It might not seem like it but I’m still here.<\/p>\n
I’ve just returned from Germany and Australia and will add some updates from both those locations.\u00a0 In the part of Bavaria I usually visit the number of solar installations has doubled in the 2 years since I was there last.\u00a0 The effect is visible everywhere, it’s almost like you can’t look along any street or landscape without seeing a solar panel somewhere.\u00a0 And that is in a country with insolation below that of New Jersey.<\/p>\n
In Australia my friend’s straw bale house is complete and very comfortable (except for the rat that decided to die somewhere in the roof).\u00a0 They have no heating unit at all – all passive solar!<\/p>\n
In New Jersey it’s almost like I have never been away.\u00a0 Negotiating the software maze of the NJ Clean Energy Program has not become any easier.\u00a0 But we take care of all that and the customer never sees (or at least should not see) the work required.\u00a0 The NJ program remains one of the best in the US.\u00a0 We just need to get the message out to the users.<\/p>\n