent the last few years in the funding side of the Arts. This interview discusses the demise of ‘ArtsCulture’ in Devon and the vacuum left behind by this organisations disappearance.
Juggling with creativity, trying to make it fit into your daily life is a logistical nightmare. In an interview I did with Claire Barker, an artist, illustrator, author, mother, wife, farmer, she explained to me how she talked to the solicitor of the estate of Ted Hughes (UK poet) to get their permission to use one of his poems and still managed to deliver lambs.
Can a creative person ever be truly happy as they constantly strive for perfection in their chosen art? Listen to an interview with Garry Smout, who talks about the problems of using early portable black and white video cameras in the 1970’s, pioneering literary review website the Barcelona Review, early synths and how to kill your babies. The problem with being creative is that everything has to be pushed to the limits.
Creativity is something we are all born with to greater or lesser degrees. It is a vital part of our physiological make up and development. We learn to play and fantasize as children, skills we carry forward into our adulthood. However, if creativity takes hold of your entire existence then it becomes a disease that is parasitic, eating away at your whole world. It might sound melodramatic but creativity can become a cancer of the body or the trigger for psychotic episodes.
Listen to Alisha, a doctor, a GP who is also a poet. I try to find out if creativity is a madness, a disease, an anesthetic or a poison but find out that maybe it could be a ‘Zebra’. Does she use creativity in diagnosis and consultation?

North Devon Web Design – Go Green

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We can offer a web design package that can start from as little as £350.00 We can also build you a website if you want us to on your existing server. There are several options available, contact us for a competitive quote. Having an environmentally-friendly site is a great accomplishment and a great selling point. Let your site visitors know your site has gone green by letting us build you a low carbon web site.

  • Get your project delivered within a specific time frame.
  • Ensure good search engine optimization is employed. 
  • Get service from expert and experienced web and graphics designers.
  • Reduce your project costs.
  • We deliver quality all the time.
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Our websites are powered by 100% wind energy; we are proud that the machines hosting our Web site and e-mail are fully eco-friendly! As energy awareness continues to grow, people are not just looking to make lifestyle adjustments, they want to make environmentally responsible decisions, this site is powered by renewable energy. We are making the effort and helping our clients to be eco-conscious.

Counter Offensive

 Creating new websites is an exciting process but – how long does it take before the enthusiasm wears off and your site becomes a chore or you feel held to ransom by it? Isolated you feel the whole world is against you and the emails with positive leads get less and less and your inbox gets cluttered with SEO companies (I use the term very loosely – many of them are just charlatans simply out to steal your cash) promising page one Google listing and keyword domination. Bullshit. Look back into the history books and find accounts of survival and victory over wars of attrition, then apply the solution to your entrenchment.
The photograph is of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad. This powerful and impressive monument, which is both above ground and below ground, was built as the focal point of Ploshchad Pobedy (Victory Square) in the early 1970s to commemorate the heroic efforts of the residents of Leningrad and the soldiers on the Leningrad Front to the repel the Nazis in the 900-day Siege of Leningrad during World War II. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of major cities in modern history. It isolated the city from almost all supply routes, except those provided by the ‘Road of Life’ across the frozen Lake Ladoga. More than a million civilians died, mainly from starvation.
It is fair to say that the strife of feeling held to siege by your web site – dealing with all the comment spam with its sneaky tactics “You have a great blog here I can’t wait to read your next post” is nothing in comparison to the harsh reality of war.  Learn from history, dig in and plot a counter offensive.

Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad

This is a photo I took in St.Petersburg of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad

This powerful and impressive monument, which is both above ground and below ground, was built as the focal point of Ploshchad Pobedy (Victory Square) in the early 1970s to commemorate the heroic efforts of the residents of Leningrad and the soldiers on the Leningrad Front to the repel the Nazis in the 900-day Siege of Leningrad during World War II. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest, most destructive, and most lethal sieges of major cities in modern history. It isolated the city from almost all supply routes, except those provided by the ‘Road of Life’ across the frozen Lake Ladoga. More than a million civilians died, mainly from starvation.