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Solar Storage tank Unfortunately we had a problem with the webcam and didn’t get any time-lapse pictures of the second day of building the solar storage tank (see Thermal storage tank, part 1 from the first day). We did get some video footage and a few stills, see below. The first day was the [...]
Solar heat For our zero-energy building we are using the sun to provide ALL of the heat we will need throughout the winter. After months of discussion, engineering models of heat requirements, heat losses, heat storage and solar heat generation… the team came up with a system. There are three major ingredients: Solar collector Below are a few pictures from the solar webcam from today’s excavation. For more pictures and information on this renovation project, click on ‘78 Main St- Renovation‘:
Solar webcam diagram We are going to start excavation on our renovation project, 78 Main St next week. So, in preparation we got a hold of an outdoor webcam and put together a system to power the camera, a wireless router and a datalogging computer with the hopes that we can capture some of the [...]
Cutting through Permits are in hand! No more excuses — it’s time to start making some progress on our 78 Main St renovation! Since this house is on the Mascoma River, and we want to add a garage, a driveway and a solar storage tank (excavation required), we needed a bunch of permits including the NH [...] |
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