Solar Thermal Case Studies
Plenty of us have imagined the ideal sustainable community: Greenhouses attached to every house, growing your own fruits and vegetables, knowing our neighbors, and being able to take a short walk to shops and entertainment. Hunt Utilities Group (HUG) in Pine River, MN is trying to make the idea of resilient living a reality with a number of research...
Norm and Mary Erickson of Hazelnut Valley Farm retired and started a hazelnut farm in Lake City, MN. Their nutty adventures into the business of growing, harvesting, and processing the crop led them to install a solar-heated greenhouse with many innovative features. They look forward to a future where hazelnuts can be profitably converted into...
Dairy farmers are an industrious group by nature, and farmer and entrepreneur Peter Reese of Goodhue County has eyes for common sense and untapped opportunities. The basic concept of Perpetual Harvest, LLC, came from Peter’s thoughts about how our economy is under-utilizing available and renewable local resources.
RREAL, a manufacturer of solar thermal panels for air heating, believes that solar technology should be available to people of all income levels. They address this issue by producing an affordable solar-powered furnace and working with local communities and governments to deliver the product to those most in need of energy alternatives.
Environmentally integrated curriculum, community involvement, technology—these are three integral parts of the charter for the North Shore community School. The North Shore Community School wrote a grant to the EPA and was chosen as one of the 16 out of 130 proposals to receive funding.
This report focuses on one neighborhood’s effort to jump start solar thermal in the Twin Cities. It also contains useful information on the potential of solar hot water systems in Minnesota.
Wild River State Park converted the fuel oil-fired water heater at one of its campground shower facilities to a liquid propane and solar thermal water pre-heating system in May 1998. The system works by pumping water from the well to the solar storage tank and from there cycling it through the solar collector system which is comprised of 4 flat plate...
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