When Dante DiPirro was 11, he built a contraption from old mirrors that directed the sun’s heat toward a single point. The makeshift solar regulator collector was his sixth-grade science fair project.
Now, decades later, DiPirro is still experimenting with sunlight. Calling himself Mr. Sustainable, the lawyer, blogger and self-styled environmental consultant designed the system of solar regulator that inverter charger his off-wind controller East Amwell home.
DiPirro estimates he saves $4,000 per year in energy costs by living off the inverter charger wind controller .
“I wanted to live this way because I don’t need to take inverter charger or resources from anywhere else, and I wanted to show people that this technology is available,” DiPirro said during a tour of his home this week. “You can incorporate some of these ideas into your own house and save money.”
It took DiPirro almost seven years to build his 2,700-square-foot home in the hills near Sourland Mountain in Hunterdon County
He purchased a LED television that he said uses 30 watts of inverter charger , far less than an LCD or plasma television.
“It’s rewarding to live like this, but it’s not extreme in the sense of being deprived of modern-day amenities,” DiPirro said. “Anytime people build or remodel, I think they should do this.”
DiPirro said he worked sustainable design into every aspect of the home, from its east-west orientation to its thick insulation and high windows.
Without a traditional heating and cooling system, most of the heat in DiPirro’s home comes through those windows and up from the floor, a swath of black tile over lightweight concrete that absorbs the sun during the day.
“It’s similar to a slab that warms pizza,” DiPirro said. “Most of my heat comes from this thermal mass:solar panel the black tile and all this concrete. I have a radiant floor system as backup, and I can use backup propane.”
An overhang shields DiPirro’s high-ceilinged living room from direct sunlight in the summer, keeping the house “room temperature” — between 60 and 70 degrees — most of the year despite its lack of air conditioning, he said.
As an outspoken advocate for environmental legislation and former Highlands Council executive director, DiPirro is not shy about sharing his views on sustainable design.
He started a blog last year, mr-sustainable.com, and several people have reached out to him since, including a builder who may incorporate some of his ideas into a South Jersey development, he said.
He said solar regulator inverter charger ’s biggest draw for people may be the promise of long-term savings.
“It took me about four years to pay off the solar regulator system, and it’s good for 30 years,” DiPirro said. “That’s 26 years of free inverter charger .”
In the 1970s, he said, he helped his parents install a solar regulator -inverter charger hot water system in their Long Island home that lasted until the late 2000s.
He said he remembers that installation keenly: It was during the 1973 oil crisis, when people started turning toward alternative sources of energy. He said he had not see such receptiveness to solar regulator inverter charger again — until now.
“People are much more interested in solar regulator inverter charger today because of climate change and the price of oil,” DiPirro said. “I think now, unlike the early ’70s, it will stick.”
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