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2010 Earth Day I can remember studying ecology in elementary school in the 70’s and Earth Day was a special day to talk about the environment. I didn’t realize back then that the first Earth Day was in April, 1970, 40 years ago. According to the Earth Day Action Center, Earth Day was founded on [...] About 5 years ago I made the switch from Windows to Mac. Like many people I was taken by the ease of use, the style, the look and feel, and the functionality. The techie in me had been hesitating for years because, though I liked the creative programs (iPhoto, garage band, iTunes), I didn’t need [...] 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, [...]
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
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 [...]
Clear Mountain Solar I’m very excited to announce the merging of two USA Solar Stores — Enfield Energy Emporium and Clear Mountain Solar in Claremont, NH! The last few weeks have been both fun and a bit stressful as we worked out the details of the transaction. Basically, “Energy Emporium” will be the parent company [...] Friday, June 12th, my husband and I closed on a house that will become our home AND the new home of Enfield Energy Emporium! It is at 78 Main Street, Enfield — just a few doors down from the current location of the store. It is just a shell of a building so we have [...]
Simple Solar Hot Water The store has been open just about 4 weeks and we are about to install the first solar hot water system sold through the store! At the high level view of the system, there is a closed loop of pipes containing water/glycol that transfer heat from the solar collector on the [...]
Ribbon Cutting After months of planning the opening day has finally come and gone. It was a fun day with good weather, balloons, speeches, barbeque, product demonstrations, family, friends and lots of guests. We had speeches from NH State Senator Matthew Houde, NH Congressman Chuck Townsend, County Commissioner Mike Cryans, Enfield Selectman John Kluge, Enfield [...] |
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