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Sam Coleman
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Brian Green
Michael Hackleman
Barbara Kerr
Stan Krute
Mike Mooney
Lynne Mowry-Patterson
Karen Perez
Richard Perez
Anita Pryor
John Pryor
Daniel Statnekov
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From Us to You
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Poem -
Stay In The Sun
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Systems
– Sunshine & Mountain Home Power –
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Electric Vehicles
–The Hybrid-Configured EV –
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Appliances
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Lead-Acid Battery Chart 34°F.
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Lead-Acid Battery Chart 78°F.
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Batteries
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Editorial
– Like Lemmings to the Sea… –
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Communication
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Solar Cooking–
Solar Box Cookers –
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Legal
Solar Cooking–
7th Annual Tucson Solar Potluck –
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the Wizard Speaks
– Entropy –
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Think About It
"Everybody's dancing
the Ring around the
Sun, ain't nobody
finished, near even
Cover
Photovoltaics track the Sun at
Roger & Ana Murray's mountain
home.
Photo by Brian Green
Jerry Gracia 1967
Home Power is produced using ONLY home-made electricity.
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Welcome to
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STAY IN THE SUN
© Daniel K. Statnekov
West Virginia coal mine
Lured us off the land
To burrow down beneath the ground
It's not what we had planned
The years went by, and used we got
To that there enterprize
But those of us who did the job
Hid truth behind our eyes
But work was sure and all year round
The hours set each day
No risk there was like farmin's storms
To ruin a man's earned pay
Old friends they seemed to age so fast
And shrink in size and weight
Some of them jist up and died
Coal miner's turn of fate
So young we was to make that choice
But seen sich misery
Amongst the folks we loved the best
A change we'd thought it be
We could of left, it was our right
Jist couldn't quite decide
How to go about our lives
And most of all provide
We do hear all of you who are
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Learned soon enough the price we paid
To get out of the sun
Pale as death our faces turned
Didn't know what we'd begun
For famblys that'd come along
Depended on that pay
And all the debts contracted for
It seemed the only way
The dust that covered us with black
So fine it made you choke
Was worse'n we knew at the time
Didn't figure it a joke
To make ends meet in this here world
Grown big and mechanized
And us so poor, unlearned, and sich
Was truth we reco'nized
And coughin' fits did bad erupt
That kep' us up at night
Like smokin' Lucky Strikes non-stop
Then losin' in a fight
But breathin' coal dust underground
In holes dug without light
Is work that wears a man away
Turns life into one night
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Some of us jist up and quit
But others stuck it out
Steddy money every week
He'ped overcome the doubt
So if I had to start ag'in
Advise a son or two
I'd say to him "Stay in the sun
No matter what you do."
Unions fixed conditions some
John Lewis pioneered
Taft-Hartley didn't change the dark
But lessoned all our fears
Richard, Karen & the Crew
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Systems
Sunshine & Mountain Home Power
Richard Perez
any of the best rural home sites in America are a mile or more from commercial electrical power.
This prime, unspoiled land has only one real liability- no electricity. Technology has provided the
tools to solve this problem. And usually at far less cost than commercial electrical service. Here's
the story of a family that lives high in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon. They live beyond
the commercial power lines. They make their electricity on site using sunshine. And they did it at about
1/3 the cost of running the commercial power lines just 4,000 feet.
A view from Roger & Ana's driveway. Ashland, Oregon is fog covered in the Valley below.
The diagonal line across the far mountains is Interstate 5.
Photo by Brian Green
System Location
Roger, Ana and Kirk Murray live on a mountain side some 5 airline
miles southeast of the small town of Ashland, Oregon. Of course,
airline miles don't mean much in the mountains unless you're a bird.
By road, the Murrays are about 18 miles from town. Sixteen of
these miles are on serpentine pavement winding up the 6,000 foot
bulk of Soda Mountain. At about 4,000 feet altitude, the Murrays
leave the blacktop and use a 2 mile stretch of dirt road to reach
their homesite.
Their home is located on the 4,600 foot level on Soda Mountain's
northwest face. This location has enough altitude to receive heavy
snow and other bad weather associated with mountain living.
Snow depth can reach over 5 feet during the winter. Transportation
in the winter varies from rough going in a 4WD to cross county skis.
While Roger and Ana's site may be hard to get to, it's definitely
worth the trip. The Pacific Crest Trail runs within a mile of their
house. The panoramic vastness of the mountains is stunning.
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