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Plans, tools, and information to help you build solar projects that save money and reduce pollution
Home Page -- New and seasonal stuff -- Announcements
Add A Project -- Add or suggest a new project for Build It Solar
Getting Started -- How to choose high payback energy saving projects
Solar Site Survey -- IMPORTANT -- do this before you spend money on a solar project
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Projects -- this is the heart of the site -- over 500 free solar projects you can build
Efficient Appliances
Lighting and DaylightingWater (catching it, saving it, treating it, using less of it, and reusing it)
Solar Homes -- Much material on building solar homes
Design Guides -- The best books, papers and software on how to design a solar home
Construction Types -- Details on many construction types -- conventional to cutting edge
"I Did It" -- Descriptions of solar home projects from the people who live in them
Solar Thermal (heating)
Solar Space Heating -- Much material on all types of solar space heating
Solar Water Heating -- All types -- simple to complex -- solar showers
Sunspaces & Greenhouses -- For solar heating, living space, and plant growing
Solar Pool Heating -- Installing solar pool heaters
Passive Cooling -- Passive and efficient active techniques for cooling -- lots of material
PV -- Solar electric from small and simple to large and expensive
Wind -- Designing and installing wind turbines for electric power
Micro Hydro -- Designing and installing small hydro systems for electric power
Solar Cooking and Food Preservation
Solar Stills For Water Purification
Efficient and Natural Lighting
Frugal Project -- inexpensive projects with short paybacks
Solar, Green and Efficient Vehicles
Solar and electric Bicycles and Scooters
Electric Cars and ConversionsSolar Wood Drying -- solar wood drying kilns
Concentrating Solar Collectors
Half -- A program to cut energy use and Greenhouse Gas emissions in half -- including 3 Home Power articles
Reference Material -- tons of information for designing and building solar projects
All Around Solar References -- News, Periodicals, Reference sites, Environment, Solar Associations
Solar Engineering Books and References
Sun charts, Sun Position, Collector Aiming
Climatic and Solar Radiation Data
Fuel Energy Content and Energy Conversion
Solar Collector Design, Ratings, and Certification
Measuring Collector Output and Efficiency
Glazing, Plastics, Pipe, Insulation
Government Renewable Energy Incentive Programs
Solar Suppliers -- Suppliers for building solar projects
Wide line of solar components and systems
Wide variety industrial suppliers
Reflector Film
Batch or ICS (Integral Storage Collector) water heaters
Thermosyphon Water Heaters
Evacuated Tube CollectorsThermal Storage (tanks, liners, heat and coolth storage devices)
Insulation (including pipe insulation)
Experimental --Ideas that look promising (or at least interesting).
Questions -- Getting your questions answered
What does "Non-Commercial" site mean?