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Getting Solar Questions Answered

Here are some ways to get your burning solar (or other energy) questions answered.

Email me:

Drop me an email, and I'll do my best to answer your question or find someone who can --- email Gary

If you send me an email PLEASE:

Make sure your return email address actually works. Its a pain to spend time answering a question, and then have the email bounce -- this happens a lot.
Identify the web page you were looking at that the question is about. There are hundreds of pages and projects on the site, so, it can be very hard to figure out what project your question is about if you don't give me the page you were looking at.
For a lot of questions, I need to know generally what part of the country you are in as things vary by climate a lot.

I'm also always interested in hearing thoughts or ideas you might have on solar/renewable energy projects.

Post Your Question on One of These Forums:

I participate regularly in the following discussion forums. Posting your question to one of these forums gives you the advantage of getting my thoughts as well as the opinions of other knowledgeable people. In addition, others will benefit from your question and the discussion that it generates.

The Homesteading Today "Alternate Energy" Forum at: http://homesteadingtoday.com

UseNet: alt.solar.thermal   (if you are not familiar with UseNet, see note below)

The Yahoo Groups "Home Energy Solutions" and "Solar Heat" groups at: http://groups.yahoo.com/ (see note below)

The FORCEFIELD Forum at:   http://www.fieldlines.com/   (particularly good for wind power)

The Hearth Forum at: www.Hearth.com   for wood burning questions

There are also lots of other good discussion forums out there, so search around a bit and see what you can find.

UseNet Groups: UseNet groups are internet discussion groups set up to discuss a specific topic (solar heating for example). Potentially this gives you access to a lot of expertise. If you don't already have UseNet server access, Google now offers a very easy to use and free service to access UseNet groups -- see: http://groups.google.com/ . Go directly to the alt.solar.thermal group.

Yahoo Groups: Is a large (huge) set of discussion groups setup under the Yahoo umbrella. To sign up for either of the two groups mentioned above or a couple thousand others, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/ I regularly check the "Home Energy Solutions" and "Solar Heat" groups.

Comments:

I'd be interested in hearing any comments you have on Build It Solar, or any suggestions for improvements.

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About Gary:

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