{"id":332,"date":"2007-12-27T06:41:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2007\/12\/27\/multi-dimensional-harvest-in-panama\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T06:41:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:41:33","slug":"multi-dimensional-harvest-in-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=332","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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-5m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}