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This site is dedicated to the "Do It Yourself" aspect of solar energy. Currently I am focusing on the construction of my passive solar heated cabin, but there are many resources available for anyone looking to take on a solar energy project.
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“Concentrating Solar Power by Solucar Power”
Found an interesting article while doing some research on parabolic troughs. My favorite quote from the article would have to be this little gem of knowledge I wasn’t aware of: “At least 30 million Chinese households have a solar thermal...
Solar Water Heaters
I still have not committed to a final design for my solar space heater. Continuing research leads to ever-changing ideas. Today I found a document with a list of references as long as my arm, with some information that I haven’t found in other...
More solar space heater stuff
Just killing some time here in the library at school, doing some research for the solar space heater. The tank enclosure will be similar to this: Which was taken from this article at Mother Earth News. This article is full of great information regar...
Solar Space Heater
I’ve decided to use the water heater tank as a space heater of sorts. We have an old cast iron radiator that I think would be perfect to heat our bedroom with. Since the bedroom is on the opposite side of the house from the wood stove, but also...
Batch Style Solar Water Heater
As all extensive projects do, the solar cabin build has stagnated while good deals are found on the required materials. In the true spirit of being broke, a new project was undertaken today. There was an older propane fired 30 gallon water heater out...
