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Power Mangement

As Canadians we have an abundance of cheap power, so we rarely need to concern ourselves with power management. Last week however there was a severe thunderstorm that passed north of Ottawa that did a real number on cottage country. … Continue reading

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More on zero net energy projects

Over the past couple of weeks I have had posts on zero net energy homes. I posted a wild idea for integrated wind power, talked about how to calculate energy output from solar arrays, looked at costs and power consumption … Continue reading

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Going off grid

There was an article in the paper (The Ottawa Citizen) by a well know local contractor (Mike Holmes) about zero net energy homes. He described how to build the homes to take advantage of passive solar heating, how to make … Continue reading

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