Used vegetable oil as fuel
I run my 1998 Fry-Ace van on used chip oil sourced from a local Cafe, This video explains how I process the used oil and how it is stored and heated inside the car: click here to watch the video.
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Heating and cooling without electricity
Passive solar design incorporates interaction with the natural phenomenon occurring around us all the time. Tapping into that self perpetuating force is the smartest way to design a home. The convection engine draws the cool air through the earth in cooling tubes made of a conductive material like stainless steel. The hotter the temperature is in the front of the building, the more cool air is drawn through the cooling tubes and the cooler the back of the building becomes. In winter it is the opposite: the sun shines in through the North facing windows (southern hemisphere) and warms the inside. So electricity is not needed to run heaters or air conditioners and this means that more power is available for household appliances and other living requirements.
Zen and the art of tyre pounding
Tyre pounding is hard HARD WORK! After I pounded my third tyre in Guatemala I started thinking... couldn't we just use bricks? Feeling a little disenchanted with the whole "let's recycle 600 car tyres" idea I suddenly found myself standing next to Mr Mike Reynolds and he was... you guessed it! pounding a tyre. Racking my brains to come up with something nonchalant to say to the Man, I heard myself proclaim " I can't believe your'e still doing this shit". to which he replied " I don't wanna do anything else, this is all I wanna do" . Well! what could I say to that!? So I picked up a sledgehammer and continued pounding with my Faith restored. If you pound enough tyres it becomes a meditative experience... Car tyres, indigenous to our planet, misunderstood and very VERY underrated! Thank's to Mike Reynolds a solution to the billions of discarded tyres worldwide is slowly becoming realized and the people who are...