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Topic: Passive Solar House, built with PO in mind for sale (25420) |
brobak
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:34 am Subject: Re: Passive Solar House, built with PO in mind for sale (254 |
I believe that the closest active mine is about 35 miles as the crow flies, but the majority are farther south west down the mountain chain.
Electricity is all locally generated by locally mined co ... |
Topic: Passive Solar House, built with PO in mind for sale (25420) |
brobak
Replies: 4
Views: 850
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:21 pm Subject: Re: Passive Solar House, built with PO in mind for sale (254 |
| I'm just a bit west of martinsburg wv, over the first set of mountains. Technically its gerrardstown, wv. |
Topic: Passive Solar House, built with PO in mind for sale (25420) |
brobak
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Views: 850
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:20 pm Subject: Passive Solar House, built with PO in mind for sale (25420) |
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Topic: The "We Ain't Dead Yet" Thread. With a Side of Gu |
brobak
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:38 pm Subject: Re: The Eternal Optimist Redux Thread |
Thin film solar is shipping at under $1.50 per watt wholesale. It should be closer to $1 per watt in the next few months.
Could I respectfully inquire as to where I might be able to purchase these ... |
Topic: Reddit discusses Guardian Peak Oil article |
brobak
Replies: 2
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:33 pm Subject: Reddit discusses Guardian Peak Oil article |
| I'm late to post this, and for that I apologize, but I thought that you might find it interesting to see what a generally educated and insightful group has to say about their ideas on peak oil. Please ... |
Topic: Passive House Design |
brobak
Replies: 32
Views: 4693
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:53 pm Subject: Re: Passive House Design |
You should check out www.sunplans.com for specific plans and designs. I actually built the Garden Atrium plan.
And I'll tell you, it works. Even in the heat of summer, last week I was out there fin ... |
Topic: How much to save up for EVERTHING? |
brobak
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Views: 2603
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:20 pm Subject: Re: How much to save up for EVERTHING? |
For being a 'smart guy' you seem to be forgetting about some fairly simple things like, income taxes.
I graduate in 2 years. After that, I'll be making 50-100k a year depending. I can live cheaply ... |
Topic: THE Lighting Thread (merged) |
brobak
Replies: 229
Views: 3285
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:25 am Subject: Re: Energy Efficient lights slashed electric bill by 40%!!! |
2. To the extent they do help, it only pushes back the day of reckoning . . .
Isnt that kinda the whole point? I mean, sure, on a long enough time scale we're all dead...but I know that I'll still ... |
Topic: The most energy efficient house? |
brobak
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Views: 3556
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:56 pm Subject: Re: The most energy efficient house? |
| For what its worth, I've actually done a lot of research on efficient home design in an attempt to educate myself and plan for my new home. To be perfectly honest, the final choice was a compromise of ... |
Topic: Another record Archive |
brobak
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:14 pm Subject: Re: Another record |
Big bounce up to 62.00 in the last hour according to http://321energy.com/
Wonder what news kicked that off. |
Topic: Question About Solar Homes |
brobak
Replies: 12
Views: 1309
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:41 am Subject: Re: Question About Solar Homes |
| check out www.sunplans.com and you can learn a lot about passive solar home layouts and plans. |
Topic: [Shelter] Roofing materials |
brobak
Replies: 16
Views: 1497
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:53 am Subject: Re: [Shelter] Roofing materials |
Looks like she likes the Colonial Red. Not too bad. .32 reflectivity, .89 emmissivity. At least its in the top half of the colors. I knew I couldnt sell her on the arctic white  |
Topic: [Shelter] Roofing materials |
brobak
Replies: 16
Views: 1497
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:00 am Subject: Re: [Shelter] Roofing materials |
| [url=http://www.unaclad.com]Unaclad looks like it has a decent metal roofing system that handles all the cool roofing techs. I'm going to pass them on to my contractor and see how much its gonna run m ... |
Topic: [Shelter] Roofing materials |
brobak
Replies: 16
Views: 1497
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:19 am Subject: Re: [Shelter] Roofing materials |
| Well, if I do go with a metal roof, I would definitely try to incorporate a 'Cool Roof' coating, i think they are called AVP coatings. You can apply them to any kind of metal. I was thinking of going ... |
Topic: [Shelter] Roofing materials |
brobak
Replies: 16
Views: 1497
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:36 am Subject: [Shelter] Roofing materials |
| I'm in the process of building a home for myself and my family. I'm trying to [url=http://www.brianrobak.com/gallery/NewHouse/CurrentPlans/]split the difference between complete bug-out shack of doom ... |
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