today is a good day to die
Yes. Yes I can take you higher.
that's true
Spring is trying to break through but winter is not giving up without a struggle. I'm staying warm by the fire for the most part, enjoying a relaxing Sunday, but since the sun came out I had to get outside and get some fresh air.
Love these icons.
Made some progress installing the siding on the "Fab Lab" (Trademark by nostr:npub1pvgcusxk7006hvtlyx555erhq8c5pk9svw57snlxujpkgnkup89sekdx8c 😁) this weekend. Slow going, but good to get out and build something as it was a beautiful weekend.
#grownostr #diy #woodworking #buildityourself
Looking great 👍
I make shirts that says as much
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For a second I thought one of your heroes was Frank Zappa. I suppose he probably had an FBI file as well
Coinbase crash confirms bull market
58k gang in shables
Sir that is a violation of HIPPA regulations and I demand you delete it
Gaia's garden is this first great permaculture book for me but it's generally aimed at smaller lots. Mark Shepard. I got a lot out of the edible acres YouTube channel a few years back.
Now that transaction fee storm has passed I'm back to heating my living space primarily with wood in a rocket mass heater instead of Asics.
https://v.nostr.build/Ee2K.mp4
Wood is burned in the small firebox and heat radiates from the barrel warming the space quickly while the fire burns.
As the exhaust gasses make their way to the chimney, they pass through ductwork in a plywood box filled with pea gravel.
The majority of the heat from the exhaust is transfered to the gravel before exiting up the chimney. By the time the gases exit the box, they are cool enough for me to put my hand on the chimney pipe.
After the fire burns out, the heat absorbed by the pea gravel slowly radiates out into the living space until the next fire is burned and the gravel is recharged with heat once again. I built this rocket mass heater for a fraction of the cost of a wood burning insert, with no special tools, materials, or skills.
It has been an unusually warm November and December here at the homestead. Normally we have to start burning wood in the rocket mass heater early November to stay comfortable but this year, the bitcoin mining dehydrator was enough to stay warm and do some food preservation simultaneously.
Transaction fees started climbing and I was shocked to see the most efficient miner I had approaching break even at my electric rate.
I didn't have the circuit to run it wired yet but this bump in fees was the motivation I needed to get the miner hashing. Coincidentally, the weather also started to get colder finally so getting the miner up and running was a win/win.
It successfully kept us and our guests warm through the holidays, even earning some Bitcoin beyond the cost of power at times, all while allowing us to save our firewood.
We did have to fire up the rocket mass heater a handful of times, but so far we've burned less than half the amount of wood compared to previous years. This is thanks to the combination of the warm weather, and high transaction fees allowing us to stay warm with heavily subsidized electric heat.
This might be the first winter we make it through with wood leftover for the next year, typically I'm scrounging for the last couple weeks.
#permaculture #permies #homesteading #selfsovereignty #meshtadel #rocketmassheater #woodburner #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #plebminer #rmh #grownostr
This is super cool. Never seen one with pea gravel before. Usually I just see the ones with cob around the pipes.
What size property and climate?
Just one more thing... bitcoin
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