Passive solar brings new energy to look of house (MN)

[jpak]

http://www.startribune.com/417/story/1116340.html

Editor's note: Follow Jason Hammond as his family builds their new house. Go to startribune.com/newhouse and watch this space for periodic updates.

Every year we have the same discussions about how nice it would be to spend winters in the south and summers in the north, applying the common sense of your average migratory waterfowl.

Yet the reality is that unless I win the Lotto or until I hit retirement, I am here for the duration of my working life.

With that said, on a nice spring day when the sun is out and the temps are supposed to hit the 50s it drives me crazy when I hear our furnace kick on to heat our house. There's an abundance of free energy falling to the Earth, and yet my furnace is burning a fossil fuel to heat our home. It's almost maddening.

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[suziedemocrat]

1. Passive Solar is the way to go! K&R