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The Renewable Energy site for Do-It-Yourselfers
About Me
I am a retired airplane product
development engineer. I live in "Big Sky" country near Bozeman
Montana.
I've always been interested in solar
energy projects, but moving to an 8000 degree-day climate, and living in a house
that is about as bad a solar design as one could imagine picked up my interest
quite a bit.
While trying to find good solar
heating ideas
for my house, I noted that there is not much on the web for people who have some
build-it skills, and would like to tackle a solar project -- thus came the idea
for this web site.
I like doing hands-on projects,
especially ones that involve building prototypes to test new concepts -- thus
came the "Experimental" area of this site.
Here
are a couple of my past prototypes:
A prototype of an inflatable heliostat and me.
I'm the one on the right.
Its described in detail under the "Experimental" tab. |
This is a full sized taxi simulator
for the 777-300 -- it is 160 ft long, weighs 33,000 lb,
and has a diesel powered
hydro-static drive.
Top speed 12 knots!
We built it to make sure that the
777-300 (the longest
commercial transport in the world) could taxi around
existing airports OK.
Lots of fun.
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Gary
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Gary