Friday, October 16, 2009











Four sites today that deal with green residential and whats good & whats not.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009




2009 Solar Decathlon click for ecoHome coverage of the Solor decathlon.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

natural alternative homes










As I bounced around today i connected with a few websites that threw me into a flashback of the 1970's hippie architect movement. So thats what thiose guys have been up to. Click on the picture of the web page to go there.




Thursday, February 05, 2009

eColegy






The Indiana Department of Energy Development 1 sponsered an all day worksop on Photovoltac system design and considerations Wednesday at the Allen County Library. Very briefly I'll sumarize the key info here.




Website references:


Online training Books and other resources.



Hosts of the largest energy fair in the region for twenty years. Between near Stevens OPoint Wisconsin, (Point Beer). The seminar presenter was really pushing this group.
Wisconsin oriented but some good short fact sheets and guides.



Database of Govmt incentives - very thin in Indiana - yell at your reps.
Federal: 30% no limit tax credit, State of Indiana: nada

Better (cheaper) than Real Goods, (real goods, real expensive), source of solar stuff.
and
The magazine.
Very Rough Costs of approx 1.5 kW systems installed:

Grid Tie system; 8-11 $/Watt

Grid-tie with tracker; 9-13 $/Watt

Grid-tie with battaries; 10-16$/Watt

Grid-tie with battaries and tracker; 13 - 17 $/Watt

Stand alone -off grid fixed; 13-17 $/Watt

(Installation included above approx 1.5$/Watt)


Upcoming seminars
March 17 Allen Co Library on Residential Wind energy systems
and The Indiana Building Green Symposium in Indy March 12-13
The Wisc Energy Fair June 19-21
more green links:
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