Probably finally decided to pay off the credit cards
It's so small one S9 would be more than enough. Even better would be a single board s19 Loki rig. Could even run it during the day with solar.
With the Bitcoin price approaching new all time highs, I've started to reflect on Bitcoin it's impact on my life.
At this point, I think it's safe to say I live a bitcoin integrated life. Bitcoin is my money, Bitcoin is my community, Bitcoin heats my home, preserves my food and medicine, grows my plants. Bitcoin comes from the sun that shines on my homestead. I use Bitcoin to buy the highest quality local food for my family at Bitcoin meetups. I sell the highest quality food and medicine I'm capable of producing for Bitcoin to bitcoiners. I share my intellectual capital with Bitcoiners and host them at my homestead.
What a life integrated with Bitcoin has provided is a true form savings, stronger community, healthier and more profitable lifestyle and a more aligned sense of purpose.
I am thankful for Bitcoin and Bitcoiners!
#homesteading #permaculture #permies #bitcoin #bitcoinmeetup #bitcoinmining
Front door is hung and cedar shake complete on the 20ft tiny house
Finally completed the door for the tiny house and got it hung. The last of the cedar shake is installed too. All that's left is the finish trim around the door frame and some paint on the window trim front of the tiny house is done. I'm looking forward to hosting all sorts students, instructors, and guests in it over the years.
#homesteading #carpentry #woodworking #tinyhouse #meshtadel #grownostr
I heard of the pea gravel design from Pail Wheaton. It's faster to build and disassemble. Easier to modify over time but not as good as catching and storing heat as cob.
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Thank you #Plebchain for joining in on the fun live.
For those that missed the live show, enjoy!
Is it just me or does amethyst and primal ln urls don't mix? Maybe it's tor? Not sure but I can't zap!!!
Couldn't say. I would think you could do the whole thing but I don't really know. I don't know how long the oil will last at this point. I am expecting to lose the board I dunked to some unexpected and unknown issue that will arise from the canola oil.
Part of my experiment is to use whats available immediately/locally. The liquid vitamin e oil from the grocery store won't work?
Is tocopherol just vitamin e oil??
Cheapest most widely available dielectric I could come up with. No telling how long it will last though. Hopefully until April. After that I won't need it anymore.
It's will save you so much time and firewood. It's just a little fragile and can take some fiddling.
I just expanded it from the original diy plans I started with. It's pretty simple, just a lot of different components to plug together. Here's what I started with:
https://soulyrested.com/2019/01/08/build-your-own-reverse-osmosis-system-for-maple-syrup/
That's going to make a shitload of syrup for you this season!!
The 8-forms of Capital is the framework I use to determine how to spend my time! I will go over this concept in detail on March 9th. Zap this note with a v4v contribution ($5 suggested) and I'll DM you a link to the private live stream.
The 8-forms of Capital is the framework I use to determine how to spend my time! I will go over this concept in detail on March 9th. Zap this note with a v4v contribution ($5 suggested) and I'll DM you a link to the private live stream.
I need to take a physics class, I might be able to do more cool stuff if I actually knew what was going on instead of just making shit up...
Using a homemade reverse osmosis system to concentrate maple sap
https://v.nostr.build/K362.mp4
When I started making maple syrup, I only tapped a few trees and boiled off the water with propane. It was clear that continuing to use propane wouldn't scale but at the same time I didn't want to spend the time building a wood fired boiler or the money buying one. I had just started heating the house with wood via a rocket mass heater, so if I was going to prepare firewood it would be more valuable heating the house instead of boiling maple sap.
Ultimately, I found some plans to build an affordable reverse osmosis system which would concentrate the sap by removing most of the water before starting to boil.
I used it successfully for a couple years but I got greedy and left it out over night. It ended up freezing and was destroyed by the ice. I was reaching the limit of what I could process with it which was why I tried to run it overnight in order to keep up. This mistake, forced me to upgrade to the current system which should allow me to continue to scale the maple sugar making system here at the homestead.
Some things I want to clarify from the video, the filter can concentrate the sap from around 2 brix to about 6 brix and the pump uses ~45w of power. The actual energy cost to concentrate the sap will depend on the starting sugar content and temperature. So when I say 65 cents that is a very general figure. The biggest takeaway is that the filter if maintained properly will concentrate sap using much less energy than boiling. However, if the filter gets fouled (or frozen...) much of the cost savings are erased.
#homesteading #permaculture #permies #maplesyrup #maplesugaring #maplesugarbush
Immersion mining with canola oil to concentrate maple sap more quickly
https://v.nostr.build/n997.mp4
I'm using a single S9 hash board immersed in canola oil to heat maple sap to increase the effectiveness of the reverse osmosis sap concentration system.
The weather conditions this season have caused the maple sap to be cold and stay cold which drastically slows down the ability of the RO system to filter water out of it. I ran into a bottle neck where there is more sap than I can keep up with concentrating so I needed to come up with something quickly!
Ideally if the temperature of the sap is 77°f the filter will operate most effectively without damaging the RO membrane. Of course, my mind immediately turned to Bitcoin mining for the heating solution. What I came up with was an immersion system using the homebrew equipment I already had to heat the sap just before it entered the RO. This would allow the majority of the sap to stay cool keeping it from spoiling and still remove the most water possible.
The only thing I didn't have for the immersion system was the dielectric fluid. I had no idea where to find the proper fluid nor did it make sense to pay the high cost for it. The application for this system is very specific and I will only need it until April. I had been joking about using canola oil as dielectric fluid for almost a year but for this situation it seemed like the perfect fit. Canola oil is 70% cheaper than bitcool before shipping and was immediately available!
Amazingly, I put everything together and it worked very well without major adjustments. I tip-toed the voltage and frequency of the single S9 hashboard up slowly to find the right balance in temperatures between the two fluid loops. Ultimately, I ended up with an overclocked board drawing over 600w! By the time I got the system setup and dialed in I was already half way through concentrating this collection of sap. The next collection will offer more concrete data on what this system is capable of. For now, even with the worst S9 board I have, I'm getting a 15% rebate on the total power usage of the whole process and it's definitely concentrating sap more quickly. All for ~$10 of canola oil... 👀
#homesteading #permaculture #permies #plebminer #meshtadel #grownostr #immersionmining #seedoil #homemining #homeminer #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #maplesyrup #maplesugaring #reverseosmosis
That's a great idea! Do you know people that are looking for a product like that? I have no idea how to find anyone.
I am trying to figure out how long it lasts. Hopefully I can get a couple months out of it.
You talking about ethanol? Yeah, fuel from biomass is a cool concept. I'm immersion mining with canola oil right now though. That's what I was referring to.
In the process of confirming that canola oil is an effective dielectric fluid. 👀👀
If you aren't delinquent, they won't disconnect power right away.
A rabbit harvest is way overdue
https://v.nostr.build/6MWR.mp4
We have way too many rabbits that we've been feeding only because we haven't prioritized harvesting them. We usually catch them as part of the morning chores but with the winter chores it has fallen out of routine. We just ate three from the crock pot, have one resting in the fridge and one in a cage that I'll process tomorrow. I hope to have the rest harvested over the next week or so. We are still undecided whether to get new breeding stock in the spring or keep what we have. We are are looking for slightly larger rabbits.
#homesteading #permaculture #permies #meshtadel #rabbit #rabbitcolony #selfsovereignty #homegrown
Expensive vet visit for our homestead guardian dog
When I harvest rabbits, I give the heads and guts to our karakachan homestead guardian dog. This helps to supplement her food/nutrition. My thinking was that this rabbit byproduct would be best used as food for the dog vs giving it to the chickens or composting it. The dog loves the treat usually scarfs it right down. Unfortunately, we had to take her to the vet a few days after feeding her these rabbit parts. She was acting sluggish and vomiting. I thought maybe she had some bones or a rabbit tooth bothering her. To our surprise, the X-rays revealed she had swallowed the entire rabbit head whole. Thankfully the vet was able to get her to vomit up the head but not without an expensive bill. Similar to my mistake freezing the maple sap reverse osmosis filter, one mishap can erase much of the efficiency gains from aspects of a system all at once. However, the work the dog does far outweighs what we would have to do without her to protect the homestead from predators so I'm glad we were able to get her back into good health even though we had to let go of some sats to do it.
#homesteading #permaculture #permies #karakachan #livestockguardiandog #lsd #dog
I've got 116 taps this year and can go up to 250 next year. I think once I scale up next year I'll have to build some sort of wood fired boiler. It's been interesting learning about where the biggest efficiency gains can be found as I scale up. Last year I totally redesigned my strategy around which trees to tap and how I went about collecting. It ended up saving me tons of time. When I only had 30 taps, the collection process didn't seem that important.