Author: Jon Los
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The Ministry of The Problem
Once upon a time, there was a problem. It was a big problem to the people who were bothered by it.So, a few of the people took their problem to the government, hoping for them to fix it. A meeting was scheduled and there was hope that the problem would soon be rectified. As the…
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Why Fight It If You Don’t Have To
The other day I posted about the upcoming overnight deep freeze and how it was going to force me to stay up all night scraping frazil ice off the intake. So what did I do? I threw a piece of plywood over the Coanda screen to stop the water from getting into the penstock, and…
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The Summer Kitchen
A little history…In 1996 I landed on the side of a mountain in Southwest BC, not by choice but by circumstance, like pretty much everyone else up there. The one thing we had in common was that life had thrown us all a curveball. Some were Christians, some were running from their past, and some…
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The Calm Before The Storm
One of the many little challenges of micro-hydro is dealing with nature. When everything is humming right along, you don’t even think about it, but, when the forecast is for -8C overnight, suddenly it becomes the only thing. We had an “atmospheric river” that blasted through here a couple of years ago, and I’m still…