How To Use Passive Solar Energy For Heating Your Home


All of us know how it’ll be like if we leave our car for too long under the sun. It will pretty much turn the inside of our car into an oven. Sunlight can actually raise the temperature inside our car to as high as 160 Fahrenheit in the summer! That’s hot folks, it is hot enough to crack the plastic dashboard.

Why does this happens? Glass, being a transparent material allows light in but it traps the heat. This is commonly known as the greenhouse effect.

How do we make use of this free, passive, clean and abundantly available solar energy for our home?

By utilizing the concept of greenhouse effect, we can use it to heat up air and circulate it around our house to warm the rooms in the winter months.

Commercially available solar air heater is quite expensive. If you are looking for one, be prepared to invest as much as $1000 for a unit.

A cheaper alternative is to make the solar air heater yourself. How do we do this? Check out the video below to see how it is done.

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How to Use Solar Air Heater to Reduce Your Home Electricity Cost


If you were to do a complete home energy audit, most probably you will find the electrical devices which consumed the most electricity is your heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system. If you were to find a way to make your HVAC more efficient, the money you saved will be quite substantial.

Are there any ways to use solar power for your HVAC? Since the air-conditioning unit uses quite a lot of power, there are not many solar powered equipment which can replace it.

There is one device that I found which can create warm air in your home by using solar energy, the device call Solarventi solar air heater. The Solarventi was invented in Denmark as a device mainly to circulate warm air in homes.

The Solarventi is 100 percent solar powered therefore it is essentially free to run once it is installed on your home. Since 2001, more than 20,000 units of Solarventi have been sold in the European region. Pretty impressive record!

Solarventi is built as a maintenance free device. It uses solar energy to warm the fresh air in the solar collector. The warm air is then ducted into your home via a ducting fan powered by a small Photovoltaic (PV) panel.

So how can the Solarventi solar air heater help you to reduce your home energy consumption?

Let’s take your home laundry as an example. Do you use a tumbler dryer? Since it has a heating element, the dryer can consume quite a large amount of electricity.

When it is raining outside or during winter time, you do not have much choices to dry your clothes other than using the tumbler dryer. Here’s how the Solarventi solar air heater can help.

Take a small room in your home and make it into a clothes drying area. Have it completely sealed off.

Use the Solarventi solar air heater to generate warm air and vent it into the room using a solar powered air ventilator. If possible, have the vent output at the floor level because hot air will rise up.

Now, you have a room which has circulating warm air which you can use to dry all of your laundry and yet you are not consuming any electricity because all the devices from the solar air heater to the vent fan is powered by solar energy.

DIY Home Solar Power Guide

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Mr. Long Arm 1008 Review – Solar Panel Cleaning Kit

If you are using a home solar power system, how often do you clean the Photovoltaic (PV) panels? Solar panels seldom work at its maximum efficiency due to several factors such as cloud covers, angle of the panel to the sun, shadow overcast, haze, dust etc. Most of these factors, there is nothing much you can do other than cleaning the solar panel.

Since most residential solar panels are installed on the roof, cleaning them can be a major chore. To make the washing and cleaning of the PV panels easier, Mr. Long Arm has introduced its 1008 Pro Curve solar panel cleaning kit.

One of the key features of Mr. Long Arm 1008 is its extension pole. The pole can be extended from 5 to 8 feet length. If you are 6 feet tall and with your arm extended, using the 1008 you can reach a maximum of approximately 16 feet all the way to the side of your roof.

The 1008 Pro Curve comes with a 12 inches and 18 inches channel squeegee rubber. It also has the 18 inches and 22 inches wash bar and wash sleeve attachments.

With this tool, cleaning your solar panels shouldn’t be much of an issue. All you have to do is get yourself out into your yard and do the cleaning. If you rather have someone else do the cleaning for your, pay one of the neighborhood kid to do it instead.

Since you’ve invested a large amount of money installing your home solar power system, you might as well extract the most power out of it. The heart of the system, the solar array has to be cleaned a couple of times a year in order for it to function properly. With Mr. Long Arm 1008 PV panel cleaning kit, getting the job done will be a bit easier for you.

Homemade Solar Power System

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