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Solar Collector We are finally making progress again on the solar heating system at 78 Main St. After building the tank (Solar Storage), building the collector rack and trench to the basement, and building the heat exchanger (see pictures below), the next step was to get the two main loops pumping (see Solar Storage Tank, [...] It’s been a few weeks since my last update on the 78 Main St Renovation, and a lot has changed. Don Robert’s crew (Wayne, Aaron, and Bruce) have almost completed the framing of the new roof and walls within the old structure. David Dow (Double D Electric) has a permanent electrical connection to the house [...] A friend and colleague of mine, Brad Vietje, is building a straw bale house and will be working with the same solar heated storage tank as I am using for 78 Main St. He, too, has a goal for net zero energy, with solar PV for electricity and using local and sustainable materials everywhere. I [...] Solar Thermal Storage It took a while to get this going but we finally have a time-lapsed video of the building of the solar storage tank. This tank was designed by TSS (Thermal Storage Solutions) with installation help from Murphy Cell-Tech and Greenworks Solar. I set up a webcam to get the time-lapsed photography [...]
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 [...] 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 [...]
NorthWest foundation We are still in the planning stage for 78 Main St renovation (seems like this stage is taking a loooong time), and this week we got a few more opinions on the stability (or fragility) of the foundation. Since we are putting a lot of money into this building up front to make [...] |
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