william lane

Think I'm in the same no email/token boat as some. I went to Scubbly and found a resend token link and tried that. I was given the "you have no tokens linked to you email address" message. I did not receive the email with the links to vimeo either so I assume i have made some sort of mistake somewhere but I am not sure where.

william

I sent you an email a little over a week ago.  That email had the links in it for the videos.  If you did not see the email with the links, then please check your spam box.


Man I am sorry for being a pest but i have 28 items in my spam all several months old. I see all the dailyish updates, and the kick starter updates. No email with links.

William

paul wheaton wrote:

william lane wrote:I think I am one of the ones that managed to mess this up. I thought I had set up a vimeo account and linked an address. I really recall doing so, but vimeo disagreed. I have now set up an account.

wlanedc@gmail is the kickstarter email that did receive updates

https://vimeo.com/user55961942 is the now created vimeo account.

Sorry for being a pain

Willaim

I found your account ...   okay, I think I have you set up at vimeo now.  Give it a try!

ok i still think i am a problem child. I logged in to vimeo and saw no videos approved or credits or other access points. I went to read the mentioned support tabs in the update email update #31 from kick starter. It mentioned an email with links that must be clicked while logged into vimeo. I show update #25, #31, #32 as the last three emails I have. None seems to have links, or I am missing something.

Sorry again,

william

I think I am one of the ones that managed to mess this up. I thought I had set up a vimeo account and linked an address. I really recall doing so, but vimeo disagreed. I have now set up an account.

wlanedc@gmail is the kickstarter email that did receive updates

https://vimeo.com/user55961942 is the now created vimeo account.

Sorry for being a pain

Willaim

Hedge (aka Bodark or Osage Orange) would do fine as a post inside a HK. The other option might be to have your hoops rest in pvc with holes cut to accept the ends. The base would settle with the HK until the bed demands a rebuild. However it is accomplished having the side float on the HK seems better than having it fall away from a post a little each year

interesting idea

Thanks for the thoughts. I will post pics as I go

I have an old barn that is begging to be converted into a green house. The size of the barn is such that if I am going to have any hope of heating it through the winter I am going to have to get a lot of stuff right in the build and still yet do a lot more stuff once the passive measures are in place.

The walls of the old barn are eight inches thick and have 3 one inch steel cables through them. They stand 8 feet tall measured from the slab and seven and a half to nine depending on the slope on the outer walls. I am considering wrapping them in straw bales in the same fashion one would build a straw home. A second more complicated and more expensive option would be to hire in dirt work to wrap the north east n west sides of the building in dirt. My desire is to approach the function of the an under ground greenhouse.

Given that most of my heat loss is going to be up out of the roof....

Anyone know if or think I will even notice the benefit of either straw or dirt with an already 8" thick concrete wall? The straw gives up mass but traps more air. The dirt has more mass but it will be biased to the bottom of the wall where the straw will be the same width top to bottom.

Any advice on or off topic is appreciated

Thank you permies I have learned so much already and feel like I will be able to apply so many ideas I discovered here.
Thanks again

Russ

OK!! I am also a bone head! I spoke to my uncle sorta bummed out that we may not be able to make it work and he corrected me on a major error. The flow rates are per min not per hour!!! I wondered how this produced what looked to be a LOT of water and had no power to do work... sooo with that in mind, does this sound right?

500/min = 30,000 per hour x 8.35 = 250,500 gal/hr
250,500 x 25' drop is 6262500 which divided by 3600 sec per hour = 1739
1739 divided by 550 = 3.16 hp at peak and 1.5 ish on the low end (250 gal per min).

Given that new math how does the prospect of a water wheel making power or turning a saw blade sound now?

And as far as the system not being enough to heat a whole green house, keep in mind this will be a gridded system. Its intent is to offset and augment not replace. Maybe one day replace, but I am a toe dipper into the permie pool not a headlong cannon baller.

Also this really all was about what brand or set up of hardware is the best for multi modal. Is any controller better than another? Any brand to trust or avoid? Good article to read about how to incorporate wind hydro and solar into one system?

sorry for my mistakes

thanks for the help

william

thanks for all the input. I really appreciate any and all input. Even "its not gonna work!" I am undaunted, as I also do not mid failing five ways from sunday and falling bass akwards into something that works. Making the best use of and squeezing the most out of the spring is the central goal. Hydro power is not feasible then thats ok (read gonna try anyway but quietly without expectations) Any re-directive advice would be appreciated as well assuming its a bit beyond "drink it and water plants with it." And i guess if that is all I get out of it I am already dearly blessed.


Thanks again

william

thanks. I figure all my numbers could be off. I'm just parroting what I was told by the engineer next door. It didn't really match what i have read else where on this and other sites, hence the open invite for advice . I have no expectations other than water will turn a wheel and i will build out from there. Maybe he meant if we get another 15 of drop chasing the exit up the hill? 25 foot of drop at 500 gal make 9 horse?

william