Luke Bryan

Greetings and happy PI DAY to all!
If you hadn't heard, Pi day is a holiday on (3.14) March 14th celebrating mathematics.
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If you live in Southern Oregon, please visit the CARE ham radio hamfair this Saturday (March 15th) in Medford:
https://howtotrainyourrobot.com/medford-ham-fair-next-weekend-plus-a-pi-day-sale/

There will be Faraday cage boxes for sale and demos of the program (available on iOS, Android, Windows, Linux.)

I'd like to know more about the earth househouse/shed. Are they durable, I don't see this type often.

I made a your-face-in-a-pie trick with OpenCV at a computer programming demo Pi day party -
https://www.instructables.com/Your-Face-in-a-Pie-Not-a-Pie-in-the-Face-Droste-Ef/
https://howtotrainyourrobot.com/green-screening-a-recursive-green-screen-for-a-unique-pie-day-effect/

What about Kohlrabi? I just tried one this year (for the first time I think?) It is like an apple of a vegetable it's great.

Daphne Singingtree wrote:

The house will be finished the beginning of February and we are starting to take applications now.

How did you set up the design/build it? What builder?

David Baillie wrote:

Mike Kay wrote:No mention of the elephant in the room of what the ethical cost is to rechargeable batteries using cobalt

What about the fact they got much better in recent years - reducing the amount of Cobalt and other conflict minerals in recent years' EV batteries?
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/09/22/everything-you-need-to-know-about-teslas-new-4680-battery-cell/

The old car batteries are kept in warehouses mostly or sometimes recycled - those are very valuable metals and elements and that's the good thing about electric car batteries/Li-ion in general, instead of just crushing the whole car at the end of its usable life it will have a large amount of chemical elements they can mine out later or maybe even just use now as part of a grid tie energy sinc.

Interesting discussion here
https://www.chevybolt.org/threads/whats-happening-to-recalled-batteries.42348/
and an old WIRED article for more info - https://www.wired.com/story/cars-going-electric-what-happens-used-batteries/

R Marr wrote:
Peruse the channel for all the other things discussed in the past. You wont see this technology demonstrated anywhere else

That's interesting, is this a what one might call a controversial energy systems meet up? "TESLA SCIENCE & FREE-ENERGY MOVEMENT"

"THIS IS THE WORLD’S FAMOUS CONFERENCE WHERE HIGHLY DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES ARE DEMONSTRATED OPENLY"

Those sound like the same kind of claim on certain sites that label themselves "no. 1 medical source/newsletter" or such and such, when, they most definitely are not.

Remember the Steorn company and their "Free-energy" perpetual energy promotion years back? before they went bankrupt?

but maybe that is not at all the meaning of this - more about sustainable "free energy" like setting up your long term off grid solar etc.?

What is one thing that you had learned or found useful in their previous sessions?

I don't know if you saw this on the news, but some light houses are going for sale:
https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/gsa-properties/2023-lighthouse-season#public_offerings

Probably not a great farming place but great for fishing maybe?