----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Wiltschko To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:22 PM Subject: RE: [hexayurt] Windows and COOLING on the PLAYA
Bill Wiltschko asked: I don't know what "282 watts per day" means. Is this 282 watt-hours? -- Yes. I'm talking watt hours. Early summer on a good sunny day I make about 1,500 watt hours (@ 120v AC). Now that the monsoon season weather pattern has set up here, I'll be making less. Winter days I make about 1,100 watt hours. Obviously, I'm living on a small electricity budget and every electrical purchase for my home is scaled to that. And I'm always looking for new efficiencies. When I first switched to solar in 1992 it was quite an adjustment and took about six months of adapting and learning. (And buying less-energy-hungry alternatives for common appliances.) Now I hardly even think about it -- except when considering purchases of electrical devices. -- ken winston caine P.S. Bill, in your gravity-fed swamp cooler, how are you controlling the flow to the pads and have you set up a system for capturing and re-using the water that runs through them and collects at the bottom of the cooler? Did you come up with a low-energy way to recirculate that? I may have looked at photos and descriptions of your device a couple years back. Did you post them then? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
