Archive for July, 2009
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Tornado Warning
Did you ever wonder what it is like to be in the middle of a tornado warning? Here’s a warning that passed through Factor e Farm a few weeks ago. Sectacular cloud formations were moving in opposite directions, and it was very quiet on the ground, but nothing more happened. It’s the first warning …
No Comments » - Posted in Natural History,Seasons by Marcin
Friday, July 10th, 2009
Open Source Biodiesel Tutorial
Here we show the complete documentation of a biodiesel production run. The video shows the process from oil settling to fueling the car – with titration and addition of reactants in between. We used 5 parts of waste vegetable oil to one part methanol, with potassium hydroxide as the base. We produced about 42 …
5 Comments » - Posted in Biodiesel,Biofuels,Pyrolysis Oil by Marcin
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
MicroTrac Completed
MicroTrac is the craziest power tool that I’ve seen. A powered unicycle? Mobile replacement wheel for LifeTrac, the open source tractor? Universal power source? It’s perhaps best to call it a walk-behind tractor. See the development from the drawing board by Jeremy:
to reality:
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Its parts, including the Power Cube, are interchangeable with …
5 Comments » - Posted in MicroTrac,Power Cube by Marcin
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Houston, we have a problem….
I sold my apartment, packing up stuff like crazy because next Monday July 13th my son is coming from Vienna to help me move everything to storage. Cancel insurance, change of address at post office, de-register car, etc. etc. you all know what moving is like. In between I still have to do my …
3 Comments » - Posted in Inga's House by Inga
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
OSE Interview with Gernot Minke
I took many hours of video at the workshop in Kassel, Germany – 11 hours total, I think. Some of them I commented in English, some are in German. The videos tell the story in either language but if you have questions, just ask me.
No Comments » - Posted in Infrastructure,Inga's House by Inga
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
OSE Interview with Gernot Minke
I think we have about 11 hours of video from the workshop in Kassel, Germany. Some are in English, some in German. On most the video itself is enough to understand what’s going on. If you have questions, I’ll be happy to answer them.
2 Comments » - Posted in Infrastructure,Inga's House,Viral Village by Marcin
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Juicy Fruit
One peach tree planted two years ago is now dripping with fruit. Here is a quick walkthrough at Factor e Farm on July 1, 2009 with this and some other details of natural history. The land changes drastically here on 2 week time scales. Now the dry season is beginning.
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