Over McClure Pass, between Hotchkiss and Delta, one of the nation’s most innovative photovoltaic power projects is complete and will have a grand opening Sept. 30. It will be the largest solar farm on Colorado’s Western Slope. The Garnet Mesa Solar project has tracking photovoltaic panels over 400 acres of former cattle pasture, but now […]
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Geothermal potential explored locally
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Fred Porter
“Geothermal energy” has been in the statewide news recently with an endorsement by Governor Jared Polis of a “Heat Beneath our Feet” (HBOF) initiative with the Western Governors’ Association. As currently used, “geothermal energy” encompasses a broad variety of technologies utilizing the heat of the earth. Locally, we are familiar with natural “hydrothermal” hot water […]
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Turn your furnace or AC into a ‘heat multiplier’
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Fred Porter
What: The heat pump is a heat multiplier Cold climate heat pumps are probably the most significant method to greatly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from heating our buildings. For a home with ducted forced air, a whole house heat pump will look like an air conditioner and function as air conditioner. Then, in the […]