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:
Actually just a black box without the cans works just as well if not better. Wat hed a guy on you tube do a comparison.
Only works in Arizona
But you need the sun to shine it’s cloudy
Couple that heat output with a Stirling cycle engine and generate electricity much cheaper than with solar panels.
Here is one that my College students in my Energy manufacturing and Fabrication cl$#%&!@* made with 208 monster drink cans with a thermostat and solar power air circulation fan at 32degrees in it made 156 degrees out !
Interesting
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This is a good project for learning solar air heating. I built one a few years ago and it worked just fine. I had in an uninsulated shed and it kept the inside temp anout 40f even when dipping down outside to zero. Had we insulated the shed i believe it would have heated good enough to be comfortable inside. I did use a small bettery operated cpu type fan to circulate the air
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