Author: Jon Los
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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,…
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The Summer Kitchen
There was a place where anyone who was cast off from society, who found themselves on the shit end of the stick, who were looking for a closer relationship with God, or who just needed a place to unwind, could land and just go ahhhhh…. It was like stepping back in time, oh a hundred…
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“Free” Electricity
When the power goes out, I call me. After a unusually warm winter so far, we are having a bit of a cold snap. And with it comes frazil ice and the plugging up of my coanda screen, which stops the water from flowing through the penstock, which stops the turbine and the water to…