heat of the earth is not that far away. But if we pump heat out what are the long term consiquences.

http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/home/heating_cooling/geothermal.html

consiquences....

Water Vapor is a top greenhouse gas! We need closed systems.

http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EAE03/11488/EAE03-A-11488.pdf

Here is a great series of slides
http://geothermal.marin.org/GEOpresentation/sld116.htm

Summer was great. I worked on the Farm and at the airport. Mary and I just finished the last of the potatoes. The shalet sprouted but the garlic is still good. It was hard work though. Now I know the labor involved in food production.

Green Power Science

I recently found a homemade production of videos on YouTube called Green Energy Science. The host, Dan Rojas, is hilarious He shows how to make some really cool things anyone could do with a little effort. It is refreshing to meet someone willing to make there own projects and share the info. We seem to always see a final result of someones labors and then are left at that, just left in the dark. Thanks Dan for making green energy not as distant as it seems. Now we need some stuff that will work here in overcast Seattle :)

Check out
http://www.greenpowerscience.com/

Grass Farming

The idea of grass farming was coined in New Zealand. The sun and the animals and the farmer coordinate a symbiotic reltionship that is mutually beneficial. I am in the process of securing my first copy of "The Stockman Grass Farmer" magazine.

Heat is good.

I recently picked up a book about a solar house in Martha's Vinyard on what was Solviva Farm. The house was Passivley solar heated. Even in zero degree weather the house stayed a warm 70 more or less with it's green house style and water walls to retain heat.
We never get that cold in Washington but heating is important. At 612 N Forest we hardly turned on the heat to save heating bills. This turned dangerous not because it was to cold, which it was, but because the moisture never left and we ended up with black mold everywhere. We keep the heat up in our apprtment now and the bathroom fan on. What a waste of energy:(. But we don't get as sick and the apartment has never smelld of mold:). It is heathy to have a watm place to live. So we have a small but meaningfull dilemma. In the move to energy independence I need to find ways to use solar heat to heat water and heat houses. This is actually a vary old forgitten idea....