Building the Solar Behemoth- a slideshow chronology
We’re very pleased that our solar heating project is getting so much attention- thousands of hits on our construction blog tells me that the interest in renewable energy is there! One of the goals of the project was to demonstrate the feasibility and performance of do-it-yourself solar heating projects in extreme climates like northern Minnesota. … Read more
Running on the sun.
The mega solar array has been active for a couple of months now and I am pleased to report that the everything has been working very well. I designed the barn foundation as a high mass sand bed storage system, capable of receiving the heat from the solar collectors during the day, storing it in the … Read more
