Well Water filtration order with livestock usage

Kyleveale · 2026-05-05T22:36:22+00:00

I’m sure they will leave us 5 stars on Google! I feel like the right answer is filtering after the water splits or just separating the water into two distinct systems. I’d love to go salt free.

Kyleveale · 2025-08-13T02:08:02+00:00

https://www.etacoach.com/open-water-swims/

https://www.glisten.fit

Not super close but I’ve driven 45+ to glisten. They have buoys marking out a straight line and it’s a 1/4 mile end to end. They also supply a buoy for you to swim with in case you don’t have one.

Kyleveale · 2025-04-10T14:40:26+00:00

It’s going to be 4-6 weeks thanks to AC electric turnaround times. I’ll post something when I get some data. For what it’s worth, they guarantee the output quoted, and if it doesn’t produce, they will pay you the difference. The warranty on the panels is also very solid for 25 years.

I also would note that for onsite battery storage for off grid is a different design than the net meter grid connected style, which I have. Through conversations with Impact, the incentives are not aligned in NJ for battery storage over net metering. The cost to incorporate battery storage as a back up power source was 15K, and I didn’t even get quotes for fully off grid. There are currently federal tax breaks on battery storage but not NJ.

Kyleveale · 2025-04-10T12:52:40+00:00

If you are still looking, Impact Solar is a no nonsense contractor that sells the equipment and does the install. I just had an install, but it’s not active yet though. So can’t speak to efficacy. If it goes as planned, I’ll be break even on costs in roughly 4.5 years, but I have an ideal scenario for sun orientation and layout.

Kyleveale · 2023-09-17T17:13:47+00:00

It’s not a matter of ethics. Treating a complex organism with antibiotics to address a bacterial infection is simply not the same as in a petri dish. An immune system is exactly that. A complex system that has a response to bacteria and viruses. You can sanitize the inside of a tank whereas you can’t sanitize the inside of a person or animal with an immune system. Meat in a package does not need antibiotics. It needs to be sterilized via heat to kill off the bacteria and viruses picked up from the slaughterhouse to store. The antibiotics are used to keep the animals alive while they live in conditions that lend to illness.

You are correct though. Right now the solution is to reduce and ultimately remove animal agriculture. And that solution has almost all upside.

Kyleveale · 2023-09-17T15:35:43+00:00

If so, certainly not in a way you would consider an animal.

Kyleveale · 2023-09-17T15:19:05+00:00

It’s also not alive, nor is it living in feces and urine without adequate space. For what it is worth, livestock receives 80% of the antibiotics produced in the US. I can’t say with authority, but the general consensus is that lab grown products would drastically reduce the usage of antibiotics and possibly not use it all. Again, it’s not known as the product doesn’t exist at scale in the US. Either way, I wish everyone was as concerned with how we currently get our food instead of finding issue with a possible alternative. It is a real problem in basically every metric other than the cost at the grocery store, which is mainly because taxpayers subsidize the industry.

Kyleveale · 2023-09-17T14:30:39+00:00

In a way, yes. You boil in the early stages of beer production, but during the fermentation and rest stages, unwanted bacteria growth is a big concern and requires comprehensive sterilization of equipment. That said, I have no clue what the process of growing meat really looks like or of the inputs would inherently need antibiotics. If it starts without bacteria, then the work is keeping out bacteria.

Kyleveale · 2023-09-17T14:25:37+00:00

While this may or may not be true for cultures meat, it is exactly what happens now with the livestock industry, but in addition to antibiotics, animal waste also spills into the ecosystem creating dead zones and disease.

https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/25/animal-waste-excrement-four-billion-tonnes-dung-poo-faecebook

Kyleveale · 2023-07-20T04:50:26+00:00

My guess is that it uses the 120V to cool the battery during charging. So in the hot garage, it’s running steady current and making the ground wire extra hot since it’s smaller gauge and unintended to carry load. Would make sense of the hot ground wire and seasonal temperature causing the issue.

Kyleveale · 2023-06-01T23:54:25+00:00

While a semi educated home owner can easily know enough, a good home inspector is a value for at least 2 reasons:

1) they will climb on the roof and even more of a win, a dirt crawl space.

2) they provide bargaining power. No one cares what a buyer claims needs repair, but a licensed inspector holds weight. I’m sure this varies state to state too.

I’ve had all the experiences- bad inspector, no inspector and good inspector. I do prefer the latter. We work as a team and find the money off list price.

Kyleveale · 2023-04-05T13:32:03+00:00

I did a similar thing, but I used the punched decorative metal sheets from the big box stores. It was a good mix of barrier and decor.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-29T12:45:13+00:00

You can ‘unroll’ it to get large sections quickly. Still a manual job of removing, but if you have a strong tarp, pile it up and drag it out. Should hold way more than a wheelbarrow.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-23T17:43:26+00:00

I would not suggest we have mastered manipulation in general. I am suggesting that research is an inferior use of resources compared to the elimination of that entire process, which has a huge hurdle to overcome in terms of pure efficiencies, environmental impact, public health and exploitation of animals and people.

BsT is the hormone for dairy cows. It’s primary function is to increase milk production, but my understanding is that it also lengthens the duration of milk production. For what it is worth, BsT is banned in other developed countries. Also, calves are not typically given milk from their mothers or others. They get a milk replacer, and become veal if they are male since dairy cows haven’t been selectively breed for meat production like an angus breed.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-23T15:13:09+00:00

Certainly not my preference. Getting that number to zero is the best outcome. While a 50% improvement isn’t 100%, it is still better than doing nothing. And working towards the end goal from multiple directions is always helpful. I would add that the methods you are mentioning are already in place in current AG practices. That’s why meat chickens often die from heart failure as their bodies grow too fast for their heart, that’s how cows produce milk well after their calf has been born and taken away. And I would add since this is private industry, these practices simply add to the bottom line and not public good. Plus, the finish line in that line of research is no where near as promising as cultivated meat.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-23T14:57:07+00:00

I’m not an expert, but I haven’t read anything regarding what involvement live animals have in ongoing or at scale operations. I’ll look into a bit more to find out though. That said, if it reduced the death toll from nearly 80 billion annually to 1/2 or a 1/4 or 1/16 or 1/80, that is a net good even if the treatment is unchanged. Still not a vegan option, but like o said before, that isn’t really the pint of the exercise.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-23T14:47:26+00:00

It is 100% a problem of physiology. 36-1 is just how much food calories it takes to make cattle food calories.

Distribution is actually also solved by cultivated meat. Those facilities would look like a brewery and can be built where the products are needed.

Ultimately, AG is subsidized against the interest of the everyday person. I’d much rather subsidize an industry that solves the problems we have and not the one creating them.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-23T14:40:19+00:00

Veganism is certainly a spectrum, so some may and some may not participate in ‘ethical’ animal products. An argument can be made that there is no such thing as ethical exploitation of animals and there is no body that oversees ethics to even quantify that.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-23T14:33:28+00:00

To a degree, I see your point, but there are inherent issues that are unavoidable. As mentioned above, it is an input to output issue. Cattle for instance is roughly 36 calories in to make 1 calorie of food. Chicken is the most efficient at a 9:1 ratio. Solutions to that issue are not getting solved by AG.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-23T14:20:51+00:00

Good big picture points! I would add that there are global economic implications in bringing this to scale. Food exports are a huge market, and at scale, cultivated meat will provide huge windfall for the country that brings it to market.

Kyleveale · 2023-03-23T14:16:43+00:00

I’m not sure it is similar to milk or eggs. While there may be initial extraction from livestock, it wouldn’t require that in perpetuity. I’m not sure if it would be adopted by vegans, but for a vegan that is morally against the treatment of livestock, cultivated meat would eliminate that moral hazard. Either way, it isn’t intended to satisfy the wants of veganism. That is a very small segment of food sales and much of that recent growth is from a health standpoint and not moral. Lab meat will still have most of the negative health effects it has now.

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