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Wide of power lines, smokestacks and highway with tilt down to solar panels 2. Mediums shot of solar panels3. Kibbutz member Chanoch Pnini walking out of solar field4. Pan right for solar...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eKvutsat Yavneh, Southern Israel, 22 April 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of power lines, smokestacks and highway with tilt down to solar panels \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mediums shot of solar panels\u003cbr/\u003e3. Kibbutz member Chanoch Pnini walking out of solar field\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan right for solar panels to kibbutz house\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pnini entering home and switching on light \u003cbr/\u003e6. Pnini preparing a bath for his two month old son Tomer; wife Tova enters bathroom \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up on tub\u003cbr/\u003e8. Tomer sits in tub\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chanoch Pnini, Kibbutz member who helped initiate solar project:\u003cbr/\u003e \"It feels very good that I can use renewable energy instead of burning fossil fuels and I think that's the future. I think that's what my son would like me to do, to wash him with water that was heated by the energy of the sun and I think that's the right thing to do. Right?\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up on baby Tomer in the bath\u003cbr/\u003e11. Pan right from solar panels to tank where water heated by the sun is stored and then fed to kibbutz\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up on pipes\u003cbr/\u003e13. Medium shot of tank\u003cbr/\u003e14. Employee working on solar energy infrastructure\u003cbr/\u003e15. Employee emptying water for infrastructure\u003cbr/\u003e16. Medium of solar panel\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up on mirror\u003cbr/\u003e18. Establishing shot of  Roy Segev, Zenith Solar CEO\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Roy Segev, Zenith Solar CEO \u003cbr/\u003e \"This solar field in my back would return the investment which the kibbutz has invested into it in approximately 5 years. More than this, this machine here, since it's co-generating electricity and heat, would save approximately 40,000 litres of heating oil per year.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of water tank and solar panels\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of solar field\u003cbr/\u003e22. Close up on solar panels\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close up on spot where sun is reflected in solar panels \u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of solar panels\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (English)  Roy Segev, Zenith Solar \u003cbr/\u003e\"The name of the game of solar generating systems in general is the ability to harvest as much as you can energy from the same, I would say, real estate area, so if the standard PV (photo-voltaic) panel would harvest approximately 10 per cent of the energy, the systems here are harvesting approximately 70 per cent of the energy, almost seven-times more efficient that a standard panel.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of solar panels\u003cbr/\u003e27. Employees working on solar infrastructure\u003cbr/\u003e28. Zenith Solar chief technical officer Bob Whelan checking equipment\u003cbr/\u003e29. Employee inspecting equipment\u003cbr/\u003e30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bob Whelan, Zenith Solar chief technical officer \u003cbr/\u003e \"In the past, if you had photovoltaic cells on the roof of your house, you were generating electricity, but the heat that was essentially wasted that was absorbed by those cells and rejected, was going back to the atmosphere, you weren't making use of them. If you had your hot water system, you were just taking heat into your hot water. This combines both concepts in one unit and it has great advantages, both in cost and efficiency.\"\u003cbr/\u003e31. Solar panels\u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide of solar field\u003cbr/\u003e33. Wide of solar panel near kibbutz house\u003cbr/\u003e34. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chanoch Pnini, Kibbutz member who helped initiate solar project:\u003cbr/\u003e \"What we're expecting to make a year is about 300,000 New Israeli Shekels ($70,500 USD) from electricity and about 100,000 shekels ($24,000 USD)  from not burning any fossil fuels to heat up the water. So that's about 400,000 shekels  ($94, 000 USD) a year.\"\u003cbr/\u003e35. Close up on 2-month-old Tomer\u003cbr/\u003e36. Medium shot of Pnini bathing his son\u003cbr/\u003e37. Wide of power lines, smoke stacks and highway with pull out to include solar field\u003cbr/\u003eSolar power meets communal living in Israel this weekend as a unique solar power plant is switched on. \u003cbr/\u003eThe manufacturers say their design will make solar technology more economically viable. \u003cbr/\u003eChanoch Pnini always knew he wanted to create a green future for his newborn son Tomer.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that's the future. I think that's what my son would like me to do, to wash him with water that was heated by the energy of the sun and I think that's the right thing to do,\" says Pnini, as he splashes warm water on his two-month-old son in the bathtub.\u003cbr/\u003eChanoch, a member of the Kvutsat Yavneh kibbutz helped bring 16 solar power units to his small community that are set to wean the grouping of 180 families off the national power grid in an affordable way. \u003cbr/\u003eRather than being bogged down by debt for countless years in their bid to go green, members of the kibbutz will have their investment returned over five years - without needing government subsidies.\u003cbr/\u003eDevelopers at the Israeli start-up Zenith Solar say their technology is cost efficient and doesn't require government funds to get off the ground.\u003cbr/\u003eZenith Solar's CEO Roy Segev says the panels his company is marketing are seven times more efficient when it comes to harnessing solar energy, which the panels use to create both electricity and to heat water.\u003cbr/\u003eThe solar upgrade is set to save the kibbutz (communal farm) some 95,000 US dollars a year, which can then be invested into other services the kibbutz members share, like the dining hall and school. \u003cbr/\u003eZenith Solar's power costs about two dollars per watt generated, as opposed to other solar power systems that cost five or six dollars, according to Regev. \u003cbr/\u003eThe company is launching their pilot-project at a special ceremony on Sunday attended by the country's President Shimon Peres. \u003cbr/\u003eThe high profile launch will highlight the importance of the new technology, which will generate about 150 Megawatts per hour of electricity and 300 Megawatts per hour of thermal energy. \u003cbr/\u003eOn Sunday the kibbutz will officially be connected to the solar field. \u003cbr/\u003eUntil then, Zenith Solar technicians continue to try to make sure every bolt is in place.\u003cbr/\u003eIn conventional concentrated photovoltaic systems, the excess heat generated in the solar cell needs to be removed to avoid damaging the cell and to maintain high efficiency of electricity conversion. \u003cbr/\u003eZenith Solar says its technology captures the heat generated at the solar cell receiver to provide usable hot water heating.\u003cbr/\u003e Bob Whelan, the company's Chief Technical Officer explains more : \u003cbr/\u003e\"In the past, if you had photovoltaic cells on the roof of your house, you were generating electricity, but the heat that was essentially wasted that was absorbed by those cells and rejected, was going back to the atmosphere, you weren't making use of them ... 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