by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 30, 2019
On February 27, 2000 I discussed our solar heating design and in that article I briefly touched on the subject of determining our home’s heat load. At the time, there wasn’t a whole lot of information on the internet about the subject and I used a heat...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jan 19, 2019
Are we live? Testing 1-2-3. Testing. It’s hard to believe but yes, we are back up and running again on a new hosting platform. I have a TON of stuff to do to get DayCreek up to full speed, but at least things have finally been ported over to a non-Windows...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jun 15, 2004
The digital electric meter has been installed, the contract has been signed and finally the sun is shining. To know that clean, renewable energy is powering our house and the surplus is going out on the wire to help power our neighbor’s homes is quite...
by Alan Stankevitz | Jun 12, 2004
Attempting to schedule Moonfest during a full moon has become quite a challenge, so we have now diversified into all phases of the moon. June 12th was about the only Saturday in the months of May and June that all our friends could make the event, so Moonfest became...
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...
