This year’s mild winter has really made me think about the future of the ski industry in New England. Warm temperatures and lack of natural snowfall are threatening to shorten a season already slowed by the poor economy. Most mountains like to stay open as late into April as they can however just making it into early March this year will be a challenge. With snow making to stop at most mountains after next week you might want to get your spring skiing in sooner than later.
Digging for Water
The adage that we learn more from our failures than our successes holds true for many endeavors – from classes we take in school to entrepreneurial efforts we might undertake later on in life. The mistakes and failures teach us invaluable lessons which, in the case of a new product introduction, can make that product more reliable, easier to use, more efficient, or better in many ways.
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Foaming the storage tank
In this part of the world multiple days without heat in the winter can be life threatening. This, and the potential for frozen pipes, provide ample reason why insurance companies want to know the details of a home’s heating system, and it’s backup, before providing insurance.
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Hose
In his case, the heat source he wanted to use was his attic in the summer. He has a couple hundred feet of hose that he will coil in his attic and add a 3-way valve that lets him divert the well water to the attic hose and then into his tank whenever his attic is over 60 or 70F.
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Solar Fountain
This year a group of residents decided to investigate circulating the water with a pump, and using solar photovoltaics to provide the power — and stop wasting water.
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my garden
My family probably thinks I’ve gone off the deep end because I’ve made everyone of them look at my corn stalks and little green tomatoes. I can’t believe there is actually good food growing in my garden — and I planted almost all of it and weeded it myself.
Well, the rhubarb was already there and grew on its own. And grew and grew. We have had stewed rhubarb, rhubard crumble, and a couple of strawberry rhubarb pies. I have 3 more bags of rhubarb in the freezer. Ideas?
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SolarFest
There were lots of tents with vendors selling solar panels, wind and water turbines, geothermal systems, clothing, jewelry, food, lots of local goods, and there were a few people peddling their perpetual motion machines.
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Store flood
From what we understand there was no noise involved in this to wake anyone up, so the toilet simply continued to try to fill the tank… which continued pouring water into my store.
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Pond fountain
If we are using a solar panel to provide the electricity, then we start out with the requirement that the pump should run on DC (direct current), since solar panels provide DC output. You can use a solar panel to power a 110V AC pump, but that would require the added expense of an inverter to do the DC to AC conversion.
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