Notices by Jan Koekepan (jankoekepan@freehold.earth), page 7

@Verus Check out whispergen.

@Verus Yeah, properly designed, stationary power ones are a lot more friendly.

@Verus Stirlings are pretty quiet. Comparable with a fridge. Add some rock wool and you'll never hear them.

@Verus Solar's great in environments where you aren't shaded by 100 foot trees, have high humidity, high particulate air counts with low angle sun.

It's kind of OK in the pacific northwest, but if you're going to have a furnace anyway ...

@Verus They work well with a high delta-T, and if you have the hot side in a chimney right over a wood fire, and the cold side outside, you're still looking at hundreds of degrees Kelvin difference.

@Verus You could even incorporate a stirling engine in the system for electricity generation.

@Verus I had an insight about houses: they're largely energy management devices. One could build a house with a long chimney and airflow such as to make best use of it.

@Verus Now if only my house had wood heat, I'd be set for Winter.

@Verus My only friend is the comealong. Two tons of pulling power, dragging it over.

@Verus All in all, my primary problem was very careful placement. I had about a 20 degree safe arc for felling it. Anything else would have wrecked something important.

@Verus This is why I never get to go to the cool parties. I smell of sweat.

OK, and manure. But lots of sweat.

@Verus Well, it's down now. Mostly saw work, just a little axe. Speaking of which, I need to sharpen my axe again.

@Verus A two foot cross-section standing dead douglas fir might want a little more.

@Verus Yes, but I wouldn't do so in the Summer, and it would freak out my livestock.

Mind you, I could drill a hole in the trunk and fill it with tannerite ...

@Verus Besides, you get used to the mauve hair manga. Eventually even the tentacles don't bother you.

@Verus Hey, no sweat. Glad you're finding an online home.

@Verus Yes, but hard work. Oh well. My crosscut saw is three feet of german steel. It's a good one.

I also used cable, chain and comealong to get the tree leaning in the right direction, because it was a bit porcupine-damaged. Double trunk.

@Verus Respectively, sweaty and dry. The dry part is normal. It's July. I try to avoid sweatiness without a reason, but the tree's position was threatening my winery, and I couldn't have that.

@Verus A propos of nothing, dropped a standing dead douglas fir today. Crosscut saw and axe - hard work, but I hate chainsaws.

@augustus Funny thing is, by this point that sort of stunt is so ordinary that it no longer shocks.

It's kind of cute, them trying to be all shocking with their behaviour, because they know how pedestrian their ideas are. They could have put all their outrage on a blog somewhere and people would yawn and click past.