Bloomin' Flower Cards » solar http://www.bloomin.com/blog The seed paper people! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:57:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Solar Powered, Bloomin’ products are now made with MORE help from the sun! http://www.bloomin.com/blog/2010/01/26/solar-powered-bloomin-products-are-now-made-with-more-help-from-the-sun/ http://www.bloomin.com/blog/2010/01/26/solar-powered-bloomin-products-are-now-made-with-more-help-from-the-sun/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:14:00 +0000 Bloomin' Flower Cards http://www.bloomin.com/blog/?p=569 Our solar panels have been up and running for about a month now. We have 144 Kyocera solar panels now collecting the light of the sun that power our light, computers, die-cutters, letterpresses and more. Our 29.52 kW system should produce 42,082 kWh per year. This is approximately the amount of electricity we use.

Here are the guys from Independent power working in December.

Here are the guys from Independent Power working in December.

Hopefully we will break even on the deal in about 5 years. With all the incentives right now for solar in America, we couldn’t afford NOT to get this system installed. More importantly, we are excited about making a difference and being less of a burden on this small planet of ours.

]]> http://www.bloomin.com/blog/2010/01/26/solar-powered-bloomin-products-are-now-made-with-more-help-from-the-sun/feed/ 0 Bloomin’ Is Going Solar: May the rays of the sun give us power. http://www.bloomin.com/blog/2009/10/02/solar-power/ http://www.bloomin.com/blog/2009/10/02/solar-power/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:02:18 +0000 Bloomin' Flower Cards http://www.bloomin.com/blog/?p=319 We have been tinkering with the idea of solar power for two years now. Back then we had concluded that it would be great to save the world, but it wasn’t really economically viable to go forward with a huge solar project. Now two years later, we can’t afford not to get our solar array up and running as soon as possible.

Today we signed on the dotted line, and put out a chunk of change to get this project started. We chose a company in Boulder called Independent Power Systems to get this job done right, and hopefully we will be powered by the sun before the end of the year.

Our array will be a 29.52 kW Kyocera system made up of 145 high efficiency panels.

I think our array will look something like this.

I think our array will look something like this.

We’ll be sure to tell you when our seed paper products is finally made using the power of the sun. I can’t wait.

- Tom Noyes

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