by Alan Stankevitz | Jun 6, 2004
As you may recall, students and faculty from Carleton College came to visit our cordwood home at the end of April. (See the May 2nd Journal.) The students were conducting an energy study on various forms of green construction methods: straw bale, cordwood and rammed...
by Alan Stankevitz | May 30, 2004
It’s hard to describe the euphoric mood that instills you when you connect all the wires to a solar electric system and it actually works. Such was the mood at about 1PM on Monday when I completed the wiring of the first inverter and saw the inverter power up...
by Alan Stankevitz | May 23, 2004
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~AS Wire—SE Minnesota. Local residents use to blame themselves for causing rain by washing their car, but now they have someone else to blame; namely Alan Stankevitz. Stankevitz just completed...
by Alan Stankevitz | May 9, 2004
I’m a little delinquent (I’ve been called that before) in getting the journal out. Usually I try to do it on weekends, but I was quite busy doing my best to work on the solar panels in between the thunderstorms. It certainly has been quite stormy here...
by Alan Stankevitz | May 2, 2004
Ok that’s a pretty strange question to ask, but consider the source.After testing twelve of the twenty-four panels, I was amazed as to how much power the panels were producing even on a cloudy day. This led me to wonder if there were enough photons streaming...
