I will be focusing on open source ecology research and development, and
I don't have time to manage the online sites so I won't be checking for
friend requests or anything on facebook, MySpace, or the other sites. If anyone
wants to take over this task please send a message to jeremymaso at
gmail dot com.

Thank you!

Jeremy

I brought an Garmin emap GPS to e Farm and Jeremy collected 471 waypoints from the land here at OSGV I today.

I'm traveling to Utah to visit my folks, go to an ex-girlfriends Masters graduation ceremony, and visit a childhood friend. When I arrive back in New Mexico, I'll download those 471 waypoints so that everyone can see the topology, where the buildings and streams are.

 This will be about mid-May.

Several people have expressed an interest in donating to help buy a good first aid kit for Factor e Farm to upgrade our existing first aid supplies. Here are some of the specifications we think a kit should have, what do you think?

-suture

-forceps (hemostat?)

-hemostatic compund?

-medical tape

-maybe also these things, but we could just get them at the store: ACE bandage for sprains, hydrogen peroxide, medical honey for a fast wound healing disinfectant wound dressing?, etc?

-any other first aid supplies we should pick up in addition?

After Marcin told Molly and I to come back with another proposal about
cooking and sanitation facilities, I decided to do my due diligence
about the Factor E site. I needed to think clearly not about my dreams
of living at Factor e, but about the reality of the place.  I'd been
thinking about a total life change, after all. Shouldn't I give it a
thorough analysis?

So I reviewed my notes, pictures, and drawings of the site.  I
thought about what it was like working with Marcin at a distance, how I
was living and working on site, the opinions of others who have been to

Some time
ago i had a thought on how to make power from water. I saw a pelton
wheel that if i remember correct needed 150 psi of water (5 gal per
min)to make it turn 3500 rpm on a alternator. Now at that time i did
some research and found a water pump that would make 150 psi at 6gpm
that only used 60 amps to do so.
If your powering a 300 amp alternator wouldnt this enable free power?

Ok
and another angle i looked into. If i build a large tank of water say
10,000 gallons and at the very bottom had the proper nozzle to make 150

Is something wrong with the drupal database? Sam was going to try looking into it, any progress? I tried removing the related projects content field but it didn't fix the other forum threads. Sam said it was some kind of PHP error but the PHP error reporting is off on the DreamHost server, and I don't know how to turn it on. Does Vinay need to make that happen or can we fix it another way? Any ideas anyone?

I just posted a new post on "Starting up a european spinoff" and suddently i cant get acces, iv tried clearing my cache with no effect.

any chance whatever the problem is, that it can be fixed? ^_^

I have set up the website www.reprap-models.com which can be used for hosting of fabbing files.

 Earlier today i noticed that the website had been attacked by a hacker so for the moment being there is no index.html file in there, i will upload a temporary "will be back asap" website later today while the coder checks out the website to se whats been changed and hopefully we will get the website back online very soon.

I would be very interrested in starting somthing like factor e farm just in europe, we have two villages slightly like it already in my country, but non of them go as far as factor e farm, mostly its about dodging building costs by building your own house from natural things like straw clay and seashells (they'v managed to get some ok looking houses out of it, that have sofar withstood two storms breaking, they have however discovered that straw and seashells are not as effecient for insulation as they had first hoped, so their walls are fairly thick (or so iv read on their website)

here is Negligiblek's first experiment:

http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?title=Negligiblek%27s_Pyrolysis_Empiri...

discussion?

We have made a working prototype, see the wiki and yutube videos for more info.

Right now we are looking into getting a turnkey system. http://yellowheat.com/catalog has a complete turnkey for $2500 or just the burner for $1500.

We are also looking for people to help open source a babington burner design.

I'm not sure where to place this but i was watching an episode of "its not easy being green" (BBC2)