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You may be interested in making solar cells for your own house – clean energy is one of the latest and fastest-growing trends in the world.

A number of websites claim this to be easy, or sometimes they even claim that you only need a few hours to do it. However, these all are far from the truth. On the contrary, this process requires a lot of time.

So what is wrong with a DIY solar cell project?

1. You have to buy a lot of hardware items for making the solar cells. For example, you need to buy copper foil sheets, wires, and an electric stove.

2. You also need to spend an hour or so heating up the copper piece, and then cooling it down so you can use it – and 1 hour per cell adds up.

3. The hard reality is that you will need thousands of solar cells if you want to power your house completely with solar energy. You can do the math: you’ll need thousands of hours of free time to pull this off.

If you still want to use solar power, what can you do?

For one, you should look on eBay and buy “chipped” or “broken” solar cells there.

This would cost money but this would also save you precious time and money – which you would have lost if you had made your own solar cells.

And while it is true that having solar panels installed is expensive, it is not because of the parts. It is because of the installation and assembly of the panels.

But the process I just mentioned is simultaneously easier and more economic than making your own cells by yourself. Therefore, my suggestion is that you buy the necessary cells and assemble them yourself without trying to make everything yourself.

So, should you make your own solar cells?

If you have thousands of hours of free time on your hands (the equivalent of months of work), then sure, go ahead and do it. But the rest of us are probably better served by buying the cells pre-made rather than having to replicate the time-consuming and tedious process by ourselves.