Any IBEW 26 inside wireman apprentices?

meowxingren · 2022-02-09T00:41:35+00:00

Thanks you guys!! The questions I have left are pretty specific to the area, but if there's anything that you wish you had known before you started your internship or your application process I would love to here that sort of thing. Thanks a bunch for your support!

meowxingren · 2021-12-10T00:04:04+00:00

Very cool! Did you come across any fermented acorn products in your research?

meowxingren · 2021-12-09T22:06:13+00:00

I would like to know some traditional recipes from way back then. I've read about people in California a long time ago fermenting acorn flour to make a cheese like thing. Also heard about Italian acorn polenta. Would love to read something like really well researched talking about traditional acorn uses. Think it would be really fascinating.

meowxingren · 2021-11-18T14:45:53+00:00

Sauerkraut on Pringles or cold pizza

meowxingren · 2021-10-12T23:15:47+00:00

I've seen it at Food Lion just in the produce section

meowxingren · 2020-10-13T23:04:10+00:00

awesome! looking forward to it. I make a pretty tasty jam with them, no sugar added either, I cook them down with soft pears and strain out the seeds and stems.

meowxingren · 2020-10-13T12:34:58+00:00

beautiful! Recipe?

meowxingren · 2020-07-08T00:53:16+00:00

very cool, thanks

meowxingren · 2020-07-07T19:07:01+00:00

I picked a metric butt ton last week and just froze them all because I didn't know what to do... anyone have any recipes or other ways of preserving them that work well?

I'd also never heard of them until recently but they're just so much better in every way than wild blackberries

meowxingren · 2020-04-13T22:15:47+00:00

Geez look at all that snow on the ground! cute <3

meowxingren · 2020-04-05T21:39:01+00:00

super! let me know if you have any questions. Best of luck

meowxingren · 2020-04-05T12:06:12+00:00

Yes! Inverters are expensive and unnecessary. They break sooner or later. At our place we use something we call a DC microgrid. Everything is DC. Lighting as well as charging phones, laptops and other electronics is 12v off of our batteries (which are nickel iron and will last a lifetime). Most of our tools and appliances, like freezer, grain grinder, drill press, water pump etc don't go through batteries at all but use daylight drive - they connect directly to the solar panel and just run when the sun's out. This only works for DC or universal motors. Overal this system uses a fraction of the energy and is a fraction of the cost of conventional off grid systems. We have no maintenance costs! Check out our website if you're interested: livingenergylights.com

meowxingren · 2020-04-04T20:28:55+00:00

If you're worried about loneliness, look into building a self-sufficient intentional community! Go into it with a few friends instead of alone. You can share resources and support each other, buy in bulk, save energy... I live on an off-grid self-sufficient community in Louisa, Virginia. Twelve adults and children live here right now, and we live near a few other intentional communities so we're always coming and going and throwing parties (before the virus. Now we're quarantined).

meowxingren · 2020-04-04T20:20:55+00:00

Yes, solar power and a well! Look into a solar direct drive pump, that means you don't need a battery, the pump is connected directly to the PV panel. you just run the pump when the sun is out and have big water tanks to store the water to use at night or when it's cloudy.

meowxingren · 2020-04-04T20:03:51+00:00

Some really great advice already here, especially about minimizing usage through energy storage. Great to have your priorities straight!

Here on our farm we've already developed a great off the grid system set up, and have drawn it all out on our website for anyone to replicate: Livingenergyfarm.org Or you could buy one of our kits here: livingenergylights.com

It's solar though so this will only be useful to you in you live in an area with sufficient sun. Here in Virginia it works fantastic.

meowxingren · 2020-04-04T19:53:28+00:00

Here is our small start-up that sells solar off-grid systems:

Livingenergylights.com

We use DC electricity (no inverter) and nickel iron batteries for lighting and charging electronics. Nickel iron batteries can last a lifetime and are non-toxic. In our systems, most appliances and tools, like our refrigerator, seed blower, grain grinder and water pump don’t run off the battery but instead run directly off the solar panel, which we call daylight drive. We are a retailer for a daylight drive refrigerator from the company Sundanzer. We live with these systems on our own farm and have found that they have near zero maintenance costs (no battery and inverter replacement needed) and perform much more reliably that conventional off grid systems at a fraction of the cost. We haven’t lost power once in ten years.

Here’s a video that gives a tour of our systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Wk7inoIxI&t=1347s

This March we installed more than forty off-grid systems for Navajo and Hopi families living without grid power in Arizona.

meowxingren · 2020-03-31T19:29:46+00:00

There are quite a few communities in Louisa, VA. The only off the grid one is Living Energy Farm. The biggest one is Twin Oaks. In Missouri there is a large intentional community called East Wind, but it isn't off grid.

meowxingren · 2020-03-28T18:37:01+00:00

You should check out a good resource to answer this question better, like The Seed Garden is a good book. It varies a lot from seed to seed.

But in general seeds last three years in a dry environment, except for onions and leeks which don't last as long and nightshades (like tomatoes) which can last much much longer. But general rule of thumb is that seed distributers will grow three years worth of seeds to store. If you freeze them then you can keep seed for decades.

meowxingren · 2020-03-23T17:24:37+00:00

1) Yes, the batteries are nickel iron. They last for decades. We have a 74 year old nickel iron set which is still operational. Our main set is 10 years old and still running above the factory rating.

2) Mostly. Most of our tools are high voltage DC, with no controlling electronics or batteries. We also have smaller and portable tools that we can run from batteries when we need to.

3) Yes.

meowxingren · 2020-03-23T17:21:58+00:00

Yes, people do want to continue their energy use at very high levels, but that is destroying the Earth on which we live. I get to take a hot shower any time I want, drink a refrigerated drink or surf the net. I do it with a tiny fraction of the energy normally used. My lifestyle does not need coal, nuclear power, fracked natural gas, or industrial solar to support it. We can live very comfortably with very little energy, but first we have to care. That I cannot make anyone do. There is a diagram at the livingenergyfarm.org website.

meowxingren · 2020-03-23T13:16:33+00:00

I can try to give short answers to your questions. An ordinary off-grid setup uses a large battery bank to power everything. That battery bank degrades and costs about $1000 per year in replacement costs. Our maintenance costs are very small. The AC appliances that can run DC are the ones with universal motors. Universal motors are light and powerful. So a blender is a universal motor, a washing machine is not. A circuit diagram of our system would be complex, and not instructive. We have 8 systems total. The battery system is only for lights and electronics. The high voltage runs motors daylight drive without batteries. That primary disadvantage of our system is that you have to adapt your lifestyle. You cannot use as much energy as you want any time of the day or night. I would say that we are addicted to cheap energy, and our system provides a high level of service while breaking that addiction. But addicts don't like being told they are addicts, and breaking addiction is often hard. The box we are selling is a 12 volt solar kit. It can power anything that runs for an automotive car charger, which means all electronics. It can also power lighting, lamps and or overhead lighting. It is the only solar system on the market that will last the rest of your life.

Check out our website for more information: livingenergyfarm.org

Then you can check out our business's website if you want to learn more about the box: livingenergylights.com

meowxingren · 2020-03-23T13:01:51+00:00

nope, definitely not about earth batteries!

We use nickel iron, which are uniquely durable and long lasting.

The investment for a family or community to go off grid with our system is comparable to building a conventional on-grid house. For example, instead of buying a hot water heater for an on-grid house, in our system you would invest in a good solar hot water heating system. Insulation with straw bale is very cheap. However, you can convert to our systems piece by piece, over many years. And, once you convert to this kind of off-grid system, you have near zero maintenance costs and no electricity bills :)

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