Building Your Own Solar Power Source
Solar power can be found in several different places on the earth. You can find solar power in a parked car, in a building with no air circulating, in a home without windows opened or fans circulating the air.
When you step into any of these places that have been in the sunlight for a while you soon become overpowered by the amount and the intensity of the heat. This kind of heat can be taken and converted into heat that can heat your home, your water, an outbuilding, or any other building you would like to have heat in.
Heating by solar power is a free way of heating. When you heat using solar power you use a source that will direct the heat from the sunlight during the daytime to your solar source. A solar source is a device that you use to attract and trap the heat from the sun.
Just like a car out in the parking lot gets hot when it faces the midday sun and the windows are rolled up. The seats can become very hot, too hot to sit on. These seats are a solar source because they trapped the heat inside and didn’t want to let them go. When this happens the seats will still be warm long after the sun quits shining directly on that car.
Creating a solar source can be easy to do with a little thought put into it. With a solar source you need to think about all the things that attract the sun, such as metal, the color black, glass that is tinted or clear, mirrors and more.
There are many possibilities for using this trapped solar heat to heat your home or water. You’ll need to circulate water through your solar power source so that it will be warmed by the sun’s heat trapped by your source.
Once heated, this water can circulate back into your home and go into a water tank; a hot water tank which requires no natural gas or electricity!
Designing an efficient solar heat system like this can be a somewhat challenging do it yourself project, but it is one which will repay you over time in terms of the money you’ll save on heating and hot water bills. If you’re not feeling up to the challenge, you can also find solar sources inexpensively online and in shops.
Figuring out how to efficiently circulate your solar power source’s trapped heat into your home is the most challenging part of the project, but a well planned and built solar source heating system will save you a significant amount of money on heat in the winter and on hot water bills all year long.
Not only does using solar energy to provide heat and hot water to your home make good sense ecologically, it’s also a great thing for your pocketbook. The sun has great potential to supply energy - it’s up to all of us to tap into this renewable, non-polluting energy source.