In the ongoing effort to reduce his environmental impact on the planet, The Bear this week has installed a “TED-5002″ on the home electrical panel. Other weblogs have described the T.E.D. installation process, so I won’t go into that here. Instead I’ll share some details about our particular grid-tied solar electric production system, and how [...]
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Treesh and I went shopping for a freezer last summer. You know, one of those chest freezers you keep in the basement to store everything that won’t fit in the refrigerator freezer in the kitchen. We did a lot of canning and freezing from the garden last year and needed a place to put it [...]
Electricity from a box in your backyard? Bloom Energy is making them for commercial businesses — they’re about the size of a parking space. The first ones (definitely business-sized) cost about $750,000 and can generate 100Kwh of electricity. But within a decade we may be able to buy these for our home. Bloom Energy CEO [...]
