To demonstrate the level to which the lunacy can go, our local state government website has a list of invasive species, one of which was described...
I ran across a Cucumber Magnolia, Magnolia acuminata at the Common Ground Fair in Unity Maine. I grabbed a fruit, which is very interesting...
Actually this isn't a method of heating. It is a way of concentrating heat. You are moving sunlight from a large area, to a small area. Unless...
Salt water is a great way to destroy plumbing. A composting toilet will allow you to transform your feces into manure, with little to no water....
The first thing that springs to my mind is the ridge on the North side of the property. A swale along the 1120 contour would gather all the water...
Although plastic isn't a great conductor of heat, for earth tubes it really isn't that big a deal. For one thing earth isn't a great conductor of...
No, it really isn't. Heinous, yes. Slavery, no. It really doesn't help things to conflate two different things just because they are both...
I *WANT* the human race to last another 1M years. Well if we continue with a dependence on *oil* we don't have more than a HUNDRED years, at...
I often see this sort of thing, and only very rarely does anyone consider future generations in their calculations. If we expect to stabilize the...
Greetings, This really is the time when you want to do some engineering. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_wheel#Power_calculations for a...
Reductionism is a necessary first step. Once one understands all the parts, it is then possible to understand the whole. We should be sure not...
Greetings, I am an energy auditor, so I know some numbers, but for your situation, it was just a matter of running the numbers. Wood is 8000...
My pile is the size of a pallet on edge (about 4' cubed). And yeah, the snow was deeper than the pile, so there was no need to pile it. :rofl:...
Greetings, The principle of Go, applies to both your opponents strength, but also your own. If you don't want to deal with Kraft-Heinz, don't....
1) Find your customers! 2) Ask them what they would be willing to pay for this [show them your product]. 3) Figure out whether you can make a...
Greetings, 5 Other: Stop giving money to those who do harm. All of them, not just isolated boycotts. There is a principle of Go, which states,...
Greetings, No experience, but, 5000 liters going from 22°C to 36°C with a 90% efficient stove requires about 17 kilograms of wood. Spas tend to...
I wish. In my climate, this year, we got -20°F, and 53 days that never got above freezing. A huge problem I also got this year was snow filling...
I thought the idea of seedballs was that they would remain dormant until they got enough water to survive. Watering them beforehand would seem...
If a third of all people got *no* food, that's 1.39B Hectares / (7.2B * 2/3) = .29 Hectare / Person. So, those figures don't add up. Lots of...
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