Great Day

Fair visitors enjoy a "candid" conversation beside a mobile solar cart.

Thanks to all of you who made it out to our Memorial Day energy fair!

By our estimates, nearly 300 made it to New Bloomfield for the event – perhaps our biggest show yet! Our registry shows that you came in from all over Missouri, and a surprising number too from out-of-state. We’re glad you came, and we hope you had a good experience.

We certainly had a good time ourselves, and enjoyed meeting a lot of you. My wife, Jen, and I led tours of our house (across the street from the center) where we showed how a normal house can be converted, bit-by-bit, toward life “off the grid.”

And of course, at the center itself, we had some of our old faithful demonstrations – the building and design of dome homes, the making of bio-fuels like biodiesel and ethanol, our electric and hybrid vehicles and mowers, and the use of various kinds of solar and wind energy – from high-tech photovoltaics (solar panels) to homemade solar cookers and passive heating methods. We hope you also got the chance to see our new solar carts – we’re extremely excited about them. Maybe, though, I’ll leave them for another post.

Any rate, hope you all had safe travels home, and if you didn’t make it to this one, we’ll hope to see you at the next…