Mart Hale

I have been following this build and I am very impressed with the results he is getting with his setup.

Trace Oswald wrote:I bought one of the tools to make those a few years ago and just never got around to trying.  I'd be curious to hear what worked, what didn't work, etc about making the blocks.

Craig is a master of this art ->

https://rumble.com/v13lvql-making-smaller-soil-blocks-part-2-of-the-soil-block-series.html

Craig has like 5 videos on this subject,  I suggest watching them all if you are interested in this method.

Matt McSpadden wrote:I have use these for several years. I use Eliot Coleman's recipe, which does have peat moss in it. But it works well.

I have made it too wet before. I just let it sit for a day or so and it dries out enough for planting.

Would you share your recipe? I've been looking for a substitute for peat moss.

At the end of the year after my Bolivian sunflowers have died after the first frost, I cut them all down with a chain saw, and run them thru my electric wood chipper.

After this happens I fill up 55 gal barrels with the chopped up sunflowers.     On the top of this I start adding banana peels, and any other food scraps I have,     Then like magic I had black soldier flies show up and start turning this mixture,    Then after a years time it became like black gold, I have used this with air layering and it worked awesome.

But that is my mixture for my soil,  I may add just a bit of sea salt for minerals to feed the soil as they do in Korean natural farming, but that is it....

Trace Oswald wrote:I bought one of the tools to make those a few years ago and just never got around to trying.  I'd be curious to hear what worked, what didn't work, etc about making the blocks.

The one element I was missing to make it work was water....

Before you use the tool dip it in water...    

Also you need to add water to your soil mix at the right amount....       All I can say is I was adding too little the first time and I gave up, now adding water I am getting results, I think I have too much water but that was key...

This is promising... This is the first time I have tried to use the new soil I have made from bolivian sunflower stalks, it is holding together much better than other soil mixes I have used before, the water really helps, but I believe I have a bit too much water but I will set these out in the sun to dry a bit. At last this tool is useful to me!

Making soil blocks with soil blocker tool.

Use of excess solar to store heat in sand.

I burn most of the trash I have....

After that I am left with 8 oz cans which I use to grow plants in...

Then I am left with lids of cans, and tuna cans which i have not found a good use for yet.

M Buenijo wrote:

Mart Hale wrote:https://www.testurenergy.com/solar-cryophorus-turbine-system

This page states that they plan to use steam....

It could be the present systems they have are too new for them to be selling product.

I'm going to contact them this week. I'll get back to you. I need to feel them out and see if they're legit. I need specs.

Always best to get 3rd party verification.....

And hold on to your pocket book ;-)

https://www.testurenergy.com/solar-cryophorus-turbine-system

This page states that they plan to use steam....

It could be the present systems they have are too new for them to be selling product.


Oh on another design  of Tesla...

https://youtu.be/aDZdSZirJHA design for water...