Jose Alano

How to make a solar water heater from plastic bottles

Giovana Zilli

| 6th May 2010

Retired mechanic Jose Alano invented a simple, cheap, energy saving rooftop solar water heater which is benefiting thousands of people. Here's how it's done...

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