Permaculture Organic, Nutrient Dense, Smart Farming for Highest Health
Currently experimenting using low cost, heavy duty 100L storage bin that can be slid in/out for combost toilet bin swaps. Reducing ground clearance or pit depth needed. Multiple bins can be cheaply setup and stored away for extended periods when full. Better suited for low use toilets or holiday homes visited infrequently.
Continue reading “Compost Toilet Cassette”Comfrey: Symphytum officinale – L. : a PERENNIAL growing to 1.2 m (4ft) by 0.6 m (2ft in) at a fast rate. A versatile green manure.
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A waterless dry composting toilet is a water saving, safe, ethical, non-smell, non-wasting recycling, life giving, natural waste system. Fully treating human manure safely to produce plant fertiliser. 30,000 litres of water is saved per person, per year, compared to a flushing toilet. See related: Waste Systems post.
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Training and tour of Permaculture operations, including nursery grow out infrastructure, plants, aquaculture, livestock interactions.
Continue reading “Permaculture Operations Tour”Thermal Energy Storage – TES. Sand is cheap, readily available and can be used to store thermal energy at much higher temperatures upto 1000°c, compared to water limited at 100°c turning to steam. With sand slowly releasing that heat, as a thermal mass.
Continue reading “Battery: Sand Battery”A high humidity environment, such as near the coast, or in high rainfall regions, often needs low cost, simple, to silent or passive measures to keep humidity reduced in the home for comfort and health, discouraging mould.
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Solar hot water: is more efficient than heating water electrically. A large well insulated hot water storage tank is also one of the best storage batteries for heat/cold. This could be coupled with a thermal Sand Battery for longer heat storage/transfer.
Continue reading “Water Heating”Electricity generated from solar is either immediately used or stored for later use, during nights or on days in times of extended cloud cover, or when appliance peak loads need to consume larger currents all at once.
Continue reading “Battery: Electricity Storage”Passive home design (https://www.yourhome.gov.au/passive-design) is a design standard that achieves thermal comfort with minimal heating and cooling optimising energy use by:
Continue reading “Passive Home Design”AgOpenGPS started as an experiment by a farmer in Alberta Canada, Brian Tischler, to test some ideas he had for a DIY tractor autosteer.
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