If your garage door faces south you can build a set of passive solar doors that will provide heat and light, reducing your energy expenses during winter for around $400 in materials.

We recently featured one way to heat your house with the sun, but DIYer Daniel Strohl has spent three years perfecting his homemade solar garage heater, made out of a wooden box, some vacuum parts ...

If renewable is the goal for heating your garage, solar is a good place to start, as the sun is indeed a provider of free, ...

This solar heating plan is a system that works with almost any home. The solar collectors are built into a small, new building, and the hot water storage tank fits into the new building, too. The ...

Solar space heating is tricky. Air is harder to keep warm than water, and while most of us need a shower on a hot day—we tend to want space heating when the sun is not doing enough for us.

DIY Solar Hot Water Heater. ... 100% Hot-Water-Heating. Take a SOLAR SHOWER. Build your own HOT-TUB. Each Hour, ON THE HOUR, these units will slightly move - to "Aim" at the sun.

The garage got hot in the summer, too, but I solved that problem with solar-powered ventilation fans, plus a cheap air conditioner for the really hot days. Murilee Martin Insulation and paneling ...

I spent $118.28 on shower supplies, plus $99 on supplies for the solar water heater, not including the car battery and inverter. Your costs will likely vary, depending on what supplies you have on ...

DIY water heating has a cost for the grid At present, most people can’t directly use rooftop solar to heat water. Solar and hot water are generally installed on different circuits, even in ...

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Materials Needed to Build Your Own Wind Turbine . We've previously covered Daniel Connell's open-source concentrated solar collector plans, but he has also published another great DIY renewable ...

At its core, this concept is kind of like transforming your garage into a pseudo greenhouse, with the U.S. Department of Energy detailing that passive solar heating requires abundant windows ...