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" The past couple days have been hectic. Lots of scurrying to get everything in place, with photographer Ben Stechschulte trailing after us, snapping pictures like an over-caffeinated tourist.  We managed to get all the heavy lifting done. The Evergreen Solar (www.evergreensolar.com) panels are in place on the Wattsun tracking rack (www.wattsun.com) and the Outback inverter and charge controller (www.outbackpower.com) are humming along. We still need to actually wire the panels and Southwest Wind Power (www.windenergy.com) to the controllers and inverter (right now, we&amp;#039;re just running off stored energy in our batteries), but that will happen today. Needless to say, we&amp;#039;re super-excited to see the results. Yesterday would have been amazing; it was sunny AND windy all day. Alas, we couldn&amp;#039;t quite make it happen in time.  Two things really stand out. 1) Just how little the windmill itself stands out. Sure, it&amp;#039;s hard to miss from the house or front yard. But from any real distance it totally blends into the background. I drove across the valley last night, to a hilltop that looks onto our land, and I simply could not pick it out with the naked eye, even though I knew exactly where to look. 2) The Wattsun dual axis tracker rack is really, really cool. It uses a light sensor and electric motors to track both in all directions, following the sun from dawn to dusk. It&amp;#039;s pretty amazing to watch this huge array of panels slowly tilting to greet the sun.  That&amp;#039;s it for now. Gotta get to work. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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