hot water & free HVAC

There is hot water and there is hot water, in two opposed-meanings. People, let me keep warning those of you, closer to age 30, by the averages, in this blog area.... Let me warn you to prepare well for your living needs. As our world is suddenly entering difficult times-- I offer here, two technical ways to deal with essential hot water. Also, don't ignore that warm climates face other problems obtaining like water at all-- Cold places can at least offer abundant, clean water. Get over it, that our leaders revel in scorched earth policies for all nations. (I'd like to dig up the prophesies of Ten Bulls who made dire predictions, at the time the buffalo were massacred to extinction. Just when dust bowl followed right after. Today when the solutions of deeper aquifer well pumps have finally drained ancient aquifers to rock bottom emptiness).

For just about 4 decades now, i've been on a self-sufficient mission. The current times seem to reward this past mission. I have always been low income, primarily because i would never succumb to mandatory dependencies, which various occupations more or less required. Instead great new jobs would last a while and refuel my (disciplined) money needs. Off again, i'd go, to working on my own self-sufficient systems again. Until some other small job could pay for more. My wife found better job prospects, besides, and we pieced together our self-sufficiernt-ish life style. Life commitments were important here.

One of her main requirements was nice, domestic, hot water. Two methods proved absolutely essential and critical for our happiness. One was solar. Here is the essence of my solar hot water findings--
http://harmoniouspalette.com/SolarWater/SimpleSolarWater.html

The other method used for 5 months in the winter, (for our colder northeastern climate), was firewood... We never spent more than small amounts on anything and were denied mortgage money, based on an imperfect deed, ('bad title'). We never bought into the fancy vacuum based solar collectors, largely because house heating by wood proved essential. Wood fired hot water takes no extra fuel, in that all this heat is ultimately house warming. Here is my best remedy for commoner wood heating--
http://harmoniouspalette.com/Furnaces/InsulatedFirebox.html

Much too late for us, we learned of the fascinating success of little known or published details of a 'self heating house'. Too late because my wife had already planted way too many shrubs and trees around our home, which could not be displaced for new tech... With many of my own technical solutions to render the tech affordable-- After much study of the subject, i posted these links---http://harmoniouspalette.com/CostFreeHVAC/RealyInsulatedLot/SelfSufficientHVAC.html . In short and fast forward... A professor in Montana wins a considerable grant during the late 1970s, to research and build such a system. His (potentially low cost) house project proves 'miraculous' in terms of free-HVAC: Decades of a steady 67ºf indoor temperature, with frigid Montana winters and blistering summers... 67º steady, no fuel or electricity needed for HVAC. It is in essence an insulated 'cave dwelling' domiciled with modern comforts. The accolades cannot be heaped enough while even the monied 'greens' appear unaware of the tech. Hmmm. Besides history also reveals parallels to the technology, all lost and forgotten, because of the 'bubble economies' (Falsified living technologies). Thanks to our common 'scorched earth era policies'.

I do love consciousness raising and believe that one's own mind itself deserves the needed exploration. Rather than dependiing too much on excessive substances to 'jump-start' it. I don't argue against 'jump-starts' but can say that once one has seen 'doors open up', (or what have you), that new explorations are more in the mind realm, more particularly. Excessive dependencies are even criticised by Castaneda's Don juan-- If i remember correctly. I loved that series when first published. yet to be fair and honest, that lovely described civilization fell into similar patterns of self-inhilation-- Like our own pursuit, of creating the seeds of our own destruction, (things like 'scorched earth policies' of our corporate-bullied State).

Take Care People!