Renewable energy for a 1899 farm house in Lawrence, Michigan

[swmiwindnsolar]

Hello All.

Some of you have been asking me over the years about our home energy project.

Well, after 5 years, we've put together a movie of the project. Don't worry about sound, there isn't any.

Here is the link to our 1899 renewable energy farm house project on CNN's iReport website.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-9941

The movie is 18 minutes long and includes pictures of:

The farm house we moved 33 miles and restored.

Wind turbine installation

Solar thermal instillation

Insulation of our home

Building cedar storm windows

Our Electric truck

Compact fluorescent vs. incandescent bulb comparisons

The movie was originally 25 minutes long but CNN chopped it down to 18 minutes.

Also, just a reminder that Earth Day is 22 April 2008.

Enjoy, thanks, Sharon, Jian & Art.

P.S. we still have all our fingers and toes!

Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

This should be a Diary. Since it just points us to CNN and has no true content included in it.

Funny thing is, I never heard of you or anyone asking "about your home energy project"?

[richhagen]

It looks like you put the Bergey up in October of 03, how has it performed for you?  Lots of interesting projects there in your home rebuild.  I enjoyed the video.  I don't recall seeing any posts related to it when you were building it.  It is nice to follow along with the pitfalls and triumphs of a large project like that.  Congratulations on your home.  Rich Hagen

[swmiwindnsolar]

Hello Rich.

We have averaged about 4,000 KWh per year. The turbine was producing about 16,000 KWh per year with the previous owner who had the turbine up in the mountain passage in up state New York.

Hope this helps, Art.