subject: Make Your Own Solar Water Heater - Simple Heaters [print this page] Every week, we hear in the news about the rising prices of oil in the world market. Along with this is the news about how it will affect our economy most especially the cost of electricity. The electricity that powers our homes and the appliances that we use are being generated by the use of the expensive oil in the world market. This is the reason why you should know how to make your own solar water heater.
Water heaters usually consume a lot of electricity but we could not live without it most especially during the winter. By having a water heater powered by an alternative energy, you are assured that you will not be greatly affected by the volatile market price of oil. One of these alternative energy sources that could be easily harnessed is solar power.
Contrary to those being portrayed in popular media, the technology to make your own solar water heater is already available. There are already many guides written about it. Some could be very technical about how to do it while there are others that were especially written for ordinary people like you and me.
The simplest of the guides available in making your water heated by solar panels could be easily accomplished by using an old refrigerator radiator as the heating mechanism, a block of wood to serve as base and a glass pane to allow the sunshine pass through. This may seem to be too simple to do. But what I have just described is the most basic way of building a solar-powered water heater. There are other designs where it would let you store the solar energy so that the water heater will still work during the night or when it is raining.
Knowing how to make your own solar water heater could assure you that you could save at least 30% from electric bills, money that you could spend in other important things.
