Build-It-Solar Blog

Carl came up with this very simple and effective solar batch heater that heats up one bucket of water. You put the 5 gallon bucket into the ...

Chris and Brenda are looking for ways to control energy expenses through retirement and built this very nice and very high quality solar wat...

Todd Hudson is having an open house on May the 23rd and 24th of his amazing Bio-Home in Lethbridge Alberta CA. The house has a very impres...

John provides a very detailed description of a small and portable solar generation system that can provide power for emergencies or camping ...

This is a catch up on some new and interesting projects I've seen around the web and and added links to in Build It Solar. Four very in...

Just started a newsletter for Build-It-Solar. The plan is to publish the newsletter about once a month.  It will give a brief description ...

When you think about what goes on energy wise when you take a shower, its mind boggling wasteful. Your hot water tank heats up several gallo...

Russell has a unique and effective solar heating system for his greenhouse. On sunny days, the system takes excess heat from the peak of th...

David lives in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia with hot and dry summers. He is working on a simple and inexpensive and very energy efficien...

Peter lives in a remote and beautiful area of  Costa Rica and was looking for a simple solar water heating system that could be built with...