Just spent almost two weeks without electricity in my home (which is a boat). Topping up phone and laptop here and there in cafes or in the car. On this particular boat that also meant no toilet and no running water. My only luxuries were candles and a wood fire.
Tonight everything is back on, and let me tell you: cherish every drop that comes out of your tap and every flush because billions of people still live like this.
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First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.
Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\
Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.
Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.
Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.
If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.
I'm going to be creating more erosion/flood control channels and infiltration pits today.
Water has been streaming down the path to our composting toilets then depositing silt up against the foundation of the community kitchen. redirecting that with a couple infiltration pits before exiting to cross the driveway further up from the kitchen then into the pre-existing channels.
the much bigger project will be creating a slightly draining swale around the far edge of our ceremony fireplace to prevent water from getting to and filling the pit.
Also need to figure out a way to keep water off another section of road that has never been a problem before, but has been seeing flows with the major rains we've received this year.
hmm. abnormal late night draws on camp's solar system. 470W average at 4am hour. 2-300W is typical even in daytime, with maybe 400W if multiple fridges and freezer were in an on duty cycle. It was down to 15F last night, and most of those freezers are in an unheated space.
Either the other residents had insomnia or maybe the starlink self-heater was running a lot.
Looks like 1.65" of rain so far. .5"/hr rates recently.
Power conservation efforts pretty good overall. Woke up to batteries at 85%. I'm splurging some now. Running the heat pump to get the overall air temp up. making coffee. gonna make some breakfast. By the time that's all done I'll be at 75%. and will switch back to propane heat only.
Camp's array is seeing 320W coming in, so I've probably got close to 200W. not terrible. If I can end the solar day above 66%, I'll be on track for lasting another 2 days of this without supplemental charging.
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