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enchanted by the charm of Country Sun Home II, the partners offer custom services. They have four projects in the design phase now—all solar. One that is to be constructed in Harris Hollow next year kept the computer humming for hours. “We had a problem to solve. They wanted a passive solar house but the slope on the site faced north,” Ritvo recalled. The two men came up with a design for a house that is to be built into a hill with solar collectors—glazed exolite panels—on the south facing split shed roof. “It’s like having two big sky lights,” Ritvo noted. Between the passive solar system and the partial shelter of earth, “you - literally should be able to
heat the thing with a toaster!” he reported. “Tp keep it at 70 degrees should take less than half a cord of wood per winter with average sun days and normal con-
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