Forced Air Heater Solar Passive Heating – Part 1
Forced Air Heater Solar Passive Heating Part 1
No Parts to Break with a Passive Solar Water Heater
The source of nearly all of our energy is the sun. While we might use wind, oil, and rivers to help empower our world, all of those sources of energy are also made possible through the sun. Because it won’t stop burning anytime soon, we can effectively consider it an infinite source of energy, and better yet, it’s completely free for absolutely anyone to use. To get the biggest savings possible on your next energy bill, a passive solar water heater will use the sun’s rays, saving you hundreds of dollars a year. Just One Step to Protect the Environment A passive solar water heater is certainly smart for the environmentalist, but it also makes sense for any home owner. It’s estimated that ten percent of all home energy usage goes into water heating. If every conventional water heater was replaced with a passive solar water heater, the energy savings would be tremendous, saving at least 3-4% off the world’s energy needs each year. While 3-4% doesn’t sound too large, keep in mind that this could be just one step towards making the world energy independent. With other problems like water shortages shaping up to be the defining problems of the twenty-first century, we really don’t have any time to spare. Of course, there are other energy saving water heaters. Other popular versions include water heaters that heat water as it passes through instead of storing it in a large tank. After all, it doesn’t make sense to heat water if you’re not going to use it for hours and hours. However, a passive solar water heater ensures that you’ll always have a large supply of hot water at your disposal, so it allows for some heavy usage that you’d otherwise be incapable of. The difference between active and passive solar water heaters is simple: active heaters use pumps to force hot air or liquid around, using electricity in the process, while passive heaters skip the pump and let the heated material move itself around, allowing for even larger energy savings in the process. http://choose-water-heaters.blogspot.com Fortunately if you want a solar water heater, you won’t need to have somebody else install it for you. If you opt to build a solar water heater, you can save hundreds more dollars. Many do-it-yourself kits are available for purchase, and you can even build them from scratch (by buying the components separately). Building your very own passive solar water heater affords you even more versatility, so if you can do it yourself, that’s the path you should definitely take.
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April 29th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Thats just great. Have you done any GEET videos like the over 200 videos on youtube? Considering that almost everyone on France has one?
April 29th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
cant wait to see part two!!!
April 29th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
With the aluminum pipes/cans systems, people need to remember to uses the full size of the glass for heat collection, and not use part of it to cover the header/distributer chambers. Glass is sometimes hard to find and should be used for maximum heat collection. The header should be disigned around that then.
April 30th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Also people need to remember that tempered glass cannot usually be cut, only plate glass can be cut. The choice then is to purchase or find the right size of glass needed first, usually temperred glass, but plate glass can work – which can be cut if need be.
April 30th, 2010 at 12:19 am
Dan imagine if we had a lot of these for the air intake you could take an electric dryer that had a bad heating element pepourpose it for clothes drying that would act just like a heating element. I bet you could get the same result placing a bunch of black plastic pipes in direct sun light it would allow good air flow and cut your electric bill with out the inconvience of hanging out the clothes.Reduce grid overloading too.
April 30th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Thumbs up for self portrait!
April 30th, 2010 at 12:35 am
if you live in a colder environment, get multiple layers of glass going to provide a thermal barrier.
as long as the glass is clear, the inside layer that the air flows through will heat really well, and the outer layers will insulate the inner layers. thus providing a barrier against heat loss while still providing the heat you are trying to acquire.
of course, more layers will increase the cost of the project, and possibly reduce the final energy aquired, but it might work well enough.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:52 am
@cdltpx Replaced a heating element few weeks ago
The blower blows air right on the element. So to do this modification you suggest would not be too difficult. Just run an air duct pipe from the dryers blower to the solar heater and a return hose to the exit port of the dryer’s heating element.
April 30th, 2010 at 3:07 am
Great job on the video Dan. looks like a good how to series. I love the instructional detail. surface area is the key.
MUDDy
April 30th, 2010 at 3:08 am
Make it a system where the air that exhaust would heat the lower side of your collector and allow the moisture to vent but try to retain as much of tha heat that you could. If you have the land for it build a shed with solar water and air for washing all you would need to do is run an extension cord 110 to the shed or go solar. This is for those that wash in the day time we have few stay at homes but kids come home at 3 could take care of a load..
April 30th, 2010 at 3:11 am
Craigs list has dryers for free all the time that could be repourposed for this. Most of the energy consumption is in the heating elements you could keep your indoor setup and dry outside when conditions are right for it. Provided you have the space for it.
April 30th, 2010 at 3:17 am
good wood working
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
could you use an old sliding glass door?
April 30th, 2010 at 5:17 am
@cdltpx A solid desiccant could be added to the solar heater to remove the hot water vapor from the dryer’s vented air. You would have two one that was drying air and one that was regenerating. They switch out. During the regeneration step the blower from the dryer would not vent air and a valve would open to allow steam to vent from the solar heated desiccant. That vented steam could also be vented to a heat exchanger that would heat the dry air up that was exiting the other solar heater.
April 30th, 2010 at 7:16 am
Almost remnds me of Norm Abram…
April 30th, 2010 at 7:33 am
You have too much puddles in your working place, friggin mosquito paradise…
April 30th, 2010 at 7:34 am
@Naturepheonix Where do you live? Such nice weather, I definitely need to check that area out!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:07 am
“You could use it for…I don’t know; hobbies or whatever.” Lol!
April 30th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
@27falcor Yes,
Any window glass will work.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
I am glad you did a vid on this bud.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
what does the finished project looks like, and does it work? can you show us please?
May 1st, 2010 at 11:03 am
I would love to see this installed and functioning!
May 1st, 2010 at 4:44 pm
like the self portrait!
May 1st, 2010 at 6:59 pm
that piece of glass looks really thick. I think it would cost more than $25.