Bab Lab Continued
Building on the work in the last post – if one simply puts a shroud around the Babington burner flame to retain the heat – the flame becomes self sustaining. Preheated to 140 F, the oil lights immediately and continues to burn: It’s...
Bab Lab
The spirits run high as Bob’s Bab Lab produces a roaring Babington burner flame at Factor e Farm: Our next steps are to put a shroud around the flame for flame continuity, and installing a water heat exchange coil in the shroud for hydronic heating,...
Babington Burner Trial One
Today we started to put together our Babington burner. This burner is important because it is a versatile source of heat for: space heating, metal melting, glassworks, pottery, steam engines for remote power, heat engines for mobile power in cars and...
Hexayurt Construction
Hexayurt building went well – a 7/16″ Oriented Strand Board (OSB) structure with 4 inch wide, 32 gage galvanized flashing as the ‘tape’ to hold it together. Being familiar with standard construction methods, I had my doubts concerning...
Progress
Ecology and technology. The tractor is borne of plants and rock – transformed to rubber and steel. It’s munching up the soil – with the tiller. It is site preparation for the first Hexayurt – in minutes as opposed to 2 days with...
Crowdsource Funding
We finally kicked off our crowdsource funding yesterday – or online donations. You can chip in to our project here. We are migrating towards full direct support by such small online donations. The bottom line is – with the collected resources,...
Factor e Live – Episode 9 – Rototiller, More Solar Panels, Biodiesel Reactor + Crowdsource Funding
Here is the continuing saga with the open source tractor. We built a quick attach plate for rapid interchanging of implements. We built an open source rototiller as the first such implement. Now we can switch readily between the tiller and loader bucket...
Clarifying OSE Vision
Vinay published his vision for Global Swadeshi recently – a movement where individuals take personal responsibility for global issues. Key among these issues is oppression – whether it’s the oppression of the weak or funding one’s...
CEB Stabilization Questions
We are getting much closer to full-scale building with the CEB – with September 15 as our starting date. Another collaborator will arrive here around that date, Alex Rollin – which is extremely exciting becuase he is also an information architect,...
The Bell Tolls for PV
– Guest post by Benjamin Gatti from our Solar Turbine Google Group. This post features an eye-opening perspective on photovoltaic (PV) panels. The claim is: it is very unlikely that PV will ever be cheap. Personally, I’ve been following PV...
