We are looking at making a solar icemaker to generate ice for our home food refridgeration use. I have the plans for the 'A Solar Ammonia Absorption Icemaker'...
Hello Joe, Have you been to the Solar Ice Company's website. They're the folks that make and market the ISAAC Solar Ice Maker. Here's a link to them ...
I just looked at the aluminum reflecter they use to consentrate the sun, I have 3 of them I removed from a domestic hot water heating system, I havent measured...
I think I've read everything on their website. Nothing that I saw gives any sort of even high level plans. Maybe I missed something? Thanks, Joe ... -- Joe...
Here is a link to the plans I have for the unit from the Home Power magazine. http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com/solarice.pdf Has anyone built one? Any...
Howdy I use the van body of an old meat delivery truck. The cab had been removed and an insulated wall placed at front. It was welded up with a trailer hitch...
This is a repost from Christmas 2005, when I was in the city, fixing up a house that I sold there. I ran across it recently while transferring files. I enjoyed...
I have a similar idea for when i get a roundtuet. It is to put foam panels on the walls then regular panneling over that creating a double wall inside a spare...
I have 8 of the 330 gal poly totes rigged with sumps so I can sump the bottom oil/sludge/water off after sitting, there is not much but some. All of the tanks...
Its been in the 30's for the past week or so in the NYC area and I cant help but wonder why I am running a refrigerator inside my home which is an almost...
For whatever it be worth in the old days they had a box that fit thru the window like a windo air conditioner with an insulated lid or door inside maybe that...
From: "Jack Baker" <amature53@...> ... Hi Jack; It really wouldn't even need to stick through the window. It only needs to be an isulated box that sticks...
Yup, BUT,,, Only when an ice storm takes out the power. Then I get out the coolers and put the fridge stuff in them and some go on the porch and others get...
I'd think better than cutting a whole in the wall and pushing your whole fridge thru it would be to cut a hole for duct work a put a small fan, hooked to a...
Hi Glenn, We have put our refrigerator in a cabinet that is vented to the outdoors, underneath and on the north side of the house. In our location in the high...
From: "gzukoff" <gzukoff@...> ... Hi Glenn; You will find plenty of posts on the subject, in our group archive, including how to store the coolness of...
... Anybody who wants to take this further with grant applications, etc. and a structured program, I will do what I can to spearhead the effort. Experimental...
I would consider building a closet in the outside north wall with an insulated exterior door and an opening on the inside for the refer door. 6" insulated ...
... In the UK the discrepancy between gas and electric prices is even bigger. A few years ago the government made the comparatively enlightened step of...
In Loren Corie's interesting discussion about resistance heat equivalency replacing heat that would otherwise be supplied by the space heating device, the only...
Why not just an entire out door kitchen? I laid out plans for a house with a large screened in room that was build behind the house... it was going to be my...
... We don't have the flat rate service charge as such but I assume the high prices for the first part of the usage is intended as the equivalent. For August,...