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ideas challenge

mrsyardbroom
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edited 26 April 2022 at 1:17PM in Old style MoneySaving
Last night I watched a video on YouTube where someone built a solar food dehydrator. It was the kind of solar power that uses hot air passing through a series of beer cans which then flows through the racks of food.. I was wondering if there's anything else you could use with this kind of construction. You could could have a sort of multi purpose solar unit. I'd love some ideas please. I think I might have to raid the local dustbins for the beer cans, but that would get the village gossiping. :D
Don't mess with pensioners. :cool:

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  • -taff
    -taff Posts: 15,388 Forumite
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    Not cans but you can build a rocket mass heater which runs on twigs and provides heat, and depending on construction, a cooking surface. I am aiming to build one utside under a shelter in the next couple of years.
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  • mrsyardbroom
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    Can you post on here when it's done, or upload a video to YouTube. I'd love to see it.
    Don't mess with pensioners. :cool:
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