Squatch: 2nd Month Water Figures
Here we are, two months in our motorhome at this lovely trailer park. I’ve been keeping busy with projects of various sorts and collecting data in regards to our water consumption habits. I feel as...
View ArticleYet Another Change Of Course
I want to talk about overunity. Anyone that has looked around this blog knows that I have a special place in my heart for refrigeration, “heat pumps” more generally speaking. Vapor compression...
View ArticleThe Right Dwelling For Me
I think I’ve nearly come full circle in my desired house. When I was raking in a lot of cash working at a coal mine in Pennsylvania, I wanted to buy a pice of rural property and build a house,…Read...
View ArticleCreating Affordable Housing in Portland
There are many reasons for wanting to live in a city as beautiful and progressive as Portland. For us, we like the fact that by staying close to the city core, we don’t have to commute for our jobs...
View ArticleThe Super-Insulated Tiny House
Housing ideas come to me so fast and change with such regularity, while my writing and drawing lags behind hundreds of iterations. No bother; I will offer my latest version of a tiny house for your...
View ArticleHeat Pump or Heat Engine?
I haven’t bent any copper for a few weeks now. Between the heat, a vacation, and some bad habits, the shop has barely been opened. Part of the reason is due to a recent fascination with power plants....
View ArticleChange of Course – 3 ? 4 ?
This is at least the third or forth time I have decided to change the course of this blog, and my focused area of research. You could say I wander wherever my attention is captured. I remain...
View ArticleBeginning the Modular Refrigerator
Beginning a few weeks ago, I’ve embarked on a project to construct a modular, long lasting cooling system for domestic purposes. I’ve outlined my reasoning for this elsewhere on this site. 100 Year...
View ArticleA Refrigeration Laboratory
The refrigeration laboratory is here. This is the first blog post I’ve written since late summer 2016, and I’m doing so on a desk and chair I purchased at the Goodwill Bins for $8, not more than an...
View ArticleHomesteading Refrigerator to Die With –Part 4– The Scott Nielsen Ice...
Article from “Rodale’s New Shelter”, July-August, 1981 Zoom your browser in to make it easier to read! Up Next We’ll be getting into the design considerations of two-phase thermosiphons, building a...
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