craig howard

Another part of the original question was about charge controllers.
I want to mention diversion regulators because sometimes they work good with a load like this.
Whenever your DC voltage is too high it will divert the extra power to a load.
Something that doesn't always need to be on and would be good to turn on when the batteries are full.

There is certainly merit to an all mechanical wind approach either driving a compressor to inject air or a water pump to pump to a fountain. The problem with those mechanical pumps you see historically is they are close to the ground so don't fully capture the Wind. Traditionally they got very little wind except on the flats and trickled a little water to a raised holding tank or a watering trough so not much volume or much pressure...

Unless you are putting the windmill on the shore and running  air line or electricity to your air pump,
your windmill will be low and close to the surface. Not just because it's mechanical
Since the windmill is on a flat, water surface, some distance from trees and things that block wind, I don't think an electrical windmill is going to be worse than mechanical.
They have floating mechanical windmill aerators in Albert Lea lake in MN during the winter summer to reduce fish dieoff. I think they are common.
I believe other local lakes do the same and mechanical wind-powered aerators are somewhat common.

The electrical solution is more complex: especially if you add batteries and controllers.
Converting to electricity, then back to the mechanical action of the air compressor is inefficient compared to a mechanical solution.

John C Daley wrote:Craig, how does a community operate if the transmission towers fall over?
It seems ridiculous.

Electricity in my town was only out for 3 days. They do have redundant systems.
Seems ridiculous to build everything all across the state to handle a worse case scenario.
Because a worse case scenario almost never happens and when it does happen it doesn't happen all across the state.

Long answer: Siberia.
Most of the time poles and wires don't carry near as much load as when ice builds up and wind starts blowing.
Building them to always handle that much load would be expensive.
We had an ice storm that even brought down the big metal transmission towers.

I can't find it right now but there is a thread on here somewhere about keeping other people from using your good sewing scissors for cutting paper and stuff.
The best/funniest idea I saw was putting a padlock through the scissor holes, locking them together.

Carla, now that you've found your good hair cutting scissors. That thread might come in handy.
Found it:
https://permies.com/t/170937/borrow
People can be very protective of their good scissors..

My hair cutters just say FORGED STEEL USA.

Locally the habitat for humanity restore has them.

Since it settles to the bottom of the jar.
I stir it in when I get near the bottom.
I like the way it tastes.

This is a great idea.
I have a mattress topper and normal fitted sheets don't cover it and the mattress well.

From my experience clay will stick to most anything solid, that isn't powdery like drywall plaster.
It's even hard to wipe off your leg when it dries.
The roughness of the plywood might even help it stick.

First line in this topic:

Burra Maluca wrote:My son has been finding more things in the rubble heap at the site he's working on.  

 it sure has come a long way.

Consistent baking on a stovetop is something I've been wanting to figure out for a while.