{"id":838,"date":"2007-12-27T06:43:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/multi-dimensional-harvest-in-panama\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T06:43:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:43:21","slug":"multi-dimensional-harvest-in-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/multi-dimensional-harvest-in-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-dimensional harvest in Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague of ours has been exploring Panama recently and brought <a href=\"https:\/\/web.mac.com\/chrismccall\/iWeb\/Caldera\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Rancho de Caldera<\/a> to our attention. It&#8217;s a small resort set in the mountains of Panama with nine cabins and it&#8217;s largely energy independent. Despite being close to a volcano, geothermal systems are not part of the harvest system (even for heating\/cooling), rather it is solar, wind, and micro hydro harvest backed by a battery bank and supplemented by a generator. The operator estimates that between 4.5 &#8211; 5 kW of electricity are generated per hour (1 kW from hydro\/wind and the balance from solar.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center>Solar Panel Array next to Powerhouse<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/ranchodcsolar.jpg\" alt=\"Solar panels in front of powerhouse at Rancho de Caldera\" \/><br \/><small>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.mac.com\/chrismccall\/iWeb\/Caldera\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Rancho de Caldera<\/a><\/small><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center>Battery bank in Powerhouse<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/ranchodcbatteries.jpg\" alt=\"Battery bank in powerhouse at Rancho de Caldera\" \/><br \/><small>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.mac.com\/chrismccall\/iWeb\/Caldera\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Rancho de Caldera<\/a><\/small><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague of ours has been exploring Panama recently and brought Rancho de Caldera to our attention. It&#8217;s a small resort set in the mountains of Panama with nine cabins and it&#8217;s largely energy independent. Despite being close to a volcano, geothermal systems are not part of the harvest system (even for heating\/cooling), rather it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}