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Alcohol Still
Ethanol is produced from starch-based grains, including corn, barley, grass straw and fast growing poplar trees, and is a replacement or additive for gasoline. Ethanol is made using a process called fermentation.
Biodiesel Powered Bus
Biodiesel, a clean burning, renewable diesel fuel substitute or additive, can be made from oil-seed crops, animal fat or [...]
From http://www.hydrodelta.com/:
Horizontal Loop GSHP
Anyone who has a refrigerator
or air conditioner is already familiar with the operation of a geothermal heat pump. Contrary to common belief, cold is not something that is produced, but is a condition that results when heat has been removed. If you remember your high school [...]
Charris Ford (aka the Granola Ayatollah of Canola)
My passion for all things Eco started when I was 18 in the hills of Tennessee, where I spent ten years running the family’s Organic farm, living with solar power, harvesting rainwater, chopping wood and hauling spring water. I have lived “off grid” [...]
Moonrise
Photographer Colin Prior, who took this photograph says: I am fascinated by the fleeting nature of the optical phenomena I observe outdoors, such as rainbows, the Aurora borealis (northern lights) or an eclipse.
During my time in wild places, I have been privileged to witness some great rarities — including a white rainbow, the Earth [...]
Don McGrath’s Sparrow
Welcome to the new age of Greener vehicles.
Time was, electric vehicles were promoted as the zero emissions saviours of the future, but the distance they could travel before recharging, and long recharge times led searchers to the hybrid vehicle, combining the advantages of a quiet, zero-emissions electric motor, with the range extending [...]
MicroHydro Generator
If your homestead can take advantage of water sources to produce electricity, then you have come to the right place. Here are the ins and outs of water-powered electrical production, from the microhydro web site. The link at the end takes you to the site for more info.
Water poweris as old as civilization [...]
Al Rutan and his tabletop digester
The production of natural gas (CH4) occurs everywhere in nature – in swamps, bogs, coal mines, land fills and in the guts of warm blooded mammals. In fact, it occurs anyplace where organic matter is present and air is excluded.
It is this same vapor gas that the utility companies market. [...]
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