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Anna Davidson, Dawn Kinney, Glen Kinney and Duncan Kinney on the roof the Kinney Earthship – 2,700 sq. feet of roof will collect 1,620 gallons of water from one inch of rain that is stored in 26,000 litres of cisterns. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures www.greenenergyfutures.ca
As Miso's tiling rapidly advanced across the floor I desperately tried to install the longer tap fittings and better quality waste pipes.
D-day minus 5 - Matt shows up to help me install the photo voltaic solar panels that are to generate the power for the compost toilet fans.
D-Day minus 12 and not a good time to discover that none of the tap hoses are long enough and the waste fittings are .... crap? Because each trip into town for extra materials was hugely time consuming I made the decision to loosely fit all the plumbing to check we had all the right fittings before fitting them properly.
Kitchen shelving hanging from the ceiling beams, above the Shaker-like peg rail in the almacén, Riocaliente
Using hand tools, standard section timber, limited skills although inspired by Enzo Mari's autoprogettazione furniture series from 1974, I made some shelving for the kitchen.
A short blog post about a table I made through a similar process
As we stared at the tank, strategies involving pulleys and climbing ropes, ladders, scaffold boards etc were all considered and discounted. The only feasible way was to get under it and try to lift it.
Naomi and I rented a small tiny home/cabin through Air BNB for a little weekend getaway to hit the restart button. We took her polaroid camera as well but I didn't scan any of those in.
Nikon D810
Prime Lenses for the interior, the Blackwater falls photo I believe I snapped with my new 24-70.
Beautiful anniversary weekend with my girl.
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Still claiming that "I don't do ladders" and "know nothing about roofing", Matt and I discover that fitting the panels to the roof is pretty straight forward thanks to the design of the click fit system supplied with the panels.
Once again friends rallied round!!! A big thanks to Milan, Matt, Slobodan, & Nik who pitched in to help us lift the huge steel tank into the building.
After a few minutes of manic running around, huffing puffing and grunting we managed to get the tank balanced on the edge of the upper concrete floor. Time for a breather!
Glen Kinney next to the Water Organizing Module or WOM. This is where the water comes into the Earthship from the cisterns and is filtered three times down to five microns to make the rainwater safe to drink. The home gets all of its water from rainwater and in 1.5 years of operation the 26,000 litres tanks have never been less than half full. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures See video and story: www.greenenergyfutures.ca
taken late morning w/a long lens,somewhere in the desert wilderness of arizona.post processed LR basics.
When you combine a serial entrepreneur, a local expert with extensive in-country experience, and an energy and electricity guru, you have a pretty powerful solar start-up. So it’s no surprise that the founding trio of Off-Grid: Electric, Xavier Helgesen, Erica Mackey, and Joshua Pierce, are turning heads with their new approach to reaching off-grid consumers. Off-Grid aims to address the distribution challenges, service challenges, and high upfront costs that are prevalent in many off-grid rural electrification programs. The Off-Grid approach, on the other hand, uses a pre-paid electricity model and mobile banking to enable consumers to pre-pay for energy in in small increments and use automated payments to control costs, dramatically reducing consumer risk and improving consumer services.
Visit Off-Grid at www.offgrid-electric.com