{"id":420,"date":"2008-04-22T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T13:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=420"},"modified":"2008-04-22T06:57:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T13:57:04","slug":"diy-solar-hot-water-heater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"DIY Solar Hot Water Heater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of Earth Day, here&#8217;s a little project virtually anyone can attempt, if you&#8217;ve got any solar resource at all. Most homes spend around 30% of their energy budget heating water. Get 100 meters of black hose, a few connectors, and a place to site your heater and you&#8217;re in business with a cost effective solar hot water heater.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center>Segment 1: First Attempt<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UXGlB1kGO5E&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith the humor out of the way, here&#8217;s the rest of the story&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center>Segment 2: Success!<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sBAi_TVNaiM&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHats off to <a href=\"https:\/\/greenpowerscience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Green Power Science<\/a> who put these entertaining, yet cheesy, videos together.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of Earth Day, here&#8217;s a little project virtually anyone can attempt, if you&#8217;ve got any solar resource at all. Most homes spend around 30% of their energy budget heating water. Get 100 meters of black hose, a few connectors, and a place to site your heater and you&#8217;re in business with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-6M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}