Mart Hale

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hf7CPemA0e4

My solution...

I spent much time trying to use rye flour to make rye bread.....

I did not like Rye bread because the flour would not rise very well.


My solution......      get rid of the rye bread, and use standard bread flour, and throw in the caraway seeds with the bread,  I get the taste of rye bread with a large fluffy loaf of bread.


So my fake rye bread is even better ;-)

Duplicate message..    See I fail here as well ;-)

My failures ( also known as learning what NOT to do ) ...

Tried growing okra in soil blocks,   I put them out in hot sun dried out and died.      

Did battle with aphids on my cabbage,  learned there was an ant nest in my soil was unable to identify so lost the cabbage.

Found raccoons invading my grow bags, so I lost soil and the time spent making the soil, and planting...      ( think I may of found a solution )

Found aphids destroyed my taro,     next year plan on doing war on ants that farm the aphids on my plants.

I guess some of this was my fault,  not knowing how to work with God's insects / plants.      

With my failures, I have also had break thru with heading toward my goal of growing more calories..

Had an electrician friend who used to say,  "if you are not breaking anything, then you are not doing anything"...

I do find it good to make a journal of what went wrong, and fail differently next year, as why be insane and repeat the same mistakes?   ;-)

Ann Torrence wrote:A great explanation of capitalism was in one of my college textbooks, yes still in print and a comic book at that:

Marx for Beginners

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We started a biotech business because of a failure in the gift economy.

For his science,  makes molecular markers in his lab. Because part of his work is federally funded, he is required by law to make them available to others in his field (he can't squash others' science by not sharing technology). He is not required to give them away; the university can also license his ideas and products to be sold through the free market. Back in 1995, he got a phone call from a colleague and friend:

I became aware of this system when I watched the film "The internet's own boy"...     I then became aware of all of the research that has been done with our tax dollars that you have to pay a fee to get...   Research that was created with our tax dollars.....

I was very impressed with what Aaron did in trying to liberate this information, but not impressed what the FBI did to Aaron.        There are information gatekeepers......    there seems to always be a toll....  even if you already paid for it to exist.

I am on David the Good's site which is all about gardening...
https://www.skool.com/the-survival-gardener
Pay to use, but cream of the crop gardners.



But there is also Brighteon's social network.
https://brighteon.social/web/timelines/home
Free, but looks to be little traffic.

Gab
https://gab.com/home
100%   Free speech which means there are literal Nazi's on the site,    after I blocked about 150 accounts and went to the groups I was interested in it became usable to me.

Facebook, was on, but after I found it was a Darpa project decided to abandon ship.


MeWe  
Started going the way of Facebook and collecting way too much data.

I love this meta search,  took some time to learn to configure this, but very powerful..

The big road block with the lithium cells you are looking  use is lithium cells of this chemistry cannot be charged at cold temps.          Most BMS have temp protection in them for when it is cold they will shut off charge to the batteries to prevent damage.

To get around this some battery packs come with built in heaters that  will heat the batteries to a level that charging can start.

There are chemistries of Lithium batteries out there that can deal with the cold, but normally they are more expensive as I recall.

I would recommend  youtube channel  "Will Prowse"    as he tests batteries,  BMS  to see if they deliver what the label says they do,  many times they do not.

I also recommend looking at a site called "battery hookup"    they sell used batteries  at good prices.      David Poz on youtube has done conversions of golf carts with different types of  batteries.

Those are some places I would recommend checking out.