Posted by Sandra in Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 21. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
I see in this blog’s “draft” section, the start of a post from Chris. I know we have both been feeling the pressure to post about this project in roughly the same way we posted about the Rocket Mass Heater.
Time has been….at a premium. If it wasn’t enough that we didn’t feel we had enough … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 11. Nov, 2011 | 2 Comments
Ed Beggs of Plant Drive sent us our WVO conversion kit last week. Kind of. The Greyhound depot in Barriere called to let us know it arrived so I drove into Barriere to pick it up. After signing for it, the gas station attendant couldn’t find it. I went into the back room and looked … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Earthship, WVO vehicle on 02. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
Yup, this is the name of the Subway sandwich our vegetarian daughter favours…but it seemed appropriate to how we are all feeling today. We are so pleased to have finally made the leap into our waste veggie oil vehicle, a 1994 Mitsubishi Delica 4WD Van.
The kids have been pestering Chris about our once every three … Read More →
Posted by Chris in Construction, Earthship on 09. Aug, 2011 | 2 Comments
Video of Construction Progress
We put together a video of our building progress sometime last year for a sustainability conference that we attended.
I came across it this evening while cleaning up our camera card. It is out of date in terms of our current progress, but shows lots of details.
Maybe we will try and update it … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Community, Earthship, Energy Solutions, rocket mass heater on 13. Mar, 2011 | 4 Comments
If you look above, you will see two buttons with “Store” on them. It’s one of our glitches that need to be fixed, but they both lead to our store where we are selling both the ebook on How to build a Rocket Mass Heater and the plans (the PDF version is sold separately, … Read More →
Posted by Chris in Community, Family on 23. Jan, 2012 | 2 Comments
I keep hoping to update the site with some photos of the trip … but it has not been as easy as I thought while travelling!
Here are a few pictures …in the next few days I will post a video of the map along with pics for each section.
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Posted by Sandra in Earthship on 23. Jan, 2012 | 2 Comments
I left Darfield with great intentions and a slew of items designed to help us minimize our waste on the road. I packed two tiffins for leftovers and packing lunches. We all had re-useable mugs and I also packed utensils and a few plates.
The trip across Canada was not too bad. When … Read More →
Posted by james in Earthship on 14. Jan, 2012 | 3 Comments
Last summer, I not only had the opportunity to work on an interesting building, I also was fortunate enough to work with an interesting family. As I’m sure you know, the Newtons are currently exploring the continental USA. I’m envious as I’ve always wanted to explore it more fully myself. For the meantime, I will … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Arduino, Technology, WVO vehicle on 11. Jan, 2012 | 1 Comment
Since leaving Darfield on December 16th we have been SO busy! It is now January 10th and we are in Orlando and I’m just finding time to think about posting. Part of it was the novelty of being on a true “vacation” again and not wanting to do much else. Another part of our slowness … Read More →
Posted by Sandra in Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 13. Dec, 2011 | No Comments
In all the excitement of getting the Delica outfitted to run on WVO, I completely forgot that we have had some discussion on this blog about transportation and the environment. It is with some smugness that I direct anybody who missed it the first time, here. Back in June 2010 I was lambasted in our … Read More →
Posted by Chris in Energy Solutions, WVO vehicle on 10. Dec, 2011 | No Comments
This is sort-of-like a Haynes shop manual of the WVO conversion …
This is what the L400 looked like after I first pulled it into the shop and popped the hood.
When I was working on the engine I removed the intercooler, the battery and the air filter. The intercooler has a number of electrical sensor lines … Read More →
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