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The first version of my camper was featured in Rolling Homes by Shelter Publications, and is the smallest one I know of that is highway-legal. It is also fully self-contained for storm or stealth. It gets almost 50 MPG US, and is intended for more travel than camping. If I had an inter-city courier business, I'd try to store all the waste engine heat for use at night with phase-changing wax. I could travel 500 miles a day on the carbon footprint of my house in winter.
The basic setup should work for almost any car that has to be used for a living space. The driver's seat is not used in camp. The passenger side is a bed. Sitting sideways on the bed puts me in the kitchen, with my legs between the driver's seat and a custom cabinet. The sink is in a drawer that comes out just over the bed, and the stove is over my legs when in use. Details in the video or book.
I'm thinking I might try a small rocket stove for heating. I could shut it down to extract charcoal to make it carbon-negative with the charcoal being scattered as a soil amendment, or I could burn the charcoal to avoid a visible condensation plume for stealth camping.
Nicholas Tedford wrote:Maybe add in some Sepp Holtzer grain or some other permies plants/seed. . . Sunchokes, walking onion, comfry, etc.
paul wheaton wrote:As we explained in the Q&A yesterday, one of the main reasons we are doing this is to get enough coin to get a proper well on the lab. So the extra coin is going to the well.
Next, if we add three things to further the experiments, we find no change in the amount of people signing up. Nor do we find existing backers raising their pledges. But if we add things to the $100 level, we not only find existing backers raising their pledges, but we also find an increase in the number of people backing the kickstarter.
So, we are making the best out of what we have learned.