Category: General

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,…

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…

One of the hardest things I had to face while building the motorhome was my friends who became envious of my good fortune. My good friend, Bill, actually said to me, “We can’t be friends anymore because you’re going to be rich”. That shocked me, and broke my heart.I never did have much self confidence.…

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…

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…