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You Can Grow Your Own Ray
Jason Edens, rural solar advocate, answers readers' questions |
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31 Mar 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Jason Edens, Rural Renewable Energy Alliance. How do I find out if my site is suitable for solar, and how do I go about building my own system? -- Louise Wickham, Wellington, New Zealand Determining if your site is suitable for solar starts with assessing your solar resource. Essentially, you're determining if enough sunlight strikes the proposed solar array location to make it worthwhile. We u ... |
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| Topics: energy, energy at home, green living, InterActivist, interview, Japan, Minnesota, Poverty and the Environment, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Garden of Edens
Jason Edens, rural solar advocate, answers Grist's questions |
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27 Mar 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Jason Edens. Where do you work? I work at the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance, a grassroots nonprofit organization whose mission is to make solar power accessible to people of all income levels. What does your organization do? At RREAL, we install solar heating systems onto the homes of low-income families qualifying for energy assistance. In Minnesota, and indeed across the country, hundreds of thousands of ... |
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| Topics: energy, energy at home, green living, InterActivist, interview, Japan, Minnesota, Poverty and the Environment, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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