Water Rhapsody » Solar energy http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za est. 1994 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:46:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Off Grid Garage with Gray Water http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za/2009/10/06/off-grid-garage-with-gray-water/ http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za/2009/10/06/off-grid-garage-with-gray-water/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:21:43 +0000 admin http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za/?p=557 Visitors have traveled for miles to see David and Laura Sill’s new garage in Reisterstown. What makes this three-car garage worth the trip is that it was made out of about 200 bales of straw and features a toilet that heats waste into environmentally friendly ash.

The Sills’ garage was finished last [...]]]> http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za/2009/10/06/off-grid-garage-with-gray-water/feed/ 0 Solar array provides energy, shade and harvests rainwater http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za/2009/09/08/solar-array-provides-energy-shade-and-harvests-rainwater/ http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za/2009/09/08/solar-array-provides-energy-shade-and-harvests-rainwater/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:07:50 +0000 admin http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za/?p=379 Jerold O’Brien has always been a bit ahead of the curve. He bought his scenic property near Summit Road in the 1970s and planted organic grape vines to make Silver Mountain wines long before it was popular to make wine or be organic. And in May he took the next step by completing [...]]]> http://www.waterrhapsody.co.za/2009/09/08/solar-array-provides-energy-shade-and-harvests-rainwater/feed/ 0