What a great story ---
"On 5 acres along Interstate 81 about a mile north of Harrisonburg, Zach Fettig, a 24-year-old graduate of James Madison University's College of Integrated Science and Technology, is financing and building a self-sufficient, environmentally friendly house." (Source:
Daily News Record)
Zach is a recent graduate, and will house several other students in the house he is building --- providing a hands-on experience for learning about and performing research on sustainable living technologies in everyday life.
Per the Daily News Record, these technologies will include:
- solar panels
- wind turbines
- low-flow toilets and shower heads
- an underground waste treatment tank
- a fuel cell to produce electricity
- a geothermal heating and cooling system
- heat-storing floor tiles
- a passive solar design
- a solar-thermal water heating system
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