socalledunitedstates:

How to Build a Kilowatt Wind Turbine for Under $30

This is a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine which uses wind energy to drive things like an alternator/generator for producing electricity, or air and water pumps for cooling, irrigation and similar.

The turbine uses the 35-40% mechanically efficient Lenz2 lift+drag design. It is made almost entirely from scrap materials, and should cost about $15-$30 for the six vane version, which can be made by two people in four hours without much effort. 

The three vane version has been successfully survival tested to 80 km/h sustained winds and the six vane version to 105 km. Both will do more, but exactly how much has not yet been ascertained. The current longest running version has been up since early 2014, through reasonable storms, with no noticeable wear and tear as of yet.

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EDIT: Old link broke, changed it out to a new one

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10knotes:

THIS CAT HAS LOST ITS MIND!

Going into maximum overmlem

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everythingfox:

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everythingfox:

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misadventured-piteous-overthrows:

Update on the no-till summer field! The first succession of herbs is doing great and we’ve been able to take bunches to a couple of markets now. We just pulled off the plastic for the second herb row and it looks great! Basically no weeds and the stuff that was under the plastic was yellow and dying. We pulled all the debris to the side so we can mulch the pepper row with it.

What we’ve learned so far from our no-till field:

1. Plastic tarping seems more effective in warmer weather because things grow and geminate under it just to be killed or solarized
2. There’s a lot of ants…
3. There’s a lot of weeds…
4. We experimentally only broad forked half of the herb bed and the half that was forked seemed to bounce back faster after transplanting and established better
5. It’s really hard to plant into an un-forked bed
6. This seems like a doable system and we could see it over time becoming easier as the soil becomes less compacted the more we work it.

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kniivila:

Dog does not understand

ARE YOU KIDDING ME THIS RULES