I’m an artist, designer, musician, builder, problem solver, perfectionist & slob (it’s complicated), family man, nature lover, research fanatic, shopaholic (I blame Amazon), and a thinker. I believe in clichés, puns, and pedantics. Sharing is caring. We need each other. Lets figure this out!
I hope that this site will be a constant work in progress. Many of the pages and posts on this site will start or have started as a collection of bookmarks, links, and snippets that I collected from other sites while researching an idea or project. I am a designer (RileyDesigns.com) and the web isn’t as tricky as it used to be.
It occurred to me that instead of creating text documents everywhere on my computer, mobile device, sketchpad, journal, and sticky notes…. I could create these info docs just as quickly as a blog post that I could share with everyone and access from anywhere, anytime. Most of my notes relate to online research or project ideas anyway.
This site is new! I’m hoping to get in a rhythm posting here. Enjoy, and please share freely. Nobody’s ideas are better than anyone else’s. Some just make more sense to some of us every once in a while.
Solar Heater / Furnace – Soda Cans? Passive? Aluminum Soda / Pop Can Solar Heater / Furnace Daniel Strohl got a whole bunch of people talking by posting details of his soda can garage heater: He made a second version that’s apparently much more effective but didn’t post many of the details in his […]
This article is an attempt to journal my experiments with adding thermal mass on and around my small woodstove in my 2-story, 2-car garage. This is my shop. This is where I play, build, tinker and wrench on things. It needs to be warm enough to be comfortable working when it’s below zero outside but […]
This is an excerpt for my own reference from a great post by Erica on Permies “The ‘smokeback after 1 hour’ problem often comes with stagnation in the barrel. This can be due to air leaks into the barrel (usually shows up fairly soon) or poor insulation around the heat riser. My guess is that […]
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