As they say here in the south:
"Myyyyyyyyyy it's hot!"For weeks I've been ruminating over how to really cool an off grid house on those hot, dog day stretches of heat we get in Virginia. Despite the fact that our house kits are super insulated, passive solar and utilize the cross breeze, well, heck. Until
you've spent a summer in the south, well, until you've spent a stifling, still, searing summer languishing on the cool floor 'cause you were too hot to stand... listlessly spraying little bursts of misted water towards yourself out of an old hairspray bottle 'cause that was the closest you could get to cool, where even the fans blew hot... where the still farm fields were so heavy with heat it knocked the air outta you and even the grasshoppers wouldn't even leap, where the... oh, ahem. Did I digress? Ok, fine. It's frickin' hot here, 'K? : )
So you see why I aspire to a cooler solution.
Today, when I heard about
Sun Utility Network's California Dream System- Solar Electric Cooling and Heating Sunstation, I was intrigued.
Reading through, it makes sense! For our
off grid house it could still work despite the electric piece as really, we wouldn't be aggressively cooling at night/when the sun was low. I will post more information on this system as I get it/have an opportunity to speak with them; in the meantime enjoy their website-
http://www.sunutility.com, and...
I hope you all stay cool!Labels: energy, green house, green living, off grid, power, solar, systems
