This is so cool.
I was over at Lifehacker.com (thanks to Treehugger.com for the tip) and found this gem.
It’s one of those “it’s too easy to believe”. I’m sure my dad or my brother-in-law could figure out ways to complicate the design but I’m all about easy and simple since I was not born with an engineering mind.
I’ve wanted to put solar panels on my roof and even planned for it when we built the house by putting in a smurf tube to later pull wire through to my panel. (which I also planned for by building the panel with some room behind it for batteries and a transformer.)
But panels are still somewhat cost prohibitive so I’m going to make one of these solar heaters and see if it does indeed increase the room temperature by 10 degrees. One trip to Home Depot for some supplies and some bartering with my kids for some of their pennies and I’m set. I’ll report later as to how well it works.
Update: From the commenter HOOHASH on the post at Lifehacker comes this gem about a kid in Arizona who did something similar with cans and a radiator.
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