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Cutting tempered glass is not going to be practical.

"We watch adobes being made"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Your post piqued my curiosity. I've worked my share of concrete and mortar, but didn't really understand what you meant. A google search fed me a video of a semi-automated brick production, but I wasn't satisfied with that. This video looks a lot more like traditional brick making. Still haven't found the specs for "adobe" - so, another google - - -

Ahhh - finding and choosing, and testing the soil for suitability: http://www.doityourself.com/st... I noticed that in the first link they were mixing in what appears to be portland cement. Basically, I guess there are lots of recipes, and the craftsmen doing the work will adjust to whatever might be available.

Thanks for your post, Cusco!

Composting is one of the easiest things to do. Problem is space.
here is a link http://www.doityourself.com/stry/h2composting

easiest way to start ...
with your garden, pick out a spot in the back not to visible, where you don't get good production of your fruits and veggies.
get some chicken wire ( about 6 linear feet ) make it into a tube and stake it into the ground
load a ton of leaves ( half way up ), add about 4 inches of dirt and then top off with more leaves, wait a week and add more dirt
in about 1 month you'll have a good solid base of composting material.
then you can start adding all sorts of organic waste, mix well.

every year move the chick wire to a new spot and start over.

when I lived in NJ, I had a compost pile that was about 4' x 10' and depending on what part of the year it was it was from
3 feet high to 6 feet high. every fall I would drag ALL the leaves to the spot, 2 feet of leaves, 4 inches of dirt, over and over
again until it was about 6 feet high. Leaves compress real nicely, and snow melts on the pile. come early spring, get your
shovel, and rotate the pile, it's hard work but it's good to do, by the time you are ready for planting, you tilled the soil,
added about 3 inches of compost into the tilling and you have half of your compost.

you rebuild your compost pile by using your yard clippings, grass, leaves, branches and your basic organic matter that you
toss into your pile.

Rotate your pile, it's hard work but try doing it every 2 weeks, it rotates the nutrients and add's new fresh air into the pile

ALSO, anything growing out of your pile is most likely very tasty ( once identified properly ). I had a ton of eggplants
  ( I don't eat it ) growing out of the pile, the ladies next door loved them ( and the flowers ).

sometimes ant's get in your pile, don't worry, they are helping, just work on a different section of the pile that month
then you can rotate there little home.

Don't put meat into your pile until you got 3 solid feet of compost. you want to bury cooked meat deeply otherwise you'll
end up with a rodent problem ( or possum or raccoons )

I liked to add sand to my pile so every year I would add about 2 bags.

They would just need to provide the energy cost used as the basis. You see it all the time on appliances. (actually, in the US its required on new appliances)

Since most appliances use so little energy compared to what recharging a car would require, it's not really a big deal if the number on the appliance is off a bit.

Also, there are many locations with "peak hour" electricity costs. For many appliances, this isn't really important, as you generally don't get a choice when to use them (like stoves). For others (like dishwashers), you do get a choice, and electric cars would fall into this category (since you should be able to charge them during the non-peak hours).

One other thing I noticed on the one sample sticker is that they have used the assumption of 15000 miles/year to compute the "savings". The problem is that the car on the sample sticker can only travel 100 miles before it needs a 4-hour recharge. Technically, this car could travel 15K miles in a year, but it's highly unlikely. But, based on that and the 34kwh/100 miles, the car would use 425kwh every month. That means that it uses as much in 2 months as the fridge in your sample sticker uses in a year.

So, as 6 times the usage, you need more accurate numbers for the rate to make a truly informed decision compared to other vehicles that use a different power source (hybrid, gasoline, diesel, E85, etc.).

They'd be obsolete month to month, as rates change not only due to the season, but due to the tiered pricing commonly used.

They would just need to provide the energy cost used as the basis. You see it all the time on appliances. (actually, in the US its required on new appliances)

PV. Again, you failed to include the energy to drive to someones house, sell them the system, fed ex the paperwork, power the sales office and the installation truck etc

Okay, so add another year to the payable.

roofs are warrantied for about 15 years so that system has to go up and down several times.

For all your roofing needs.
LIFE TIME WARRANTY ON WORKMANSHIP
We install 25 year to 50 year roofing.

Comp asphalt shingles over two plies of paper + felt.
Will sheet over the "swale drains" to provide a sloped run off the roof, and will install gutters to the appropriate edges of the roof (bypassing the built-in drains). 20-25 year warranty.

Choosing The Right Warranty
Warranties up to 50 years.

No one will invest in PV without government subsidies

No one invests in coal or nuclear without subsidies either.

Betcha those who think Wind is cheap are ignoring the losses of transmission.

From one of my own posts, about using wind as a baseload: The wind may be blowing somewhere but where?
"The further electricity has to be transmitted the more power is lost even with HVDC, High-voltage direct current [wikipedia.org]. Now I'm not against alternative energy sources like solar and wind, I'd like to build a home Off the Grid [offthegrid.com] powered by solar and/or wind, but there has to be a baseload of power. For Off the Grid applications batteries are used."

My bets are on CSP and Wave energy

My bets are on a combination of different alternative energy sources.

but first plug the leaks, and end the subsidies for oil - nothing like price to fix an addiction.

Either end all subsidies or give alternative energy the same subsidies.

Falcon

I don't get this attitude towards the computer industry. In every other industry, you get bent right over for EVERYTHING. Get a car fixed, you're looking at $100/hr if it's a dealership, plus shop materials, plus parts at a premium price. Need an A/C unit fixed? Plumbing fixed? Kitchen cabinets installed? All big ticket items (In an article I read "For a mid-range kitchen remodeling job, the average cost was $43,804." 43 FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS!!). People will bitch about it, but they'll always pay up, and in the end consider the person they paid to be a "highly qualified professional that was worth it" even though in many cases they are anything BUT. I've seen shoddy work in every industry, as well as good work.

Comes to computers and everybody wants everything for free, or for minimum-wage prices. Why is this industry so inferior? Why don't they deserve to make a decent living like your local plumber?

The typical response is "oh well, they don't know anything anyways, I wouldn't pay for those twits to look at my system" which completely ignores the facts that the person with the problem doesn't have the skills to fix it themselves, and the fact that because the pay is so shitty, you're generally not going to find the really qualified people willing to take the jobs.

So yeah, I say gouge the people for what you can. Every other industry does it to us and it's not going to change anytime soon. It's time for us to take some of that money back.

As I have pondered doing this, I had concerns about the humidity level of the wood going up and down as the case got hot, then cold, then hot again. I wondered if this would eventually crack or split the wood. What is the longevity? Is his choice of woods helpful in this regard? My chioce would have been ceder, what a great smelling computer, but it is very prone to splitting....

Okay, I'll admit ahead of time this is me speaking out the lesser end of my body. That said...

What very very little I know of solar panels and Windmills (wind turbines to be exact) is that solar panels are (last I knew?) very inefficient in that it takes more power to make the panels than what they can create over the span of their lifetime, thus the reason I've never bothered looking at them.

Wind turbines rock. They're fun to look at, dangerous to make (huge freaking magnets that you're trying to *gently* set into a wheel with opposing poles dangerously nearby. hope you didn't want that hand...), and energy-efficient. The problem is that here I don't have the land-space to do it, couldn't get a permit to put it on the roof, and many braindead people around here think that they are eye-sores. Pfft.

So I had a moment of curousity. What about pinwheels instead of one huge turbine?

I'm not joking (I don't think?), you could probably get a set of small magnets, make a little alternator and build it into several pinwheels, and use some outdoor-safe wiring to run the power they generate back to some batteries near/in the house. The question becomes one of whether a garden of small pinwheels can even come close to the power generation of that one big wind turbine. :\

Oh, btw...for the guys considering the solar panels on the roof, it then goes without question that you're not going to want to block the panels with a shade tree, meaning your roof is taking direct sunlight. There was an article that got posted to digg.com a few weeks back about little things you can do to keep you house cool without AC, and one is a special reflective paint that is usually intended for mobile homes and RV's. You paint this on the roof, and it is supposed to reflect the majority of radiation. Look here, and start reading where it says "Installing a Radiant Barrier". The first paragraphs talks about a foil barrier beneath the roof (awesome idea, btw) and the second about the paint, which is really a type of asphalt.

Good stuff. This way you get your solar energy in DC, not in heat. ;)

It runs on IE, and the average /. reader won't touch that with a bargepole

For those slashdot users who would touch IE if they had a barge pole:

General Purpose 6-12 ft extension pole
Avery Push Pole (for water use)

In homes built to comply with the National Electrical Code (the Code), GFCI protection is required for most outdoor receptacles (since 1973), bathroom receptacle circuits (since 1975), garage wall outlets (since 1978), kitchen receptacles (since 1987), and all receptacles in crawl spaces and unfinished basements (since 1990).

Didn't you know, wallpaper is very technical!

There is measuring & gluing not to mention smoothing!!

It's all here: http://doityourself.com/wallpaper/howtohangwallpap er.htm

I don't think we'll see action on this area until people start sending annonymous copyright takedown notices to the ISP's of members of congress, as well as the heads of major corporations, showing them the folly of giving others full control over your life and business without due process. Of course such a thing would be illegal and dangerous, and a person would have to be crazy to do such a thing. After all, laws are a social contract, which we must obey in order for society to function. In a society ravaged by terrorism like ours, sending mixed messages is the last thing we can afford.

I agree, in the sense that information overload is a bigger problem than "bad" or meaningless information on the Net.

However, the bigger problem is a lack of information litarcy. It never ceases to amaze me how many people do not know how to evaluate information sources. It is fine to use biased information, if one is aware that it is biased, and in what manner. I have come to the conclusion that there is very little information out there that is not biased in some way or another. Humans are fallible and spin is everywhere. A fairly good look at how both sides of US politics use spin, check out Spin Sanity. Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan have impressed me with their willingness to expose many figures, despite party affiliation.

Personally, I try to balance the situation by seeking information from both sides of the issue. For example, both Free Republic (a conservative US site) and Alternet (a progressive site) are politicaly biased. Neither one should be used without verifying facts and occurances from other sources.

More notable is the failure of the US media to cover international stories that are vital to our understanding of world events. Personally, whenever we are treated to a deluge of one story on every channel, station and newpaper, I think.."what aren't you telling me." That is why I go to the net and read news sources from international sources.

A worse situation is evidenced by the number of people, of all ages, who are unable to discern when someone is trying to sell them something, or persuade them of some idea; rather than truly inform them. A prime example is how many people will locate sites that claim to be offering great hhealth information, but are also trying to sell eeither pharmacauticals or herbal remedies. While the information may be "correct" they are far more likely to only present information supporting the use of their products. Commercially supported sites can be great for gaining ideas and facts that one can then follow up by perusing other sites.

Colleges and Universities libraries in many US states are now offering information literacy classes. I know of several that have added this to required courses. However, this doesn't touch the large groups of credulous people who graduated years ago, who are not attending college and whose secondary schools do not include this skill in their curriculum.

Many people fall for scams, precisely because they do not realize that they ought to research this information-- much less do they know how to do such a thing! I think I reccomend Snopes at laest once a month in response to an email sent to me by friends and family!

Do not rely upon just one web search. No engine is able to scour the entire net, for a variety of reasons. There are information sources with primary sources of data on the Net. However, many of them are prohibitively expensive for an individual. This is where a local public and/or academic library can assist users.

Don't get me wrong, I've often gained additioanl ideas and insight from small weblogs and personal sites. These are especially good for comparing notes with others in similar situations. Sometimes I do not need authoritative data. For example if I want tips on refurbishing furniture Do it Yourself is a great source. On the other hand, if I was a carpentry apprentice, there are probably other sources better suited for a professional. Similarly, if I want to connect with others who are dealing with specific health problems, or simply want basic introductory information Web MD is good enough. However, if I'm making treatment decisions, I'd do better to go to a National or Internations association of folks dealing with the syndrome, as well as sites of doctors and researchers in

The solution.

Also available at your local walmart and home depot (or currys, or tesco, or whatever hardware/electronics store you have in your country).

Test one first. Normally the foam adhesive is VERY easy to remove (almost too easy), and doesn't damage most surfaces (apart from drywall).

Note: Use white cable for best effect.

Shouldn't cost you more than $20 or $30.

Solution #2.

HTH!

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