First, we would like to thank everyone who toured the house on either the Eco Bike Tour or the Illinois Solar Tour. We had a great turnout for each event and enjoyed showing the house and answering questions.
The second installment of our monthly column in the ASHRAE Journal was printed in October. It discusses the overall design and performance of a net zero energy house. You can read the article here.
A few weeks ago we met with people from the Technology Entrepreneur Center and the University of Illinois Research Park for a tv show called Innovate @ Illinois. They did a nice job piecing the interviews and video together. The video is below.
Innovate @ Illinois: Sustainable Entrepreneurship Pt. 1 from UI-7 on Vimeo.
The kitchen should be arriving the end of this week, finally. We will run some tests with the heat pump dryer and have been collecting good data with the heat pump water heater we built. Around the house we are doing some touch up work on the drywall, paint, and trim.
