How To Make A Solar-Powered Battery Charger

“The storms that blew through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic on June 29 left us, along with millions of other people and all of the businesses in my town,

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Using An Appleseed Processor To Make Biodiesel

“This is my tutorial for using my Appleseed processor to make biodiesel. Biodiesel is a great way to go green, and cut your carbon footprint quite substantially, not

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Make Your Own Fuel – Alcohol Fuel Basics

“What if there were a fuel that was affordable, renewable, and produced right in your own community? If you’d lived 100 years ago, you would have known all about

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How To Make A Waterwheel

“The first thing you need to decide is how big you want to make the wheel, mine is 5′ 6″ in diameter and is made up of eight

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Building A Parabolic Solar Hot-Water Heater

“For this project I set out to create the solar equivalent of the hot-water tap on a coffee machine: a solar on-demand hot-water heater. I was inspired by the functionality

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How I Built An Electricity Producing Solar Panel

“Several years ago I bought some remote property in Arizona. I am an astronomer and wanted a place to practice my hobby far away from the sky-wrecking light

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How To Turn Water Into Fuel By Building This DIY Oxyhydrogen Generator

“An oxyhydrogen generator, like this one, uses electricity from your car battery to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gasses. Together, these make a fuel that is much

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Solar Panels On A Pergola

“I was hired to build this structure in Monrovia, CA as an arbor to provide shade as well as to be a structure to mount solar panels on

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How To Make A Solar Water Heater From Plastic Bottles

“José Alano is a model of creativity in tackling environmental problems in Brazil. In 2002, the retired mechanic transformed a pile of plastic bottles and cartons into a

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Power From The Tap: Water Motors

“Few people in the western world realize that they have an extra power source available in their household, workshop or factory: tap water. Just before the arrival of

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How To Convert A Washing Machine Into A Water Powered Generator

This video is a step by step guide showing you how to convert a smart drive washing machine into a pelton wheel dc generator making 780 watts, the

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Wind Cube Turbines – Power For A Family Of Four

“How would you like your very own take-it-home apply-it-yourself wind power generator? How about a whole array of them? This is a design that’s just that, take it home, unpack

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How To Make A Biomass Gasifier For Producing Wood Gas

“So what is a biomass gasifier? Basically is a chemical reactor that converts wood, or other biomass substances, into a combustible gas that can be burned for heating,

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Building Your Own Renewable Energy Systems From Recycled Materials

“Steward Community Woodland was born five years ago, when a group of us looking to set up a sustainable living and working woodland project bought and moved into

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The Care & Feeding Of Solar Batteries

“I have been receiving many questions from readers and visitors to the BHM web site concerning deep discharge solar batteries. These questions include: How do they work? Which

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How To Build A Bicycle Generator

Using a few easily accessible parts, you can make a bicycle generator that can power various electronic appliances, such as laptops and batteries! Materials needed: Bicycle Stand Bicycle

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Algae-Powered Lamp Transforms CO2 Into Light

“The lamp is made possible thanks to a recent discovery made by researchers at the universities of Yansei and Stanford. The researchers found that a tiny electrical current

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Solar Pannel Roof Shingles

“Residential solar has two main obstacles – expense and aesthetics. Even if I could afford it, my HOA probably wouldn’t allow it. All of this could change thanks

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Home Based Production Of Biodiesel From Waste Vegetable Oil

“The first thing that needs to be done, after being assured that the oil does not contain water, is to find out what the levels of FFA’s (Free

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Create Hot Water From A Compost Wheelie Bin

“Daryl from Windsor in NSW came up with an innovative solution using two ordinary wheelie bins that are filled with compost and a wound central pipe arrangement to

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