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Happy
Dancing Turtle Eco-Cabin
Hunt Utilities Group Campus
2373 Dancing Wind Road SW
(2502 24th Street SW)
Pine River, MN 56474
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Directions to Hunt Utilities Group Campus:
From Highway 371 turn west on County Road 2 on the north edge
of Pine River and take a right at the wind turbine.
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Design-build Hunt Utilites Group, LLC, chose
to install solar on the Happy Dancing Turtle Eco-Cabin for the research
and education such an installation can provide. The total building
was designed first for energy efficiency with three-foot-thick walls
(100 R-value), super insulation for 60 R-Value in the ceiling, and
thermopane low-E argon windows. Through this process, they learned
that straw bale and cob construction is labor-intensive yet effective
in the design of an energy-efficient home.
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440-square-foot hot water |
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288-square-foot solar capture
in greenhouse |
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Working towards zero sewer effluence |
