Eco-Thinker

This is how to make passive solar heater for under $20 or so. It is basically a greenhouse box. Simple yet brilliant. It is environmentally friendly (after it is assembled), green, handy, forehead slappingly easy to make, and even an awesome project for shop class. Ok so it will not become school curriculum, but most agree it should be damn it! grumble government subsidies grumble greed and priorities and blah…watch this and learn!

Unplug the clock and forget the batteries.
How cool are these little things! The greener your home, the less expensive your bill. Plus you can feel proud knowing your home is that much less dependent on the “grid”.

This is a great reminder to those of us with noisy gas guzzling lawn mowers. Until recently I did not have a yard to mow and I still have the same old push mower sitting on empty. No time like the present to make an eco-friendly switch. It is also easier on your hearing. The newer models are not as bulky and heavy as earlier models you might be reminded of, mainly due to plastic parts, but at least it doesn’t burn gasoline.

Here is a great example of how you can generate heat from home using, what appears to be, a Direct TV dish or something similar, and creating a make shift parabolic dish using solar thermal. The tiny mirror solar collectors look well placed on the dish, and it is obviously producing considerable heat. It is not often we get to see a home video of a simple technology that has uses far beyond cooking wieners and heating soup. This is not just entertaining and educational. This is a fascinating technology that has been given inadequate exposure thanks to our planet polluting overindulgence of fossil fuels.