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This home is heated by a wood stove in the winter, which also produces hot water. But the other three seasons it's an electric water heater that does the work. This latest hack is a solar collector meant to take over the hot water production work for the house. it uses basic building materials and rudimentary construction skills, making it much more approachable than trying to make electricity … [Read more...]
Want nature to supply you with 130-150 degree hot water? [Onestraw] shows you how to get just that by building a compost heap that heats water. Finding himself the proud owner of a dump truck of green wood chips [Onestraw] went about building his own version of Jean Pain's thermal compost pile. The idea is to produce and store methane generated from the compost pile but in order to do so, the … [Read more...]
Here's a solar water heater setup that augments your home's water heater instead of replacing it. The system monitors a solar collector panel on the roof for temperature. If the temperature is warm enough, a photo voltaic cell powered pump circulates cold water through the system. The heated water returns to the top of the home's water heater. Unlike the warm-climate solar heater we saw earlier, … [Read more...]
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