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Reading

• Week of June 19th
  • Pages 76-122 in Reader's Digest Back to Basics
  • Read Colin's explanation of degree days (link below in Reference Material). Talk about it enough to make sure that you understand the details.
  • Work through (individually) the online energy audit at http://hes.lbl.gov using Miller Farm as the house. Make a note of your session number, you can return and re-calculate it.
  • Spend an hour or more browsing the Real Goods Solar Living Source Book. I want you to get a good sense of the range of gear available in this space and the complexity and costs associated with it.
• Week of June 26th

Exercises

• Week of June 26th

Labs

• Week of June 26th

Reference Material

• Degree days explained - http://cs.earlham.edu/~copelco/wiki/index.php/Degree_Days
• Degree day interface

To Do

• Cleanup our weather data
• Build a local repository of Farmland's data or another nearby location, develop an interface
• Develop year-to-year comparison interface
• Track down the LP gas bills and put them in the database, on-going feed?
• Create a table and populate the occupancy data for the Farm
• Setup an on-going feed for the RP&L bills
• Track down the most recent wind survey data for this area
• Track down the most recent solar incidence data for this area