Even though it’s the best time of the year, it’s still quite cold. Some locations are so cold that a prolonged power outage could be fatal. A solar furnace is one technique to heat your home without using any fuel or firewood. Ideally, you’ve prepared your house for winter and have various ways to heat it without power.
On a sunny day, a solar furnace may provide adequate heating for a single room. If the electricity went out, you wouldn’t have to use any of your fuel, which would be excellent. Just make sure to place it on your home’s south side.
This is what you require:
-two panes of glass.
-black pastic sheet, 3 feet by 5 feet.
-two 3 feet long, 2 by 10 inch pieces of lumber.
-two 5 foot long, 2 by 10 inch pieces of lumber.
-A second piece of wood that is the same width as your window.
-Pipes and elbows made of ABS or PVC.
-a typical dryer hose
-spray paint in black.
Here’s how to build it:
-Utilize all of the 3 and 5-foot pieces of lumber to construct the frame.
Affix the black plastic sheet to the frame’s side.
-Make a hole in the frame’s one end that is big enough to fit the pipe.
-Connect the pipes into an adjacent window from the frame’s end.
-To make sure everything fits inside the frame, attach the dryer hose to the opposite side of the hole and wind it back and forth.
-The dryer hose should be black-sprayed.
-Window panes should be attached.
-On the sixth piece of lumber, drill holes. For the heater’s exhaust pipe, there is one hole. The intake to suck air out of the house is located in the opposite hole.
Install the intake and exhaust pipes, then close the window against the piece of lumber.