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would you recommend switching to mymelody.com from gmail, conec?
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Mike Nelson here.
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i went to a modest-sized building in toronto which is supposed to be built on 'green principles' or whatever and they have a huge wall in the foyer which is just greenery fed with a constant waterfall and i couldn't help but think that probably affects the environment somehow.
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guidoanselmi posted:

fun idea: i wonder if i can make an stirling cycle engine with cycled water as the working fluid to heat water from a heliostat. decentralized, non-electric water heating. hmm if only i had the free time to think about this


my retired, no children uncle spent all of the money he would have spent on children on a pretty nice retirement house that has some form of geothermal (i think?) heating that involved water getting heated geothermally (or something) and then cycling through the rest of the house to heat it, instead of central heating. i think.

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Mike Nelson here.
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i volunteered a tiny bit at an 'environment day' thing in my town and one of the groups was some nearby farm that operated using permaculture / hugelkultur / whatever stuff i forget from the cool threads people posted here. i was too nervous to talk to them before i left but i read their literature and they seemed nice.
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mt.real
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guidoanselmi posted:

fun idea: i wonder if i can make an stirling cycle engine with cycled water as the working fluid to heat water from a heliostat. decentralized, non-electric water heating. hmm if only i had the free time to think about this


you could probably do that

you can do a lot of things

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if some Frenchman in the 1890s can invent solar powered steam engines then i'm sure its possible to DIY solar-water-heater your showers in 2014.
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Online
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is there a 2015 versio nof this thread? if not maybe we can bvypass that and go straight to the 2016 one
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I've got like, 3 posts ready to go
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poop posts
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maintenance was working on the plumbing in my apartment building today, now i have no hot water
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methlabretriever posted:

maintenance was working on the plumbing in my apartment building today, now i have no hot water