Subject: [Homestead] Tvo post- Many URL's on homestead topics- Oct 2000
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:14:19 -0700
This post is almost 6 years old.... seems like 2000 was just here!
When I'm going thru these old posts I don't associate anything
without "19" in front of the date as old <g>-
Rob
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:34:13 -0400
From: tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT roanoke.infi.net>
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Subject: Many URl's on homestead topics, alternative technology organizations
Most of this I've probably posted before. I've forgotten about it and
relying on the law of probability, you have too.
So sit up straight in that chair and take your medicine.
Subject:
Re: producer gas
Date:
Wed, 24 May 2000 21:36:36 -0400
From:
tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT roanoke.infi.net>
To:
Keith Addison <keith AT journeytoforever.org>
References:
1 , 2 , 3
>
> Tvo, do you have a source for this paper? "THE GAS PRODUCER - SCIENCE
> AND CONSTRUCTION"
And some URL's I was working on a while back and had to save due to a
thunderstorm threatening to kill the power supply and delete the URL's.
You
will find many relating to biomass, particularly India which is the
foremost
user of small-scale biomass gasification, hundreds of thousands of 3 to
6
cubic meter household sewage gasifiers, and gasifiers for livestock
manure
(two cows' manure produce enough methane to run the cookstove for a
family of
four)---and many villages now have electricity from biomass, which would
never
be connected to the main power grid in their lifetimes and beyond.
operation, produces gas, fertilizer sludge, and electricity from diesels
running on biogas
http://vlink.vita.org/publications/pubcat.htm (VITA publications
catalot---make your own chain link fence, other small businesses,
digital and
packet radio communication, three cubic meter, continuous feed biogas
plants,
charcoal in 55 gal drums, fresnel diffused focal spot solar cooker,
solar
still, waterwheel, hydraulic ram pumps, a river-generator, low cost
autofeathering windmill, savonius battery charger, DIY flour mill,
simple
pumps, chain, diaphragm, Spangler, inertia, order the $95 CDROM covering
all
books)
http://www.the-week.com/99jan10/biz1.htm (Computers revolutionizing
India
agriculture---speed of electron rather than one foot in front of the
other on
the slow walk to sugar mill et. al)
bootstrap small manufacturing businesses, ferrocement biogas systems
under
Renewable Energy and Appropriate Techmology links)
http://www.smithfam.com/news/feb00aa.html (A facet of Small is
Beautiful as
relates to starting small businesses to avoid evils of huge
multinationals---if you are going to be an employee, employ yourself,
pay
yourself the fifty percent someone else would, plus the other fifty
percent
your work produces)