Find The Sun - How to find your latitude, solar noon, true south, and other calculations you need to properly point your house and solar panels to absorb the sun!
Solar camping, including sizing a small pv system.
Electrical Load Calculation -How Much Power Does Your Renewable System Need?
http://www.absak.com/design/load.htmlPV System Sizing - Interactive tutorial
Solar
Thermal - Water Thermal - Air Photo - Voltaic (PV)
Solar PV FAQ's
Home Made PV Cells - http://www.angelfire.com/ak/egel/flatcell.html
Home Made Concentrating Lens - http://rehll.com/lens.html
Build Your Own Solar Water Heater
How to Build a Solar Hot Water System
Stan's Solar Shower
Just rustled up a SURPRISINGLY effective solar water heater ,used for early evening garden showering after beach swimming nearby. It's based around a stainless steel shower tray, an old window + garden hose fittings & presently gets some 90 litres (~ 20 gallons )to good shower temps (~mid 40s C) by 5pm - enough for 3 great showers. Guess this saves (US$) ~50c energy daily = easily pays for itself in a summer, since total cost only some US$20 - less if you've got such "junk" just lying around already (as I did ).
No tricky piping - it's totally separate from your household plumbing, & conveniently also allows cooler water for hand washing/plant
watering /pet bowls earlier in the day. See pix & DIY details => http://manuka.orcon.net.nz/solarh2o.jpg
Unlike some DIY "black pipe" systems, the water doesn't get TOO hot & also there's a LOT of it available. Down side is water cools after dark back to normal by about midnight, so useless for a morning (hot) shower! Easily packed away after summer too, or maybe even setup quickly for that weekend cottage in the wilds ?
Stan. SWAN -Wellington, NZ ( 2000 hours bright sun annually- temperate maritime climate - snow unknown but can get windy ) Feb. 2003
Selective Surface coatings for collectors - http://www.solec.org/solkoteframe.htm
SOLKOTE HI/SORB-II is an optical coating specifically formulated for solar thermal applications. Its successful worldwide use since 1982 is based upon the following unique features:
Build Your Own Solar Air Heater - Style 1
Build Your Own Solar Air Heater - Style 2
Bill and Kathryn Kreamer
Sol-Air Company
129 Miller St.
Belfast, Maine, U.S.A. 04915
Tel 207-338-9513
Fax 208-978-7839
Email kreamer@adelphia.net
Instructions (1mg PDF)
Directory of SRCC Certified Solar Water Heater System Ratings (720kb PDF)
How to Make a Solar Power Generator for Less Than $300
Solar Chimneys and Cooling Towers
Cooling technology with Solar source
Education:
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES and WORKSHOPS
in
Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy
and
Sustainable Development
Solar Cooking:
Half the inhabitants of Earth cook over woodfires -- 45% of the world's wood is used as fuel. And nearly 2.4 billion people are now facing shortages of fuelwood. Meanwhile deforestation helps cause climate change, floods and soil erosion, increasing environmental degradation, and increasing poverty and hunger.
There's one simple answer to these problems, that can save millions of trees, provide clean, safe drinking water, doesn't smoke, and that costs just about nothing -- solar box cookers, made from cardboard cartons.
Cooking with Solar Energy is simple, hassle-free, nutritious, fun, and best of all, FREE! - welcome to the newest, most innovative cooking webzine in your community. Inside these pages are LOTS of PICTURES. - http://www.solarcook.com/
SunSpot Maidenhead, England, UK
Solar Pool Heating:
Acro Solar Lasers - It’s a computer guided/managed dish type mirrored parabolic solar energy collector of direct heat. It heats Homes, Pools, Spas, Domestic Water, Green Houses, and other Industrial Applications.
Aquatherm introduces a breakthrough in Solar Technology...the Ecosun Solar Collector!