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Solar Hot Water, Solar Hot Air, Solar Cooking For the most up to date information, visit our new website, gaiasagrada.com. Solar hot water and heat is easier than you think! You don't need solar panels to create solar hot water or even solar heat. Yes, you need solar panels to create electrical power to run electronics and appliances, but hot water and heat, it is easy! Passive solar is simply where the sun warms up a physical object (air, water or even a cement or stone floor), and that object then radiates heat. Solar hot water is generated by running tubes on the roof of a building, under glass if you want extremely hot water. Solar heat is generated the same way, with very large dryer sized black tubes under glass in the sun. The sun heats up the air and the water in the tubes. Easy! The real trick is knowing how to install these systems on roofs or walls and maintain the integrity of the building, but any builder knows how to do this. Our Ecuadorian builders are quite interested in the hot water and air ideas, and can easily duplicate it for their own personal use. This is the idea! Gaia Sagrada can show by example to our Ecuadorian neighbors what can be done for very little, and be "off the grid" in this way when it comes to hot water and air. Anyone can do it, even people without technological prowess. Here are some links to solar hot water and solar hot air systems, which might give you some ideas. Solar Hot Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTO4aQZ9LI8 a do it yourself water heater in the sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU6I9YU6ihE an easier do it yourself water heater in the sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOY49bH7Ocg another solar water heater in South America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpZZuAezMI water heater in curled tubing Solar Hot Air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXN_1Kf18_I a tubeless hot air solar heater for heat in a room http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQVGhn8KRU hot air heater made with soda cans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWK4Ih0VQo4 another one made with soda cans and also rainspouts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqOnalvUSuM hot air heater Solar Cooking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofn7jqPDTeY solar ovens, stoves http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=RSHL39DMD9k solar oven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsBpPz_6oIo make a solar oven http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=VwlsrFNutjI parabolic solar cooker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhhXGF8hE20 amazing cookers
And that's just to get you started! We are trying some of these things at Gaia Sagrada and you can too!
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Solar hot water and heat is easier than you think! You don't need solar panels.
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