The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato Transitioning to off-grid living is easier when one does it gradually. What it comes down to is accepting limits. By and large, humans don't like limits and especially don't like being told to accept them. And yet, there's a couple non-alternative facts that one… Continue reading First steps
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Solar thermal
Anyone who has ever turned on a garden hose left out in the summer sun knows beyond any doubt that the sun can produce scalding hot water. I live in an area of northern New Mexico which has between 280 and 300 sunny days per year – a statistic closely matching the island of Cyprus… Continue reading Solar thermal
Q.uality E.nergy D.esign
Overview We travel across the bottom of the sky the way a crab moves across the bottom of the sea . . . I live and work in northern New Mexico and though I'm not an Indigenous person I value their wisdom. I only design off-grid solar systems. I do not design grid-connected systems; there… Continue reading Q.uality E.nergy D.esign
Optimum tilt of solar panels
The purpose of the post is to help calm my anxiety that this very useful information might be lost should the original source page disappear and to provide a validated, concrete example of its application. I offer my thanks to the author, software engineer Charles R. Landau, for precisely quantitating what I empirically knew to… Continue reading Optimum tilt of solar panels