The warm summer months never last forever. Soon it’s time to look for a way to bring a little extra warmth into the home and this simple solar heater is a great project to do just that. It’s made of metal cans, steel or aluminum, and can produce a surprisingly strong and consistent airflow upwards of 140F.
Even on a heavy snow day you’re looking at somewhere around 75-85F.
Best of all, this simple project requires just a few common parts and many of them can simply be re-purposed from your regular recycling. Watch the project come together in the fully-detailed video on the NEXT PAGE:
Now this is good solar tech I can get behind. PV panels are toxic, expensive (when not subsidized by MY tax dollars even though I think they are inferior ways to generate electricity.) Unreliable, intermittent and need hazardous waste mitigation when they are old and used up. They lose between 1% and 5% of their already pathetic efficiency every year and actually result in more deaths than the power everyone fears: nuclear.
Basic concept is perfect….there are many other video’s that show better ways to make one of these solar collectors….using Inside air (preheated) is the way to go, glass verses plastic for a cover, paint choice for can color (some paints smell awful when heated), metal studs instead of wood framing, insulation board verses cardboard…Insulated ducting, Internal thermostat’s to control fans….possibilities are endless…Great project for Free Heat though..
so will this work on a much larger scale?
making one! I have all the materials, now to just put it all together AND I am also using it as a solar food dehydrator, cannot WAIT to get it done!
Gotta make one of these!
Thanks Danny for posting it.
Too bad republicans are trying to regulate civilian power sources…
May I ask, what powers the fan? The heat created?
Hmm very interesting idea
Jared Olson… this is what I was talking about for the shop.