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
Tag: solar energy
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
Quality Energy Design
They're the two best words in the English language when you put them together, right? – Ursula Todd What if – it was possible to live lightly and well and in harmony with our Earth? Many people already do so (and some have for thousands of years), but those that do tend to be quiet… Continue reading Quality Energy Design
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