DIY Green Solar Energy

This is a DIY (do it yourself) solar thermal panel that made hot water for a farm. I built all components with my friend using all parts from Lowes/Home Depot/local hardware stores. Each challenge was to make the solar thermal panels under 0, which we successfully did for each panel. All components can be bought from stores, nothing was special order or special parts. After hooking up the system for the summer of 2011, the system performed very well and actually produced 170 degree F water. The hot water was kept in a Rubbermaid bucket, but the plastic was so cheap that the hot water from the panel melted the Rubbermaid bucket you see in the one of the pictures. I created a thermosiphon, which means that I did not use any electric pumps to move the hot water. The flow rate is about 1 gallon per minute to 1.5 gallons per minute (GPM) when measured inside of the hot water tubing. There are no tubes inside the barrel. I used hose connectors through the side of the barrel with silicone glue. They are like garden hose valves/connectors that you can find in Lowes/Home Depot. I am using CPVC because garden hose and regular PVC melt at the high temperatures. I was getting 190 degree F temperatures in February with this configuration. Below 55 F, the unit is still producing hot water at 150 F or higher. Also, I would recommend that you have a drainback system for during the day so that if you are using straight water it does not freeze or burst your piping. If you are trying …

This is the final part of my Solar Panel DIY job. You’ll need: Solar Cells (The 0.5 volt / 3.6 Amp type) Soldering Iron 2 x Perspex sheets at least 3mm thick EVA material Araldite or silicon sealant Heat Gun / Hair Dryer Material for making plastic or wooden ‘beading’ This part will be covering the EVA application, making the ‘beading’, perspex fixing, environmentally sealing, confirmation voltages and the grand unveiling Please Rate and Sub for more videos Cheers for the help with this Gil Thanks for watching Cost for all materials was approx £40.

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www.permies.com The first solar dehydrator is shown by robert and marina at dell artimus farm. The solar heat comes from a heated panel at the bottom, and there is a black chimney at the top that creates a draw. They use a stainless steel screen. The dryer is a year and a half old. They have dried beans, flowers, cherries, grapes (raisins), kale, walnuts and apples. They tried some tomatoes, but those ended up as pig food. Matt at feral farm shows a “down draft solar dehydrator.” The solar heat enters at the top and then goes down. Because as it gathers moisture, the solar heated air gets heavier. He has nettles in there. Mark Vander Meer, of wildland conservation service in Missoula, Montana shows off his solar food dehydrator still loaded with dried plums. Those plums have been in there all fall, winter and most of the spring. He talks about trying to dry fruit with electric food dehydrators and how expensive that was. This solar dehydrator also uses the down draft technique. He says plums take three days and apples take a day and a half. These are all passive systems. There are no fans. Relevant threads at permies www.permies.com www.permies.com www.permies.com music by Jimmy Pardo

www.SolarEnergyGuide.net – Get step-by-step instructions on how to Build and Install your own solar panels and wind turbines to save TONS OF MONEY on your electricity bill. Make your own FREE electricity and lower your energy bill down to ZERO. Learn how you can force your power company to pay YOU by law for any surplus energy that you generate! Full color detailed instructions make building homemade solar panels easy enough for a novice to follow. Check http for details. Building solar panels is quite simple and it does not require you to hold a degree in electronics. Most people are awed when they hear of such things like constructing a photovoltaic panel and are unsure if they shall be able to construct one for their own home. The truth is that these panels are simple to set up and require limited knowledge of electronics from your end. If you know how to fix screws and have knowledge of using a soldering iron, you can easily construct and install a photovoltaic panel. There are many guides available on the net and following them you can easily build and set up your own photovoltaic panels. The main reason why one is suggested to build their own photovoltaic panels are the costs of the ready to use ones. The ones that are available assembled and ready for immediate installation costs a good sum of money and it will take the user a number of years to recover back that cost. However, if they build their own photovoltaic panels, it works out to be quite economical and …

A prototype solar powered thermo-acoustic engine, 18mm piston 22mm crank, runs at about 450-500 rpm

I designed my little testbed engine so it can be inverted and heated from above, and I finally got the opportunity to try it out using solar energy. I had an old Fresnel lens from a large screen TV that I mounted in a frame and then put the engine hot end at the focus. I was pleased to see that it runs very well, over 1000 rpm. Features of the engine: wood frame, ball bearing crank, water bottle cylinder, tuna can cooling jacket, inner tube and PVC power diaphragm, stainless steel wool moving regenerator. Cooling water provided by tiny submersible pump from Harbor Freight. Stay tuned – next generation engine coming soon. This one has about served its purpose.

Free Energy From the Sun: THE clean, never ending resource! Onbeautiful Seabrook Island, nestled on the coast just south of Charleston, South Carolina, lies Camp St. Christopher It offers over 300 acres of beach, marsh and maritime forest and multiple facilities including meeting and conference centers, lodging, and worship centers. We’re excited about keeping you up-to-date on our progress and informing you about how this project was made possible. The process began last August when the State Energy Office put out information that there were going to be .9 million available in grants for alternative energy projects for non-profits. As soon as we found out, we immediately started getting in touch with local Charleston non-profit organizations to inform them about the opportunity. When St. Christopher responded about being interested, we setup a meeting for late September 2009 and went out to view the grounds and start planning. The RFP from the State was issued in early September. The government was looking at multiple factors before approving a non-profit like St. Christopher for the grant. These included visibility of project, potential job creation, overall benefit in terms of investment and payback of the project (they needed a minimum return of .50 dollars to spent). The grant writing process was long and hard, but St. Christopher didn’t have to worry about that. SES took care of making sure the grant was completed correctly and on time. Anything we were able …

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