Article 138506 of alt.energy.homepower: Path: news.misty.com!not-for-mail From: nicksanspam@ece.villanova.edu Newsgroups: alt.energy.homepower Subject: Re: GREEN HOTEL PROJECT IN THE HIMALAYAS. Date: 22 Jun 2008 01:46:08 -0400 Organization: Villanova University Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <5d8b1f24-6d74-4f71-8297-d2f404b77785@j33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: acadia.ece.villanova.edu X-Trace: max.inside.misty.com 1214109882 13082 153.104.44.130 (22 Jun 2008 04:44:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@misty.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Xref: news.misty.com alt.energy.homepower:138506 Ken Maltby wrote: > wrote: >> ... The Hotel will be partially run Hot water and heating system on >Solar based > > Well... a Solar powered hotel built in the Himalayas, IS a great >example of the "Green Concept". Agreed. At the 2003 Sustainable Living conference in Boulder, a German guy talked about an improved woodstove for use in Nepal, where sun is plentiful but firewood can be hard to find. He showed slides of about 50 people hiking up a mountain in a line carrying a 2" steel bridge cable on their shoulders. > You would be transporting a good deal of high tech material, to >"the top of the world", using various means We might start with a few 4 foot x 100 foot x 0.007 inch 20-pound rolls of GE HP92W polycarbonate sunspace glazing. Nick