"In this video I take you on a detailed walk through of my off grid cabin at Off Grid Acres. I got so many questions from the first walk through video that I wanted to show you where we are now and talk a little bit about what our future plans are from here."
Even though I try to avoid making much trash, kids I recycle my bottles and cans like a good little boy. Plus glass and metal doesn't burn, and I don't like burning too much plastic when I'm up in the woods. I can recycle paper and carboard locally too, so I do that at the recycling dumpsters at the Elm Avenue Park and Ride.
"It's spring time at the cabin. We got hit with four nor'easters late in the winter which delayed spring by several weeks. Ice and snow are starting to melt and it's time to clean out the drainage and get some firewood cut."
This is probably the more wasteful LED-based night light ever invented.
It actually uses more power when the light is switch off by the photo cell rather then on. And it uses big-fat 1-watt resistors to limit the current flow to the LEDs, producing upwards of 2-watts of heat, whenever is plugged in. Capacitive droppers are bad news, but resistive droppers are even worse, especially when your using 240 volt electricity with them.
The moral of this story: don't build electronics like this unless your goal is to burn more coal. It doesn't matter if it's only taking a few watts of power, you shouldn't go out of the way to design things as energy inefficient as possible.
"1960's 45 recording produced for Albany-based radio station WPTR."
"In the archives of Yale University, there's a 367-year-old bond from the water authority of Lekdijk Bovendams, in the Netherlands. And it's still paying inte..."
Had to throw on my brakes when a deer started to cross out on Rensselaerville Turnpike (NY 443) outside of Rensselaerville.