June 28, 2008: Farm…Solar…Happy Birthday Tony

  Happy Birthday Tony 🙂  Try not to party too hard today.  I know it is difficult being 40.  You are 40 today?  Right?  Wait…maybe you are younger than that.  Hard to keep up!  🙂

  We spent most of the day at the farm.  We went hunting for arrowheads, marked off some of the land (trying to figure out the footprint, got the well water running, and met with a guy from Evansville (Brad Morton) who installs solar energy.

  At this point we are definately getting a geothermal system, solar hot water, and perhaps a mixture of wind and solar energy.   We are not 100% sure yet.  Illinois is in the middle of deciding what their incentives will be for the new calendar year.  Last year they had a program that you could receive 30% off your solar energy installment.  Not sure what they will do this year.  Hopefully something though.

  We are looking into wind power.  See here.

  Here is a photograph of what the Skystream looks like in someones field/yard.  Not sure where this photo was taken.