With love, from Finland
- Jeshurun Tiger
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Living a life that requires no vacation.
No Excuses Suburban Garden
300 total sq. ft. intensively cultivated, hugulkultur beds, producing at over 500lbs or $1500-5k of food annually in Zone 5b.
6 chickens worth of droppings, bedding, and 3 peoples worth of food waste provide plenty of compost to keep the beds growing indefinitely.
$500 up front cost(minus reclaimed materials): includes loam and compost, lumber for building beds and chicken coop, tools, chickens, and fencing for garden and chicken run, rain barrels or buckets
$300 upkeep costs(minus reclaimed supplies): includes seeds, chicken feed, mulch and water.
Freedom!
paul wheaton wrote:
So I am going to say that both bulbs will last 10,000 hours and electricity is a dime per kilowatt. 100 watts for 10,000 hours is 1000 kwh. $100.10 worth of electricity for the incandescent and $35 for the LED. A strong win for the LED.
"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books." ~ William A. Albrecht
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
My opinions are barely worth the paper they are written on here, but hopefully they can spark some new ideas, or at least a different train of thought
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Our ability to change the face of the earth increases at a faster rate than our ability to foresee the consequences of that change"
- L.Charles Birch
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Jarret Hynd wrote:
The only things I don't like about LEDs in consideration to permaculture are their complexity, and I'm not sure if they'll get any simpler to manufacture/assemble in the future.
My opinions are barely worth the paper they are written on here, but hopefully they can spark some new ideas, or at least a different train of thought
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
My opinions are barely worth the paper they are written on here, but hopefully they can spark some new ideas, or at least a different train of thought
Mike Phillipps wrote:...
I think Paul makes a good argument for the effective use of "waste heat". ... And unfortunately that argument for justifying incandescents is diminished.
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Peter VanDerWal wrote:Both of these provide far more heat per watt of electricity than a lightbulb does.
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Mike Barkley wrote: Simplest method doesn't even need wire except enough to connect a few broken pieces of solar cells together with a enough extra to connect to a AA or AAA battery. <<always use a diode to protect your solar cells because humans are LOUSY charge controllers>> Charge a few AAA batteries to operate a flashlight. Or one of those stick on under the pantry shelf lights, etc. A bit simplistic but it's effective light. Wireless wiring.
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