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    Ash Disposal When Garbage Not An Answer

    Why? Pine trees grow best in acidic soil, while wood ash is somewhat alkaline. If anything, that sounds like the ideal fertilizer for normal plants...
    Post by: pdf27, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:38 AM in forum: The Pellet Mill - Pellet and Multifuel Stoves
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    Bad news for coffee

    The prime suspect for Colony Collapse Disorder over here is Neonicotinoid pesticides, which have just been banned over here for 2 years - see...
    Post by: pdf27, Jun 14, 2013 at 1:27 PM in forum: The Inglenook
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    Condensing stoves

    Fröling do a condensing unit for the back end of their boilers - probably makes more sense for a large boiler than a relatively small stove. See Page...
    Post by: pdf27, Jun 14, 2013 at 1:18 PM in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    How does your home's energy usage compare?

    Indeed, although the fact that petrol taxes are high doesn't tell the whole story as taxation is distributed differently. Property taxes, for...
    Post by: pdf27, Jun 7, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    How does your home's energy usage compare?

    Yep, seen all that (my in-laws are from the NJ/PA border). When they were over 18 months or so ago you could tell what rooms they had been in by...
    Post by: pdf27, Jun 6, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    A design challenge: solar heating low income homes in N Mexico

    Pretty common over here, got to be a bit careful about condensation though which may put the cost up a little....
    Post by: pdf27, Jun 5, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    A design challenge: solar heating low income homes in N Mexico

    My inclination for heating would be some sort of air collector, with a fan to suck the air through some flexible pipe in the slab and then vented...
    Post by: pdf27, Jun 5, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    Garden reports where you at and whats next?

    Sucks being in a northern climate sometimes - mine have only just started to flower! One of the nicest days we've had yet this year and the...
    Post by: pdf27, Jun 1, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    How does your home's energy usage compare?

    Depends on the price of electricity - I'm paying $0.30/kWh. It's also probable that being in a garage in Maine your fridge has significantly cooler...
    Post by: pdf27, May 31, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    Physics of Secondary Combustion

    All else being equal, a larger stove will have less surface area per unit volume and hence effectively be better insulated and lose less heat (and...
    Post by: pdf27, May 28, 2013 in forum: The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces
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    Thermal Cooker

    We've got one of these -...
    Post by: pdf27, May 28, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    How does your home's energy usage compare?

    When electricity is ~$0.30/kWh, the incentive is a lot bigger ;) Even at those consumption levels, I'm paying over $1,000/year for gas and...
    Post by: pdf27, May 27, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    Thermal Cooker

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haybox - mostly replaced with electric slow cookers nowadays as they're significantly easier to use and (of modern and...
    Post by: pdf27, May 27, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    How does your home's energy usage compare?

    I'm reasonably well aware of it (my in-laws are in NJ). There's no reason they can't attain significantly higher insulation values than I do - most...
    Post by: pdf27, May 26, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    Battery weed whacker

    I've got one (cheap Chinese type). Works fine for my application (small amounts of grass in out of the way places a long way from a power socket),...
    Post by: pdf27, May 26, 2013 in forum: DIY and General non-hearth advice
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    How does your home's energy usage compare?

    89 square metres, so approximately 1000 sq ft. Mid-terrace house so conditioned space on 2 of the 4 walls. Double glazing, walls are insulated...
    Post by: pdf27, May 26, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    How does your home's energy usage compare?

    Scored 9.7 with lots of estimations (coastal Washington is the best approximation I can get to the UK). ~2000 kWh of Electricity and ~300 Therms of...
    Post by: pdf27, May 23, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    Solar Airplane headed coast to coast....

    Been done (faster, actually) - there's more than one way to fly on solar power.......
    Post by: pdf27, May 7, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    Electricity from wood heat

    That would be the way to do it for a one-off, or building from scratch. Problem is, the only way I can see it being economical is if they already...
    Post by: pdf27, Apr 30, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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    Electricity from wood heat

    I think the real issue here is size, rather than cost - that system seems to be designed for at least a 35kW electrical load, and they seem to be...
    Post by: pdf27, Apr 30, 2013 in forum: The Green Room
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