Window Air Heater - Are Soda Or Beer Cans Really the Best Way to Heat Your Room?

Window air heaters are a great way to generateideas that can generate the same heat without
free heat. I have done my research and foundthe additional work this design creates.
several designs from others who had built theirFirst you have to drill a hole into each can so the
window units with everything from soda cans toair can pass through and up into the top of the
aluminum sheet metal to straight wood boxes.unit. This seems like a great deal of work when
Everyone one uses the same principal; build anthere are other inexpensive materials you can
enclosed box with a glass or plexi-glass front, adduse. I used plastic French drain pipe for my heater
an inexpensive material, paint it black and youand it works great. It runs about.45 per foot and
have a window air heater that generates warmis relatively easy to work with. It already was
air from sunlight.hollow and allowed the warm air to travel freely.
As cold air feeds the bottom of the unit, itWith the soda can design you have to still paint
warms and travels up through the black spaceeach can black to get the maximum absorption of
toward the top. On the way, the light entering thesunlight. My French drain pipe already was made
box begins to increase the air temperature. Asof black plastic, so this step was not needed.
the air heats up, it gets lighter and travels upwardIn summary, creating a window air heat system
which can exits the unit and can be piped inthat generates warm air from sunlight is easy and
through the window.inexpensive to do. The soda can design works ok,
Many have used soda or beer cans to build theirbut I believe there are alternative designs and
heat chamber. After reviewing the steps andmaterials that can save you time and effort and
thinking it through, I have come across othergenerate as much heat as you need.