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Fuel-Free Primary Heat
One of the two biggest challenges in reducing the climate impact of our off-grid home is heating (the other being transportation). For...
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More PV Generation
Our next step was to add more PV generation. With only 2kW DC solar, it took all the daylight on a sunny day to run our modest daytime...
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Clothes Drying
A clothesline is a classic way to dry clothing. Ours is right by the house, strung between trees, and in our climate clothes hung outside...
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Indoor Air Quality
With a super-airtight house, indoor air quality is a big concern. When the windows and vents are all closed, we get headaches, even...
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Off-Grid Solar
When we bought our 1200 square foot off-grid house in 2020, it had a small photovoltaic system. The system was designed for a single...
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LED lighting
LED lighting is near and dear to my heart, I'll admit, because I knew graduate students when I was in the PhD program at UC Santa Barbara...
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Switch to electric cooking from burning fuel
When we bought our house, it had several propane appliances (stove, water heater, and fireplace). Our intention has been to move to...
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Fuel-Free Back Up Power
Usually PV systems are backed up with generators, but they are loud, burn fuel, and are inconvenient and expensive to buy and to run. We...
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Radiant heat
Though the previous owner designed the house to be thermally efficient, we found that the existing dark ceramic tile/concrete slab floor...
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Add lithium ion batteries to PV system
When we began upgrading the off-grid PV system on our new mountain home, our first priority was to add more energy storage, and for the...
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Super-insulated house
Our house was built to be thermally efficient, and was featured in a case study by Larry Kinney entitled "Clean Mountain Living" in the...
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Downsize
Our first step in reducing our climate footprint was to downsize our living space when our last child went to college. We had moved from...
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