Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Solar oven underway


Thought I'd try and throw together a solar cooker today. Without much planning or gathering of materials, I took some foil and covered the inside of the only box I could find, threw the window in front of it, and put the blackened dutch oven in there. Almost immediately after I put it in the sun at 10am, the temp was up to 140. It climbed to 200 and stayed there. I've got pinto beans cooking now...

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Design Mistakes in my cob house

So, I have long meant to create a list of mistakes I made when designing the finishings on our house.  Now that we've lived in it for a ...