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Solar heated Cary Arboretum building stores sun in Dutchess County
The Plant Science and Administration building at the Cary Arboretum in Millbrook, New York, is likely the nation's best insulated private structure using solar energy. It is two-thirds below ground, with seven rows of rooftop solar collectors absorbing winter sun and feeding a heat pump system. The $3 million facility, opened in 1978, includes cooling via deep wells and a $260,000 solar subsystem funded by federal and state grants, expected to cut fuel costs in about 12 years.
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Earl Aronson
Millbrook
N. Y
Cary Arboretum
New York Botanical Garden
United States
Dutchess County
George Bookman
Botanical Garden
Payne
Bookman