As some of you know I live in a passive solar house with traditional utilities as back up. The bank required the traditional utilities or I couldn't get a mortgage loan. Apparently the banks get it about renewable energy, and won't take the risk. But today Flagstaff has received over a foot of snow and more is coming. This is good because otherwise we would have a terrible forest fire hazard come spring and early summer.
Sheriff's Search and Rescue patrol evacuating homes in front of a large forest fire near Flagstaff, AZ.
Miraculously no homes were lost.
But today the traditional utilities are running (natural gas) or the house would be "Passive Polar" And so it goes with renewable energy. Not always reliable. Just like commercial wind energy. But when it's sunny, which is a lot of the time here, the passive solar works great, and makes sense for this area, yet still not as many people as could or should take advantage of it. Don't think either passive solar or active solar would be very cost effective or efficient in Cape Vincent, so based on my experience I find it real interesting that NYS is talking solar a lot lately.
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