25 November 2007
Documentation
Guy Fawkes Night/ Bonfire Night | Primarily in the UK | 5th of November
Ballycraigy | Ballycraigy housing estate, Antrim, Northern Ireland | July 12th
Aggie Bonfire | Texas USA | Thanksgiving
Burning Man | Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA | American Labor Day - September
Fallas | Valencia, Spain | Saint Joseph's Day - 19 March
Daimonji | Kyto, Japan | August 16th
Lohri | India | January 13th
Sankthansaften | Scandinavia | Midsummer Eve - June 23
Samhain | Celtic nations – Europe | October the 31st/ November 1st
Hydro
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got my hands on a 1st edition 'Mother earth news Handbook of
Homemade Power' and I've been looking into ways to develop the
water wheel to power the UV lighting walls in the sanctum.
The first thing that stopped me in my tracks was the fact that 'You should never use a water wheel to make electricity you should use a turbine, this is a common misconception.'
So thats me. A commoner.
Turbines are smaller, a lot more efficient and in many ways are easier to install and maintain, the only draw back is purely personal and aesthetical reason: I wanted to have a big turning wheel as part of the architecture. This would expose the buildings function by wearing iit's mechanics on the outside.
So a turbine Hydro system will be a lot more low key and less obvious.
The first thing that stopped me in my tracks was the fact that 'You should never use a water wheel to make electricity you should use a turbine, this is a common misconception.'
So thats me. A commoner.
Turbines are smaller, a lot more efficient and in many ways are easier to install and maintain, the only draw back is purely personal and aesthetical reason: I wanted to have a big turning wheel as part of the architecture. This would expose the buildings function by wearing iit's mechanics on the outside.
So a turbine Hydro system will be a lot more low key and less obvious.
Apple Wire - Fykse farming tool
Throughout Fykse there are unique cable systems used by farmers to transport apples, hay and wood from the highland down to the lowland. There are are only a few in use these days, on walks I have found lots of old cable embedded in the ground.
One still in use.
