Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Garage door issue.

Here we see further indications of our seals not being complete on this door.  Paul and I went on to design and fabricate some seals to fix this.   In the process of installing, I lifted on the garage door manually causing enough slack in the cables to allow the whole thing to go SPROING.  We figured about that time that we were barking up the wrong tree trying to make our own door with custom mechanics.  We will soon be testing our next idea of buying a professional door and adding a significant amount of quilting to the inside.

Hugnet for methane tanks

Jeff is installing Hugnet sensors on the anaerobic digester tanks.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Greenhouse heat

Dave is hooking up the air manifold that will help temper the
greenhouse on the cob cottage. When the sun is overheating the air, the hottest air will be blown through tubes under the floor. At night, the massive warm floor will keep the greenhouse warmer.

Arc08 progress

Ryan is placing three tanks that will become the methane digester. If all goes well, it will provide cooking fuel while cleaning our sewage.