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Solar “Extraction”

In winter, we spend a lot of time keeping the solar panels free of snow and ice. Sometimes, like recently, rapid snowfall makes it a fruitless task. By the time we sweep the bottom of the array, the top panels … Continue reading

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Tracking the Homestead’s Individual Winter Solstice

This year’s Winter Solstice, like last year’s, arrived on a bright, clear day! That’s always so gratifying. Just as we did last year, we tracked our solar input through the “local” Solstice.

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