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CAPTURING FREE SOLAR ENERGY AT LITTLE OR NO COST
Steven E. Harris
www.StevenHarris.net
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Fast Easy, Visual Solar Heating,
Cooling, Cooking and
Experiments
Energy is Life
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The book started from the photo docu-
mentation of my professional solar, hy-
drogen, biomass and other energy work.
Consulting in these fields is what I do for
a living. As I continue to do experiments
and development work that is relevant to
the home experimenter and enthusiast I
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Dedication & Preface:
To Judy A. Harris.
This book is dedicated to my
mother, Judy A. Harris, who has
shown me since childhood that
one person's waste is another
person's treasure. All through
my childhood, we would take
what others would discard to
give it to those in need: 100-
pound bags of beans from farm-
ers in Michigan, crates of
slightly overripe fruit from the
produce store, three-day-old
cookies from the bakery, and
much more. We would pick up
these items and personally de-
liver them to a single mother
who was just barely making ends
meet, an 80-year- old lady who
could not afford fresh fruit on
her social security,
to people
who had less than nothing, and
to people who were only missing
a little something.
Mom would
take the cookies and horse trade
them to other people for physical
items that were not going to be
thrown away. Free cookies were
used as barter to get needed
items.
tunity to again have a duty and a
method of contribution. Mom
and the ladies still do this inde-
pendently, as well get together
every Tuesday (without fail) to
have a large quilting bee with
twenty, thirty people, and many
times more. Material that would
have been waste is keeping peo-
ple warm around the world.
People who were alone now
have community, and minds that
would atrophy now have some-
thing to occupy thoughts and
something to look forward to
every day. This is what free ma-
terial can do; it is more valuable
than gold sometimes. There is a
secret to getting free material for
your efforts. This book will
share some of these methods
with you.
dows back to the shop after
which the glass is thrown in the
dumpster. The glass company
has to pay for the dumpster to be
emptied. By giving you the old
glass, they save on dumpster
fees.
It is in our nature as humans to
help. Most people would be
happy to save items for you if
they will be used for something.
Most people get a joy from giv-
ing, even if what they are giving
away is deemed useless to them.
They know you see it as a treas-
ure.
There are high school teachers
who have read this book who are
getting free glass for solar ovens
for teaching physics. There are
boy scout troops making solar
ovens for almost nothing, and
there are people doing experi-
ments and learning in this excit-
ing field of energy because they
can now obtain the necessary
items for experimentation and
learning.
This book is NOT about dump-
ster-diving or trash-picking. Our
best practices are much simpler,
easier and cleaner. All you have
to do is ask. If you are afraid to
ask someone to save something
for you when they are going to
throw it out, then return this
book right now for a refund.
There are tens of thousands of
donated baby quilts and comfort-
ers covering infants and children
around the world who are sick,
in the hospital, or terminally ill
because Mom would get mate-
rial (cloth) donated, found or
contributed. We would drop it
off to old ladies and other people
who had nothing to do and in
many cases were house bound.
These people relished the oppor-
The world opens up when you
ask. Thanks Mom.
You would be amazed what hap-
pens when you ask. What's the
worse they'll say? It is No.
When you ask, the world opens
up.
Companies who install new win-
dows have to haul the old win-
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About The Author
Steven Harris is a consultant in the energy field. He
serves as Director of Operations and Technology for
the American Hydrogen Association in the Midwest.
After spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynam-
ics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Cor-
poration, where he was a pioneer member of the group
that developed and implemented successful Speed -to-
Market development concepts, Mr. Harris left his posi-
tion to do full time work on the development and im-
plementation of hydrogen, biomass, and solar-related
energy systems.
Mr. Harris is currently working with Roy McAlister
and others on Project Destiny, a solar hydrogen energy
system. He is authoring an upcoming book, "The Posi-
tive Promotion of Hydrogen Energy a Model for Suc-
cess in an Economically Driven Market" and also au-
thored the book, "Surviving the Blackout of 2003."
In addition to energy, Mr. Harris has a life long com-
mitment to civil defense and the preparedness and pro-
tection of the American public. He teaches family
preparedness and education regarding threats to the
population. Mr. Harris's Experience, Projects and a
Consulting Portfolio can be found at:
Steven E. Harris
Photograph courtesy May Kearny
Project Destiny
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100- year-old technology with 21st
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Contact Steven Harris at:
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Why Waste is Good
There is no advancement with-
out waste. There must be the
ability to test something and
break it. The ability to make
mistakes in development work is
where discovery is made and im-
provements forged. Without the
ability of having a surplus of
material, so multiple versions
can be developed side by side
and compared and analyzed,
there IS no advancement. For
example, if a person has ONE of
something, they are not going to
do experiments with it and risk it
being lost. If sand was as scarce
as gold, transistors would have
never been invented, let alone
developed to the state they are
today.
that when it comes to building a
solar oven, you are NOT going
to make one that is 1ft x 1ft but
4 FEET by 8 FEET.
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com). The process was not as
high in temperature as we would
run it today and thus it formed
byproducts. The byproduct was a
sticky, stinky, black mess called
COAL TAR. This was some-
thing the gas companies had to
pay to have hauled away. This
coal tar was a treasure trove of
chemicals, one of those being
just what was needed for the
manufacture of red dyes. At that
time in history, a red dye was
hard to make and very expen-
sive. A small company started
using the coal tar and making
dyes, then other pigments, and
then a whole family of chemi-
cals, resulting in the company's
growth. Maybe you’ve heard of
the company.
The BASF Corporation.
There will be more than enough
glass to waste, break or drop and
make mistakes with. In doing
my research for the writing of
this book, I lost about 1 in every
10 pieces of glass for various
reasons. The glass got broken
either in hauling, moving, ex-
perimentation or by the neighbor
kid (Anthony & his slingshot).
One day I accidentally left a
double piece of glass lying on a
black metal surface in the sun-
shine. Well, the sun heated the
black metal, which heated and
expanded the first layer of glass
which was in contact with the
hot metal, that piece of glass ex-
panded at a different rate than
the second layer of glass….
well….when I came back from
Home Depot I had a shattered
piece of glass on my hands. Oh
well, I have 12 more pieces just
like it. :) I just learned some-
thing.
This philosophy is not just for
modern development work and
engineering, such as designing
vehicles, computers, even the
silicon in the chips and every-
thing that is around us today. It
also applies to the home experi-
menter such as yourself. Why
have you not done solar experi-
menting yet? On a large scale?
For your entire house? Probably
because of the cost of glass.
"What size do I get? Do I need
two pieces? When it expands
from the heat will it break? I
really want a big oven, but that
costs $200 in glass alone…" We
are always finding reasons NOT
to do something. This book is
going to show you how to get so
much glass and other free items,
I could fill this book with exam-
ples of businesses that were
started from another companies'
waste, but this book is about us-
ing waste to gain knowledge
through experimentation as well
as to make solar energy related
energy items, many of which can
be sold, and all of which are fun.
Some of the biggest businesses
were started from someone
else’s waste product. Back in
the early 1900’s, "gas" for cook-
ing and lighting was made in a
steam reformation process of
coal. This made carbon monox-
ide and hydrogen gas (for more
on this get the Hydrogen & Fuel
Cell Video at
Remember, waste is good. Next
time you see waste, look at it as
an opportunity to make some-
thing else, an opportunity to
make money, and an opportunity
to learn ( and have fun.)
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