Aluminium foil solar home heater

I expanded to 174 sq ft of aluminium foil. My home temperature jumped to 74F without my thermostat turned on at all. My home is entirely heated by the Almighty Sun all day... I save $$$ I pay to my utility and Big Oil & Gas & Tobacco & Firewood! I aim to heat my home to 100F with further expansion of my solar reflector system to 300 or 400 sq ft. Bookmark me!

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[ThanksgivingWalk]

Loved the info and enjoyed the music!

I'm thinking of using a combo of aluminum foil and recycled potatoe chip bags; the inside of some of the chip bags are strong and highly reflective material. Also, I believe the inside of some of the helium balloons are simliar reflective materials.

Thanks so much for posting this!

[junkyardnut]

Sure, I better start saving my potato chip bags , too. Also, I use Elmer's glue for outdoors not indoors. It is the cheapest glue around if you buy by gallon jugs. Only $15 or so. I mix it with water 1 to 1 ratio to thin the thick glue down for easier brushing on the boards and it dries more slowly thus giving you more time to install foil. It can get sloppy easily as your hands may get smears of the glue. That is why it helps to mix with water to slow down the drying and give you time to wash

[ThanksgivingWalk]

Thanks for the cost saving's recipe! :)

[junkyardnut]

Also I forgot to mention that it is important to find really smooth survace like ping pong table or hollow core interior doors commonly . Remodelers routinely throw them away. Or you can buy masonite boards or actually hollow core doors at Home Depot or Lowes. Hollow core doors are very light which makes it easy to mount safely. Put them up as if they are solar shelves at bottom of your windows outside that faces the sun. I am going to do that soon. It will brighten your ceilings.

[jab0805]

Good job. I will use this concept to increase the heat on the solar furnace I just built. Can't wait to test it. Cheap and totally awesome.I will post my results.Thanks for the video.

[junkyardnut]

i saw your latest clip . I cannot see how you can increase the heat on your solar furnace that faces south . I suggest you move it to your northern side and you can mulitply reflectors against it that way. You will need a meat thermometer instead.. It can go well above 120F..

[leadpelletinass]

AWESOME BOSS SOLUTION!! But how do you heat the place from sundown til sunup? This is a solution I am researching. Some way to store the heat so it lasts all night or possibly several nights if you have stormy weather and the sun cannot warm your place like usual?

[djgoetschius]

what are the materials needed for this?

[Moneymax3001]

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[scrfambledegs]

interesting  could be used in many ideas..uhm food for thought so to speak

[HappyJackProduction1]

@ThanksgivingWalk its called mylar

[215alessio]

3 fuel providers didn't like the video

anyway good work :) 

[mojokiss]

great great great idea. it works and its cheap and has no moving parts! Good for people with a backyard on the north side of their house. If you ever wanna talk shop I'm here! I am into cheap not electrical solutions to the infrastructure. I draw new ideas up often its fun. Peace! (I took down a lot of my invention demonstration videos a while back due to my own paranoia)

[astrialkil]

@junkyardnut Don't get rid of your fire place! It could keep you alive during an emergency! Just change the top of chimney to steel tube or add reflectors to keep masonry cool!

[astrialkil]

@junkyardnut try using "space blankets" they are cheep and reflect pretty good!

[astrialkil]

@junkyardnut you should focus your reflected light threw your sliding glass doors on to a black plastic 55 gal water barrel to store the heat for the night. this would help with the glare as the light would be focused away from where your sitting and on to the barrel.