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Hybrid Car
For Emergency Power
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$2K Solar Space and Water Heating System
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Bubblewrap Window Insulation
The simplest and cheapest way ever to cut window heat
loss a
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Bubblewrap Window Insulation
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Our DIY Grid-Tied PV System
h3
Tom Restores a Jacobs Wind Turbine Project
h3
Cooling with
Landscaping
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2200 Gallon Water Harvest System
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Solar Home in the Sierras
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Tom's PEX/Aluminum solar pool heating collector
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Bill's Solar Cooking Projects
h3
Dozens of� Experimental Designs, New Ideas, Prototypes
and Emerging Energy Technology
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Conversion of VW Jetta Diesel to Burn Vegetable Oil
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George's DIY Parabolic Concentrating Collectors
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An Undershot Water Wheel for
Electricity Generation
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Using bubble wrap to reduce window heat loss --
effective and cheap
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A Collection of plans and design information for solar
powered wood drying kilns.
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Solar and wind powered water pumping
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Doug's Solar Greenhouse and Sunspace
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Restoring an ElecTrak and Using It for Backup Solar
Electric Power
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Giving LED Lighting a Try in Our House
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The Solar Heated Ice Fishing Shack
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The Half Program - 23 Projects We Used to Cut Our
Energy Use in Half
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-Innovative trickle down collector solar water heating system...
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-6.3 KW DIY
grid-tied PV system...
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-Innovative, energy efficient, solar heated, cost effective solar
home in Montana...
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-Measuring noise levels in the camper van to determine effectivness
of noise treatments...
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-A
unique strawbale arch home desing -- great for owner
built homes-- many unique design det
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-Some additions
to hydro pageand flow of river hydro page...
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-Lifetime fuel use and emissions for ProMaster Camper
Conversion...
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-A nice DIY design for effective and attractive thermal
shades...
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-A DIY solar water heater for pigs...
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-A DIY Arduino based solar water heating
controller...
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-Campervan conv -- first trip lessons and fuel econonomy...
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-Campervan conversion -- a weight summary for conversion and
payload...
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-Camper van conversion -- adding running
boards...
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-A unique full wall solar space heating collector using a
serpentine drain back collector --
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-1 year update on Peter's Costa Rica
thermosyphon solar water heating system...
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-Camper van conversion -- thermal shades
heat loss test...
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-Camper van conversion -- homemade composting toilet...
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-Very good presentation on hydronic heating
systems for energy efficient homes...
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-FSEC paper on attic temperatures for various roof
constructions...
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-DIY white coating a black tar roof for cooling...
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-Road
trip mpg for 2010 Prius trip to SW...
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-A very easy to build portable solar generator for
emergencies....
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-Detailed instructions on making collector fins from recycled
printer's plates...
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-Construction manual for a thermosyphon solar water heater for warm
climates...
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-Biomeiler - detials on a project that extracts heat from large
compost piles -- up to 24 mon
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-Sources of material of aluminum collector fins including one
free source...
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-Added some new
material on PEX properties (bend rad, temps, pres
drop...)...
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A DIY gray water heat exchanger to capture energy from
shower drain...
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An efficient solar home in upstate NYwith a long track
record...
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Solar greenhouse stores excess daytime heat via water to
air heat exchanger...
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Alex Wilson on Heat Pump Water Heaters in the winter...
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Simple and efficient space cooling scheme from AU that
uses water cooled by radiation to t
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A very simple bucket at a time solar batch water
heater....
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Update on Chad's AC evaporative cooling of condenser
coil project...
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Update on Chad's pivoting solar heating collector
project...
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A
simple solar water heater for warm climate...
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Five year update on Gordon's deep energy retrofit...
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- 2013 update on
the Half Program...
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- A
highly sustainable and solar heated loo -- very nice....
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-Mounting large insulated glass glazing units in a sunspace...
h4
-A DIY installation of a Ground Source Heat Pump AND 5 KW
PV array-- no heat bills and low em
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-Very interesting video tour of sandbed seasonal storage solar
home in Michigan...
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-Air duct
temperature drop calculator...
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-Alan Rushforth on building large cylindrical solar heat
storage tanks...
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-The Dumont super insulated Saskatchewan -- simple technology
with great efficiency...
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-Adding a backup heating system to the $2K Solar Space and Water
Heating System...
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-The passive solar bird bath is back...
h4
-A new section of backdraft dampers for solar air heating
collectors-- several DIY and commer
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-A
couple new entries on the micro hydro page...
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-Buried and encapsulated HVAC ducts in
the attic...
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-DIY solar lighting for dim parts of the
house during the day...
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-A little freeze problem on the Solar
Shed (see the Dec 9, 2013 update)...
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-PV powered pool pump...
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-New section on efficiently powering
pool pumps...
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-Our Home Power article on Low Thermal Mass Sunspaces...
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-Working on a good over window solar
collector design...
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-Changing to more efficient DVR saves 310 KWH and 500 lbs of CO2
emissions per year...
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-Reading your gas meter...
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-Several more schemes for freeze
protecting stock watering systems...
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-A very nicely done solar space heating system in VA
modeled after our $2K system...
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-Another fascinating passively heated and cooled house in
Colorado using some very unique des
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-Fascinating
passively cooled home in the tropics...
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-A
simple DIY solar firewood dryer...
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-A good design guide for Masonry Heaters...
h4
-Good Chuck Marken article on troubleshooting solar hot water
systems...
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-Update on my treated wood PV mounts ...
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-Good article on insulating basement walls...
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-Some small updates to the Solar Stock Heated Tank -- this is
a good time of year to get goin
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-Maintaining prime for a pump located above the drain back tank...
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- A
grid tie inverter that provides backup power when the
grid is dow without batteries...
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-A homemade thermal imaging camera for cheap...
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-A highly reflective, inexpensive white roof coating for
cooling...
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-A
simple and portable solar cooker...
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-Side by Side test of two popular DIY solar air heating
collectors: Pop Cans vs Screen...
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-SolarDan tests some new CPVC water heating solar collector
designs...
h4
-Tom Gocze's Hot and Cold TV has come to
Youtube. This is a great show for DIY energy nuts (and
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-Nick Pine has a new blog with articles of interest to people
designing and building renewabl
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- Test of various reflective surfaces in
front of a vertical collector to improve performance...
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An innovative solar water cooker.....
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-Making DYE Solar Cells -- a guide to
making dye solar sells as an educational project...
h4
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A simple way to make PV panel mounting racks....
h4
-New section on reflectors to improved solar collector (or
window) performance: design, perfo
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-A Design Challenge: Help ClubRust with solar heating low
income homes ...
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- An advanced model solar airplane
project...
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-
Alliance for Green Heat -- good source of information on
efficiency and emissions for wood
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Web Walk� - May 18, 2013