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Spring update

4/1/2015

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Many things have changed over this long, extremely snowy winter, including a lot of my plans for the Vehicle.  In a few weeks, I'll be meeting with designers at Advantage Trailer Company in Illinois to finalize plans so they can build me an enclosed trailer shell.  This is a gooseneck trailer with a complete metal shell--the "skin" of my little house.  

I'm looking at a solar powered mini-split for heating and cooling.  The mini-split is a magical machine that extracts heat from cold winter air!  I'm also planning on a small wood stove for cooking and back-up heat. 

I've abandoned the fancy, experimental insulations I was considering, and am going for closed cell rigid foam and thick walls, to super-insulate my space. 

Those are the headlines for now.  More details to follow. 
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