Protection from FREEZING !!!!

HAHHA yah a small one would do great for that... but my big 13 ft' deep dish would incenerate it in seconds ! I'm sure of that !...
the problem with big dishes like that is the wind... and if I cover it with something and plug all those holes in the screen-like skin of the dish it will catch the wind real bad
and probly blow over ! up rooting the post !
...I think it would be need to have it heating a big trench of Rocks all day and then use the hot rocks at night to heat the house ... but that will take a SUN-tracking device...
which shouldn't be too hard to come up with sense it has a motorized skew anyway.
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I saw a fella that made a solar oven out of cardboard boxes and tin foil...
and it worked very well indeed !
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Also a "HOT BOX" is realy Invaulable in the winter time if you have Sunlight....
at the ranch I will have sunlight , here I don't, too many trees on the neighbors property!
... I made one while I lived in Vinton,Ca..some 25 to 30 years ago and I got 110 degree hot air out of it durning the day and I closed it off each night.... worked great !
it was a 4'x8' piece of plywood with Alumimun trailer skirting as collectors on the plywood bent into a deep "V" shape and nailed to the board , painted flat black covered with Hog wire to support the Plastic cover it worked very well and heated the house durning the day
where I used to have to have a fire in the stove to keep the chill off, after the Hot box I didn't have to ... !
... these things are worth their weight in gold as far as I am concerned... I will have a bunch when I get sunlight once again ! AHHAHAHAHAHAH
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Bob.....