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I just stumbled upon a great website called Solar DIY that has a ton of very useful information for anyone building their own solar space heaters.

What are you favorite solar space heater designs using recycled aluminum cans? We've all seen the cansolair but what else is available?

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Cover Home Repair

Cover Home Repair is a launch partner for the Renew New England solar energy initiative. Cover is accepting donations of solar air heaters.

I'm not familiar with air conditioners because I live in a cold climate and I have focused on heating homes and not cooling them. I've noticed an increase in interest in Greencore's solar air heater. It uses solar cells to generate electricity to run the air conditioner.

Is it possible to build a homemade solar air conditioner?

Alternative Sources of Heat

Withing heating fuel prices reaching record highs, lets brainstorm alternative ways source of heat and ways to heat your home.

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My name is Gordon and I got the idea for this site while attending a premeeting meeting about homelessness in northern New Hampshire. Affordable housing and heating kept being mentioned as big issues in the north. As the ecopreneur in the group I realized that by promoting inexpensive renewable energy products I could stimulate the economy and reduce people's heating fuel costs.

When my job was to administer federal fuel assistance funds I noticed that a lot of my clients lived in trailers or "mobile homes." Mobile homes are notoriously fuel inefficient but are perfect for solar thermal technologies because the amount of heated space is quite small. I've seen plans online that could heat a trailer durring the day with very little use of fossil fuels.

If you are looking for plans or inspiration, builditsolar.com has everything you need. It is pretty darn cool website too.
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I'm looking for ideas and plans for inexpensive air heaters. I need something that works and could be manufactured inexpensively enough to be used on lower income homes.

Some cool videos showing low cost ways to add solar heating to your home.

How To Make A Free Solar Panel Part 1

You can make your own solar panels from stuff you have at home. This video shows you how to make an inexpensive solar hot water system.