How To: Harvest the sun with a homemade solar panel

Harvest the sun! This easy step-by-step tutorial will show you how to build your own solar heating/hot water system. Green energy is the wave of the future. Stop high oil and gas prices.

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AWSOME CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE

oh!

A good session on using Solar Energy

So how do you get the water to and from the house?

ok, I've got that part. How do I heat the water for the hot water. What are my next steps.

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cool! Err, umm I mean hot!

I was looking for a recipe for swordfish and thought about just seeing if something like this could even be done. This is more than awesome; this is fabulous. I KNEW that someone somewhere had this kind of knowledge. Thank you for sharing. We will try it and get back to you. Oh and yes, what are the next steps; hooking it up.

This really shows that YES it can be done. Even I could do this. Thanks for sharing.

ya it seems very accessible
might as well try.

really awesome information-- again, as others have mentioned...where do you go from here? after the box is made?

Great idea, can you hook this up to a shed for hot water. thanks

Very informative

what are the next steps?

Next step:
well you install a water pump to drive the water to your house.. I receommend a high powered shower pump or something similar.

I think it goes from header tank down to inlet threw solar box outlet down to radiator heating system, or into domestic hot water tank, hot water at your finger tip's, for free. 10 out of 10 for this tip.

How can see this bloody video?

Well- you spent 5 minutes telling me how to build a simple box, then you breezed right over the part with filling the coil with glycol? Maybe you could elaborate on that just a bit?