By Reysa, Gary Slash your home heating bills with this exciting solar project. If you can build a deck, you can build this super system! Its 'time to take advantage of solar heat to reduce your dependence on fossil fuels and lower your hearing bills.

By David DeKok, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Jul. 31--Solar energy's last heyday came three decades ago, after the first OPEC oil embargo in the fall of 1973 sent prices soaring for gasoline and heating oil.

The Patriot Ledger WEYMOUTH Geno Buccella's "retirement fund" is a contraption attached to the side of his house. He calls it "the solar oven." It's a sun-powered heating system that he assembled from wood and plastic pieces bought a quarter-century ago.