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Solar Homes & Solar Collectors
Solar energy is our birthright like the air we breathe or the water we drink. Solar Home Plans and affordable Solar Hot Water Plans are the gateway into a "Solar Age" of energy independence. Fossil fuels are no longer necessary to keep the wheels of civilization turning. Build your own solar heating system with an MTD Solar Collector Kit. Explore the Strawberry Fields Book Store for more information. Alternative energies like solar energy will increase in value as fossil fuel prices escalate. Solar collectors, solar hot water systems, heat storage vaults, photovoltaic electricity, solar panels, solar greenhouses and solar house plans will become more important in this century. According to Buckminster Fuller "We have wondered too far from the roots." An energy crisis can only be avoided only if we learn to rely on a diffuse, sustainable resource like the sun. .
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Do-it-yourself solar thermal projects
can make us more energy independent. The greenhouse effect is a miracle
of nature that makes trapping heat possible. Without this method of
trapping heat our tiny planet would be a frozen waste land like the
Moon. A conscious effort to make better use of this miracle of nature can
free us from dependence on non renewable resources and allow us to at last live
in a sustainable economy unfettered by the restraints of big business and big
government. The greenhouse effect
is something that all domestic solar thermal systems have in common....
Solar collectors
also use the greenhouse effect
to capture
the sun's energy. Both solar collectors and solar greenhouses are able to harvest
the suns energy in the form of heat. Greenhouses and Trombe Walls use air to
transfer heat and Collectors use water or a combination of water and antifreeze.
Two of these serpentine collectors cover a surface area 60 square feet.
The glazing is more durable than glass and much lighter.
See what people are saying about "How to Build a Solar Hot Water
System" and this do-it-yourself collector design on my Testimonial
page
Solar Panels are very much different than solar collectors. They use selective wavelengths of light to produce electricity and they work best in direct sunlight at a low temperature. Large PV systems are still quite costly. They use inverters to convert DC panel power to compatible AC power. This AC power is often interfaced with the grid so that solar energy may be shared with others.
Solar Charge Controllers are used maintain an adequate charge on batteries. Solar Heat Controllers are used to collect, store and distribute solar heat.
This
an AC/DC Differential
Controller . It responds to the difference in temperature between collector
and storage and turns an AC or DC pump on and off to maximize the heat harvest
from a solar hot water or solar heating system. Temperature monitors are
used to display the actual temperatures inside the collector and inside the heat
storage tank, but the controller will function without them. This AC/DC
controller consumes
less than 1 watt of power per hour yet it is capable of regulating 500 Watt pumps.
This is a rugged, dependable, analog Differential Controller.
The multi-functional, programmable, digital-controller, below may also be used to control a solar heat harvest in differential mode. It may also be used in the "heat loop mode" to maintain a uniform household temperature from stored solar heat stored. the Solar Heat Controller comes in an attractive wooden case and has been designed to hide all wire connections for probes, power and relay behind a wall. It activates an external relay which in turn drives a pump to harvest or distribute solar heat.
All, active, solar thermal systems use differential controllers to collect and store solar heat for domestic solar hot water but the deluxe solar heat controller, above may also be used to regulate the home solar heating system.
Building
plans for solar collectors, heat storage vaults and entire solar hot water system are available from the Strawberry Fields Solar Book Store
. Notice there's no chimney
on this house because the only source of home heating comes from the sun. It's simple one
story hexagonal solar home is 32 ft in diameter, with a full basement, a
1000 gallon heat storage vault and a 250 sq. ft. solar thermal roof.
Join the Solar Thermal Energy Group
and discover the kind of solar home that's right for your taste. Become part of part of the new age of energy independence and take a stand
against global warming and big business.
This house is a bit more
conventional.
It's based on a Harry E Thompson's Trickle Down solar thermal roof system but
it's been modified to for easy installation on top of an existing roof.
I call this new concept Modified
Trickle Down solar
heating or MTD Solar Heating
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