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Posted by ++ on October 21, 2007, 6:20 pm
I went, I saw, I noticed two dwellings that with an incredible lot of
detail work and a lot of reworking that I might be willing to dwell in
for a vacation home for short periods of time....
The entrants were so serious that the majority of them used Subzeros for
their fridges. When you are paying for a rendundant motor to run yur
appliance....and it is no better insulated than a lot of cheaper
appliances.....on the other hand, I was hoping to see better new
technology.....sad
Kris Krieger wrote:
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>>>>If anyone is near Washington, DC in the next week, it's worth taking
>>>>the time to visit the Solar Decathlon that's set up on The Mall. 20
>>>>universities built solar homes, shipped them to DC and set them up
>>>>on the Mall, and are getting graded in ten categories. I made a
>>>>special trip from NY and visited this past Saturday - I highly
>>>>recommend the visit.
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>>>>at:http://www.solardecathlon.org
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>>>Yeah, a right bunch of forward looking artichokes and onioneers you
>>>guys are...
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>>Some of us have been a bit carried away recently with shopping locally
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>>I'll have a look at the results, stand-out projects.
>>I live in an area where solar radiation is normally between 400 and
>>600watts/m2 - so - why isn't this being harnessed on a vast scale? The
>>answer is, reticulated power is still relatively cheap and solar power
>>technology relatively expensive. If the cost-recovery period is 7
>>years or more there is little incentive to adopt solar technology. On
>>the other hand, progress is being made on reducing the grid load from
>>water heating, and a 'Citisolar' project:
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>>http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/iss/Citisolar.asp
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>We looked into th epossibility of solar panels, but that's it, it's very
>expensive, for even a small amount of power.
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>A moral quandary...
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