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  1. paul wheaton

    hugelkultur: raised garden beds that don't need irrigation

    Proof that it works! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sso4UWObxXg
  2. paul wheaton

    RMH uses EIGHT TIMES less wood to heat a house than a wood stove

    Check out this portable rocket mass heater. It is a wooden box filled with rocks: http://www.permies.com/t/2558/stoves/portable-rocket-mass-heater
  3. paul wheaton

    making the best of electric heat

    Actual electrical usage was logged. See the full article: http://www.richsoil.com/electric-heat.jsp
  4. paul wheaton

    a tour of four outhouses

    the fourth one is a piece of art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yZfO1VcP74
  5. paul wheaton

    replacing irrigation with permaculture - now on youtube

    Here is over two hours of me talking to 140 people in Oceanside, California about replacing irrigation with permaculture on my recent "Symphonies in Seed and Soil Tour". Probably my most popular presentation, now available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl0J2Upk5ww (warning, the...
  6. paul wheaton

    keep deer/voles off of your baby fruit trees with bone sauce

    I uploaded this video about four minutes ago. This is Sepp Holzer on his famous bone sauce. With this stuff, you don't need cages on your newly planted fruit trees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4xVKVc4NYQ
  7. paul wheaton

    Lard

    About two minutes ago I uploaded a video about hot to render lard. I included some time lapse stuff so you can see it go from fat to oil and cracklins. Then from oil to lard. The gal in the video talks about lots of ways she has rendered lard, and this is her favorite...
  8. paul wheaton

    RMH uses EIGHT TIMES less wood to heat a house than a wood stove

    Until they become more common, I suspect that an insurance company would say "no" to anything that they don't already understand.
  9. paul wheaton

    RMH uses EIGHT TIMES less wood to heat a house than a wood stove

    The book is $20 and is now pretty outdated. Ernie and Erica spent a huge gob of time creating detailed plans, but they are selling them, not giving them away. These are at www.permies.com/wood-burning-stoves.html The problem is that this is such a new thing, that "the best" is evolving...
  10. paul wheaton

    RMH uses EIGHT TIMES less wood to heat a house than a wood stove

    I posted this video about ten minutes ago. After building 700 rocket mass heaters, this is Ernie and Erica's latest. They are in the okanagan highlands where snow has been on the ground, non stop, for months. Two days earlier the temperature dropped to 19 below. They show how little wood is...
  11. paul wheaton

    2 winter chicken coop / shlters: one earth berm and one portable

    I found so much to object to just in your first sentence, I couldn't even read the rest of what you wrote. And now as I am reading this one sentence, there is just too much to object to about every other word. So I am going to limit my response to: predator? what predator? With a livestock...
  12. paul wheaton

    2 winter chicken coop / shlters: one earth berm and one portable

    Both add strategies to add warmth, and, thus, reduce the food needs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCyRNA4p3Xc
  13. paul wheaton

    land per person without external inputs

    This has been my most important video to put out for the last five months. But it required a LOT of editing. I whittled it down from 60 minutes to about 12. I went through several hardware failures and software failures and ended up starting over twice. And now the end still seems weird, but...
  14. paul wheaton

    Ducks - are they worth it?

    I made a video today that shows ducks eating slugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWTqHwnhn5k
  15. paul wheaton

    kickstarter farmer laboratory: CFLs at 30 seconds

    progress report: two CFLs are now dead. In response to a point that I seem to be having trouble making, I made this weird little story I call "Mr. Stinkypants and the CFL" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta2ozf_uJJ8 -- Sign up for my daily-ish email, or my devious plots for world...
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    RMH uses EIGHT TIMES less wood to heat a house than a wood stove

    I think most people like them much better in the winter. :)
  17. paul wheaton

    RMH uses EIGHT TIMES less wood to heat a house than a wood stove

    I just finished a major overhaul of my rocket mass heater article. Nine new drawings, one new animation showing the path of the fire/smoke/steam, new videos and twelve new pictures. http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
  18. paul wheaton

    making the best of electric heat

    I made this video in an attempt to sum up how I cut 87% off of my electric heat bill last febrary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJoXyBuxRw
  19. paul wheaton

    I was interviewed for a podcast

    Another one came out today. This time we talk about rocket mass heaters, cast iron cookware and CFLs: http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/paul-wheaton-on-cast-iron-cooking-cfls-and-rocket-mass-heating
  20. paul wheaton

    kickstarter farmer laboratory: CFLs at 30 seconds

    It's been up about an hour and it is already 26% funded. Wow. So I started making another video (lots of you have probably seen gobs of my videos), but the equipment I bought turned out to be lame. The good stuff is gonna cost more than I'm willing to spend. A bunch of people pushed me to...
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