Author: Jon Los
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Atmospheric Rivers Suck
No Dr. Nefario, you’re not going to win. Stupid physics… It’s one of those facts that water freezes when the temperature drops below that magic number. It’s 32° Fahrenheit, or 0° Celsius, and bloody frustrating when it happens to do it in your waterlines! Not to mention damaging as it expands in the pipes and…
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We’re Literally Hanging By A Thread
As I was driving beside a high tension powerline one evening, it dawned on me, our entire civilization is hanging by a thread. Entire cities have their electrical power supplied through these fragile threads called wires. Never mind an EMP pulse or a solar flare, all it would take to bring our civilization to a…
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The Richest Man In The World
No money, but I had God and a smoke. After landing in Tranquility Station, after losing everything, it could have been the worst time of my life. But it turned into the best time because there I was, building a treehouse, living completely by faith, and knowing what a privilege it all was. I have…
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The Big Spinney Thing
I was at a home Depot one afternoon and saw one of the orange bib guys on a forklift getting ready to drop a big wire spool into a dumpster. Seeing my new potential waterwheel, I asked him if I could have it, and he put it into the back of my pickup. It was…
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We Have Light!
So, after discovering the eddy brake, and being stuck without any solutions, the little waterwheel project just sat there, untouched for many months. I was pretty discouraged. We used to call the local landfill The Mall. It was amazing what kind of goodies we found there. We’d usually stop by on the way to town,…