Archive for January, 2006

Cooking with the Sun

Monday, January 9th, 2006

This is a parabolic solar cooker at a Permaculture homestead in central Vermont. It is turned away from the sun in the photo, but rotate it 180 degrees and aim it at the Sun and within minutes, things are really heating up! There are different kinds of solar cookers and many are easy to make […]

Vegetable Power

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Follow the link below to find out about biodiesel, supplies and instructions for making it, kits to run your diesel engine on recycled cooking oil and more.
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Visit My Solar System

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Here’s the solar panel I recently mounted on the roof. It produces 100+ watts at 12 volts. The wires run through a waterproof gasket into the vehicle and down to the charge controller:

The charge controller takes the electricity from the panel on the roof, charges the batteries and sends the current to the fuse block […]