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Close up of my solar reflectors for heating my home. See how utterly simple this is to make for yourselves, too.. I reused old lumber and painted them to extend its life. I spent very little.. You can cross off utiility bill off your budget book and free up more of your disposable spending.. Firewood is dirtier than coal!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1IHXv09dN8&feature=channel_page


What you see in this clip is simple solar reflectors that bounces back sunlight from the southern sky ... As any of you should know ,, everyone's house in the Northern Hemisphere has a shady northern side where the sun never strikes to heat.. Dont u se parabolic mirrors or fresnic lenses to heat your house directly as it can set your house on fire... Just use plain aluminium foil glued on flat boards of all sorts and make it as big as you can .. Mine is 210 square foot and it is heating my house on my estimated equivalent of 20,000 to 40,000 btu depending on the intensity of sunlight as it sails across the sky. Aluminium foil is not highly efficient reflector maybe 50% or so unlike special reflector foils being sold by alternate energy shops that hovers around 95%. but mine do deliver heat and you can multiply several boards into one area through windows safely... Perhaps you can move your house plants off the windows.. as it will dry up faster... But you will enjoy same warmth you would get from dirty firewood and undesired smoke blanketing your neighborhood..

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[toob247]

I wonder if you used mylar , a cheap way would be the foil xmas paper , the kind with the mylar back , would that do better than the more diffused light from the aluminum foil?

[junkyardnut]

@toob247 I am just demonstrating a concept on heating homes with free sunlight. It is strangely long enough that no manufacturer has yet to come up with one! All they care to do is to make photovoltaics or solar water heaters . Where is the space heaters ?? My concept here suggests that you can capture sunlight around your house and direct it toward your house. All houses and buildings has shady northern sides that never saw the sun all day, if you notice that.

[junkyardnut]

@toob247 Also you notice one of my boards is smooth . It is a hollow interior door made of masonite which works great with aluminium foil. YOu can try gift mylar paper . It may be harder to glue on than aluminium foil.. Aluminium foil gives off mellow warmth with less glare than mirrors and mylar.

[specallez]

Try painting your fences white that should help a little bit.

[junkyardnut]

No way! I dont need it.. I am redesigning my solar reflectors and it is going to be much more powerful and concnetrated than before. keep tuned

[toob247]

@junkyardnut yeah youre right about glare. I think it's cool what you did. I kinda did the same thing to boost my home made solar water heating system for the pool. I'd like to try or see some results with mirrors pointed at the can air heaters...

[junkyardnut]

The government is not offering any tax credits specifically for heliostats. Those industries makikng heliostats are selling to the utililities mostly for research purposes usually. Those heliotsats are so highly accurate suitable for long distance reflection as far away as hundreds of feet. I dont need those $10,000 heliostats. I need $29.95 plastic molded sprayed on shiner variety that is fine for close reflection less than 15 feet or so. It works great for me and I am waiting for someone

[wjj4832]

Do a YouTube search on "Heliostat" - There's an industry for addressing that phenomenon. I'd like to have some set up myself, if only I had a place in my front yard...

[junkyardnut]

Excellent! now go around to the shady northern side if you have windows there , too. you will enjoy the underused cold area more there as well. you know what is interesting ,too? Nobody is talking about it which is that you got to understand that anything you put up that creates shadows on your sunny side, you got a minus yourself. That is why solar rooftops is not a great idea. The rooftop need warmth from the sun . It is a theory of mine .

[wjj4832]

I've set up wall mirrors on the ledges directly outside windows on the south side. They bounce light up onto the ceilings of a bedroom and my living room, giving me free light and a little bit of passive heat. works great, and maximum reflectivity.