'Three Solar Food Dehydrators - solar energy at work!'

07:07 May 18, 2021
'Plans: https://permies.com/t/74059f7/Solar-Dehydrator-Plans The first solar dehydrator is shown by robert and marina at dell artimus farm.   The solar heat comes from a heated panel at the bottom, and there is a black chimney at the top that creates a draw.  They use  a stainless steel screen.  The dryer is a year and a half old.  They have dried beans, flowers, cherries, grapes (raisins), kale, walnuts and apples.     They tried some tomatoes, but those ended up as pig food.  Matt at feral farm shows a \"down draft solar dehydrator.\"  The solar heat enters at the top and then goes down.  Because as it gathers moisture, the solar heated air gets heavier.    He has nettles in there.  Mark Vander Meer, of  wildland conservation service in Missoula, Montana shows off his solar food dehydrator still loaded with dried plums.   Those plums have been in there all fall, winter and most of the spring.   He talks about trying to dry fruit with electric food dehydrators and how expensive that was.  This solar dehydrator also uses the down draft technique.  He says plums take three days and apples take a day and a half.  These are all passive systems.  There are no fans.  support my patreon for more videos like this:  https://patreon.com/paulwheaton  permaculture design course https://richsoil.com/pdc.jsp  http://www.permies.com    Relevant threads at permies: http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/3562_0/cooking-and-food-preservation/solar-food-dryers http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/762_0/organic-sustainable-practices/solar-dried-foods http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/6556_0/alternative-energy/safe-materials-for-solar-dehydrator  Permaculture Playing Cards https://richsoil.com/cards.jsp  177 hours of Permaculture Design Course and Appropriate Technology Course https://permies.com/pdc  Better Wood Heat: DIY Rocket Mass Heaters 4-DVD set https://richsoil.com/wood-heat.jsp  Wood Burning Stove 2.0 4-DVD set http://www.woodburningstoves2.com/  World Domination Gardening 3-DVD set https://richsoil.com/wd-gardening.jsp  Permaculture Homestead Podcasts https://permies.com/f/88/permaculture-podcast  Permaculture Design Course and Appropriate Technology Course https://richsoil.com/pdc.jsp  Rocket Mass Heater Workshop Jamboree https://richsoil.com/rmh-workshop.jsp  Sign up for my daily-ish email, or my devious plots for world domination   http://richsoil.com/email.jsp   music by Jimmy Pardo http://permies.com/t/30796/Jimmy-Pardo   Thanks to my patreon peeps for pushing me into making videos again:  Keith Kuhnsman  thomas adams  Jocelyn Campbell  Julia Mason  Dominic Crolius  Josh Phillips  wade L  Suleiman ALAQEL  Ash Jackson is The Scrollbard  Jason Hower  Bill Crim  Full Name  Doug Barth  James Tutor  David Ingraham   https://www.patreon.com/pwvids' 

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