Primitive Cafe -- brings wild food to your table -- also Potomac Highlands area workshops in wild edible plants
Mid Atlantic Primitive Skills Group -- MAPS Group -- Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Group (MAPS Learn, share and promote indigenous life skills! Established in 1997.
MAPS Group meets regularly in the MD-DC-VA area to learn, practice, share, and promote primitive technology skills.
Vince Lombardi Off Grid Winchester
Primary Focus: Solar Power consultant (Site Survey, Design, Build), Educator, Engineer,
System Designer and Installer. Also providing resources for independent and off grid living, education, and training in the
Shenandoah Valley (VA / WV). Contact: e-mail: vlombardi2003@msn.com / cell: 703-328-1840 Facebook presence: (search term) Off Grid Winchester Affiliations: Founder of Off Grid Winchester
www.OffGridWinchester.com
Founder of Abrams Creek Lodge & Family Campground
www.AbramsCreek.com
Founder of Affordable Massage www.AffordableMassage.com
Rick Hueston Primitive Cafe, Lone Nomadic, & Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Group (MAPS)
Primary Focus: Tom Brown School of Survival type workshops - edible and medicinal plants,
flint knapping, fire by bow drill, primitive survival skills… Contact: e-mail: hue570n@hotmail.com Facebook presence: (search term) Primitive Café Affiliations: Founder of Primitive Cafe -- www.primitivecafe.com
Founder of Lone Nomadic -- www.lonenomadic.com
Former President: Mid Atlantic Primitive Skills Group (MAPS) -
www.mapsgroup.org
Mike Lee Winchester Solar
Primary Focus: Providing custom tailored renewable energy based equipment (solar, wind, solar thermal, fuel cell...)
for emergency preparedness clients including civilians, military, government, FEMA, fire and rescue... Contact: e-mail: mike.lee@gpmsllc.com Facebook presence: (search term) None Affiliations: Founder of Winchester Solar
Christian Chew - Staunton, VA area
e-mail: cchew79@gmail.com
Solar panel / solar power system installer, NABCEP
Interested in collaboration for the Winchester metro area (to extend 50 miles in all directions) for solar power systems design / installation.
Doug Bittner - Berkeley Springs, WV area
Email: douglasmbittner@gmail.com / 304-258-9515
www.readydepot.com - Doug's website
Installed a 5.7KW solar power system (outback inverter / charge controller, battery backed) on his home
survival / shelter supplies including packaged foods for shelter and much more.
Timothy Reese - Capon Bridge, WV
Installed a 6KW solar power system on his home
Co-owner of taproot farm -- http://taprootfarm.info/
Facebook page - Taproot Farm - Capon Bridge, WV
Charles Bigelow
e-mail; lightspeedpower@gmail.com
Veteran Resources Corporation: http://www.vetresources.com/vcrstructure.html
20+ years in the renewable energy field...
Cheryl Ash - Berryville, VA
e-mail: ecycleconsulting@gmail.com / web: http://ecyclegreencollective.weebly.com/about-us.html
Current interim president/ director of the Barns of Rose Hill, Berryville, VA
Former President of the Shenandoah Area Branch (SAB) of the National Capital Region (NCR ) of the USGBC - U.S. Green Building Council.
Steve/Ruth Martin - Three Churches, WV - outside of Romney
Web: http://www.churchviewfarm.info/
Organic and sustainable farmers and meat/livestock
Created facebook presence - Sustainable Potomac Highlands
USGBC - national chapter and SAB / Shenandoah Area Branch
Taproot Farm
Backbone Farm
Church View Farm
Marilyn Finnemore - Bright Center
Cheryl Ash - Barns of Rose Hill
Abram's Creek Conference Center
The Land Celebration - a Retreat property of the Lord's chapel
Source: dsireusa.org - database of state renewables and efficiency rebates
state by state tax incentives and rebates for green energy installations, efficiency upgrades, energy audits, and more...
Green Steel Homes
Made entirely of recycled, re-claimed steel, these kit homes are long lasting, termite and bug proof, water/mold resistant,
and enduring... and the variety and architectural beauty for a kit home is un-matched.
Cool Alt Energy Video's
what's coming to replace Coal, Oil, Natural Gas and Nuclear:
Solar Updraft Tower video -- click here
Video animation explaining the principle of the Solar Updraft Tower, a simple solar power plant that can provide bulk
electrcity at low cost. This particular tower is 1000 meters high and produces 100 Megawatts.
For more information visit www.solar-updraft-tower.com
Cool Energy News
Source:
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plant powers 6,000 homes in Seville, Spain
The researchers found that by rearranging the mirrors, or heliostats, in a pattern similar to the spirals on
the face of a sunflower, they could reduce the pattern’s “footprint” by 20 percent and increase its potential
energy generation. The sunflower-inspired pattern allows for a more compact layout, and minimizes heliostat
shading and blocking by neighboring mirrors. The researchers published their results in the journal Solar Energy,
and have recently filed for patent protection.
Source: New Type of Inverter Could Drive Down the Cost of Solar Power
The new inverter setup mentioned above involves equipping each solar panel with a small inverter, instead of connecting
all solar panels to one large inverter.
Typical solar setups suffer from lower efficiency because of the way the panels are connected, which is in series.
A series connection means that electricity flows from one panel, through the other, and then the next, until it reaches
the end of the circuit. When one panel is shaded, the power output of the rest of the panels is reduced because the
electrical resistance of the shaded panel restricts the flow of electric current to the rest of the panels.
Source:
Another zero-emissions powerplant emerges - the Dearman Engine runs on liquid air
The new inverter setup mentioned above involves equipping each solar panel with a small inverter, instead of connecting
all solar panels to one large inverter.
Typical solar setups suffer from lower efficiency because of the way the panels are connected, which is in series.
A series connection means that electricity flows from one panel, through the other, and then the next, until it reaches
the end of the circuit. When one panel is shaded, the power output of the rest of the panels is reduced because the
electrical resistance of the shaded panel restricts the flow of electric current to the rest of the panels.
Source:
Discovery Could Cheaply Provide Significant Solar Cell Efficiency Boost
According to a recent University of Texas (in Austin) press release, solar cells could soon extract twice as many
electrons from each photon of sunlight received. This would be achieved using an organic plastic semiconductor material --
doubling the current solar power efficiency from 15% to 31% for solar energy capture and conversion.
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