{"id":55,"date":"2007-01-28T06:42:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=55"},"modified":"2007-03-12T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T01:46:25","slug":"neat-solar-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Neat solar experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070127\/ap_on_re_us\/solar_house_6\">In this AP article<\/a> it&#8217;s explained that a State Senator from Virginia is staying in solar-powered home designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.vt.edu\/main\/index.php\">Virginia Tech engineering<\/a> students. Frank Wagner is using this as a means to raise awareness of renewable energy and self-sufficiency by living in the house outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smv.org\/\">Science Museum of Virginia<\/a>. While the experience hasn&#8217;t been bug-free &#8211; during a 20F night the water supply froze &#8211; it has proven viable. This is a custom 800 square foot dwelling that is more of a prototype than anything else, but it&#8217;s great to see Wagner and the students make a public point on the subject.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCongrats to the folks out in Virginia for doing this, it&#8217;s a worthwhile exercise.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nIf you liked this entry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=55&#038;phase=2\">Digg It!<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/solar+house\" rel=\"tag\">Solar House<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/frank+wagner\" rel=\"tag\">Frank Wagner<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/virginia\" rel=\"tag\">Virginia<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this AP article it&#8217;s explained that a State Senator from Virginia is staying in solar-powered home designed by Virginia Tech engineering students. Frank Wagner is using this as a means to raise awareness of renewable energy and self-sufficiency by living in the house outside the Science Museum of Virginia. While the experience hasn&#8217;t been [&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":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}