Having hot water for showers and dish washing is certainly a joy that makes off-grid feel as luxurious as on-grid, yet without utility bills or fossil fuels. Where I live, summer sunshine is abundant, ...

It's not glamorous. The principles are simple. It's time-tested and can work virtually anywhere. It could save the United States millions of barrels of oil every year, and it doesn't involve a large ...

Taking a hot shower can literally mean pouring money down the drain. The average American household spends almost $300 pear ...

When the “Go Solar!” battle cry first went up decades ago, handy folks with a knack for plumbing and carpentry put their skills to work designing custom systems that fit their precise solar vision.

It took a while to decode the email I received from Carroll Hampleman (you can see why below), but his home made water heater is worth the bother. Mirrors are arranged to reflect and concentrate the ...

We live in interesting times. Never before have we witnessed so much change in so little time. Whether we resist or embrace change, it is still inevitable, but if we actively embrace the changes we ...

[Peter Sobey] had a solar hot water heater installed in his home, which worked great until he relocated his kitchen to a neighboring room. Now a good bit further from the tank, the hot water reaching ...

A research group from Ireland developed a PVT system consisting of a 170 W photovoltaic panel connected to a water tank placed at the backside of the PV module itself. The PVT module is able to ...

WARWICK — For Jerry Fischetti, the proof that solar hot water works is in his wallet. A month after he supplemented the existing hot water heater in his Village of Warwick home with one powered by the ...

Nearly 40 years after California began offering inducements to people to heat their shower water using the sun, Brad Heavner of the California Solar Energy Industries Association still has to remind ...