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James Hannemann

Sustainable Living Powered By Passive Annual Heat Storage - Earth Sheltered Homes | Pas... - 1 views

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  • Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS) is a method of collecting natural heat all summer, when there’s more of it, and saving it until winter when it’s needed, effectively maintaining over time a constant effective natural resource base. Building materials are arranged in a special configuration to merely change the balance of natural heat flow of a conventional design. Heat is thereby directed from wherever we get it to wherever we want it, all without using machinery to make it work. With the rising cost of energy inclining more people towards sustainable living, all home builders should educate themselves about basic PAHS principles!
Colin Murray

Solar Supported By Molten Salt Comes To Spain - 0 views

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  • Colin Murray on 10 Dec 12
     
    Americans are familiar with with utilizing solar energy to heat water filled tubes for domestic hot water. Spain has laid claim to the world's first molten salt solar energy plant. Nearly 3,000 mirrors track the Sun, reflecting its rays at a centralized tower. Said tower raises salt, an already bountiful resource in Spain, to a temperature high enough to melt it. Amazingly, salt withholds its temperature rather well, emitting heat for nearly 15 hours past liquefaction. This heat is utilized for energy production.
Aimee Berger-Girvalo

HowStuffWorks "Top 10 Green Heating and Cooling Technologies" - 1 views

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  • Aimee Berger-Girvalo on 15 Apr 13
     
    Breaks down the pros and cons of the systems most used for sustainable heating and cooling.
Aimee Berger-Girvalo

The Green House Effect | HOME Magazine - 1 views

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  • Aimee Berger-Girvalo on 14 Mar 13
     
    New science which addresses heat transfer can make any home super efficient.
markhutchins

What is Trench Composting? - 2 views

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shared by markhutchins on 31 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Trench composting is very simple. You dig a trench (we're using the word “trench” loosely here; it doesn't matter what shape your hole is) approximately twelve inches deep, add roughly four to six inches of compostable materials, such as kitchen scraps, spent garden plants, prunings, thinnings, and weeds, and bury it with the soil you dug out of the trench.
  • markhutchins on 31 Jan 15
     
    Here is an article on trench composting I thought the group might enjoy. My wife and I have reduced our waste to about one small kitchen bag a week by composting our kitchen scraps.
  • inyberg on 07 Feb 15
     
    Hi. That is a great idea. Saves the plant from drying out. I will do that for my garden. Funny I was reading about Africa a remote area where this happen. A university sent someone out here to help solve a issue for these people to have some kind of heat source like gas. Long story short you take all the food scraps throw them into a blender and dump in in a 50 gallon drum. Does this for a bout a week. Have another 50 gallon drum ready empty. This guy ran a gas line off the barrels into the house. It produce enough methane to cook and heat the house as long you keep dumping scraps into the barrel.
lynstar004

Compost Water Heater - 0 views

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  • lynstar004 on 02 Dec 14
     
    Harnessing the heat of a compost pile to heat a long tube of water coiled inside the pile following the Jean Pain method
Colin Murray

Solar Updraft Towers Generate Mega Power - 0 views

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  • Colin Murray on 10 Dec 12
     
    An Australian company has proposed a massive non-polluting power plant in Arizona. Utilizing a technology first implemented in 1903, this project would include building the world's second tallest structure. In essence, it's a massive conical greenhouse, funneling its rising heated air through power producing turbines.
Joe ONeill

Vodafone's New Energy-Generating Sleeping Bag Charges Your Phone as You Sleep Read mor... - 0 views

http://inhabitat.com/vodafones-new-energy-generating-sleeping-bag-can-charge-your-phone-as-you-sleep/ Ok, so I find this a bit hilarious. Nevertheless, this is a sustainably designed sleeping bag ...

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started by Joe ONeill on 13 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
James Hannemann

Sustainable Housing - Creating Energy Efficient and Healthy Homes - 0 views

www.sustainablehousing.ca/retrofit_your_home.php

shared by James Hannemann on 17 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Many homeowners are surprised to learn they can significantly reduce their energy consumption without having to move or build a new home! We will show you how you can retrofit your existing home with high-tech insulating materials and heating equipment to make your home more comfortable and reduce your operating costs for years to come.
James Hannemann

Off-the-grid communities: 5 places carving a sustainable path | MNN - Mother Nature Net... - 0 views

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shared by James Hannemann on 17 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Some off-the-grid communities are little more than subdivisions beyond the reach of any power company, where homeowners fend for themselves. Some off-the-grid communities take the intentional community approach, a gathering of like-minded residents living in a cooperative manner (and if you think that sounds like a commune, well, you’d be right).
  • Emerald Earth This intentional community on 189 acres Mendocino County near Boonville, Calif., was founded in 1989. The dozen or so people living here share a common house with a main kitchen, eating and meeting areas and shower. There is also a bathhouse/greenhouse with a sauna, showers and garden greenhouse. There are four small cabins heated by passive solar and wood stoves. Solar panels and a gas generator provide electricity. Use of composting outhouses means there is no need for a septic system.
  • Joe ONeill on 17 Jun 13
     
    I feel like such communities are going to be a necessary and vital part of the future. I wonder if everyone will be living in communities like these in say 100 years?
pauline hannemann

Ambitious solar energy system in Nevada reaches new milestone - 1 views

www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/...859986

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  • Molten salt is used as an energy transfer and distribution medium for the project. The concentrated sunlight is used to heat the molten salt from 500 degrees Fahrenheit to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The salt then moves through a series of alloy tubes and is used to set water supplies to boil. The steam created is used to power turbines that generate electrical power. SolarReserve notes that this is one of the most efficient ways to make use of solar energy.
  • pauline hannemann on 15 Apr 13
     
    I was not aware of this effort but found it interesting. Let me know what you think!
Anna Hakim

Sustainable Choices - In the Home Go For Green : Install solar water heaters, photovolt... - 1 views

sustainablechoices.stanford.edu/...solar.html

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  • Anna Hakim on 21 Apr 14
     
    This is such a cool website that is packed with information about how to make choices in our every day lives that effect our environment in positive ways. There is a section called "The Card" that leads you to some links to print out a free card that is packed full of great information about buying choices and transportation etc. and it is easy to use when you are out and about. Most of the tips do not involve large expenditures, they are very simple and easy to implement. I like this site because it provides information about how everyone can make simple, inexpensive positive changes.
inyberg

Algae for fuel - 1 views

Since the high rise price on gas there have been people thinking of ways to make a fuel source that is clean to burn and cheap to use. Algae has lipid oils in its makeup and it is shown to burn cle...

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started by inyberg on 21 Feb 15 no follow-up yet
ghiser1

Deep Litter Method - 3 views

If you have chickens, you might be interested in this. My wife and I live in northern Michigan where the temperatures can reach as low as -25 in the winter. We were having a hard time keeping our...

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started by ghiser1 on 10 Mar 15 no follow-up yet
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