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:
Nice job. Anything to help the furnace to run less.
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Susan Haymaker
having bathed in a frozen River and appreciated it, 70 degrees or so sounds like luxury.
you better run your garden hose through this to heat your pool
Zeal says:
“Anything that is made to catch solar heat should be black…..
Paint the cans and box black except for the plexiglas and things would heat up quicker and you’d get higher temps.
Lol at whoever commented about wood burning. If the sun caught things on fire we’d all be living underground”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/diy-metal-can-solar-heater/comment-page-2/#comment-448586
Anything that is made to catch solar heat should be black…..
Paint the cans and box black except for the plexiglas and things would heat up quicker and you’d get higher temps.
Lol at whoever commented about wood burning. If the sun caught things on fire we’d all be living underground
Cool
Bill Shirley
Does it work at night?