{"id":2582,"date":"2008-09-06T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T22:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2008-09-06T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T22:56:46","slug":"thats-progress-camilla-and-roger-leave-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/thats-progress-camilla-and-roger-leave-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Progress! Camilla and Roger leave the grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rogermcguinn.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/roadie-report-41-concerts-and.html\">From the Roger McGuinn Roadie blog:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHurricane Fay began creeping northward from Naples, FL on August 18. The very day we had scheduled to initiate on our new PV solar panels to power most of our house\u2019s electrical needs with the sun\u2019s energy. The rain began &#8230; it didn\u2019t stop for five long days, but the panels worked! Even on rainy cloudy days, our system charged the storage batteries. Our two refrigerators were never in the slightest jeopardy of losing power. Almost everything in the house is now solar powered.<\/p>\n<p>On August 30th, we conducted another experiment with the system. We totally disconnected our house from Progress Energy &#8220;grid.&#8221; The air conditioners, the clothes dryer and the electric range and oven ceased working. We&#8217;d planned to see if a portable air conditioner could keep us comfortable throughout the night but guess what &#8230; it rained all day. Hurricane Gustave\u2019s outer bands showered our house. I did manage to wash four loads of laundry on solar power and hung the clothes up to dry on racks, but we didn\u2019t want to take the chance of testing the portable air conditioner. The lights, fans and computers worked all evening. When the sun rose the next day, the batteries totally recharged. A new day dawned and a fresh source of power was available. It was so exciting!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"2008\/09\/roadie-report-41-concerts-and.html\">Read more and more stories here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Roger McGuinn Roadie blog: Hurricane Fay began creeping northward from Naples, FL on August 18. The very day we had scheduled to initiate on our new PV solar panels to power most of our house\u2019s electrical needs with the sun\u2019s energy. The rain began &#8230; it didn\u2019t stop for five long days, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}