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<\/a><\/p>\nThat\u2019s the only clue you get.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah, almost forgot the mystery photo:<\/p>\n
Ok, one more clue. They photo is from a follow-up project related to a video I did last month on monitoring air quality:<\/p>\n http:\/\/misterhouse.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/monitoring-air-quality.html<\/a><\/p>\n In people news, Aya had a fun and productive time on a business trip to Paris. This is a Skype call with her not not falling in love with a Frenchman, for which travel wary us are grateful:<\/p>\n We Ebayed Dad a nice only slightly used powered wheelchair from Texas. It has 4 different motorized chair adjustments, which Scott had our brave test pilot test out before delivering it to Dad:<\/p>\n This is another test pilot (son of some friends) getting flying instructions from Doggy. Not that Doggy has flow before, but he thinks he knows how to help out in any situation:<\/p>\n I tested out my telephoto on the 2 mile wide Kennecott copper mine, 30 miles away. They are still removing 100 million tons of slide rock\/dirt from 2013 slide, should be back in full operation in 2016:<\/p>\n Spring has sprung here already, so the Box Elder bugs are out in full force:<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been swatting them, and Bantik has been licking them. That gives him the power to climb walls and ceilings:<\/p>\n The object of that mystery photo came last week in these BoxHenge boxes:<\/p>\n Ten 18\u201d x 10\u2019 x 0.06\u201d fiberglass tubes, $280 each with shipping from NH. Each holds 132 gallons of water, so that is 1320 gallons total, which works out to be 5.5 tons! <\/p>\n It took me 1\/2 a day to fill them. That mystery photo is looking through 10\u2019 of water to the bottom of one of them. They idea is to use the water as a thermal mass heat battery to lower the night \u2013> day temperature swing we get on sunny days from the passive solar heat we get from all those south facing windows:<\/p>\n I\u2019m experimenting with different water dyes for better heat absorption:<\/p>\n I finally convinced Doggy that they were (relatively) safe \u2026 no leaks yet!<\/p>\n Plants on the south side, and a walking corridor on the north side:<\/p>\n I\u2019ve put 6 temperature sensor at various places in and out of the tubes, collecting the data here:<\/p>\n http:\/\/brucewinter.github.io\/plots\/temps_waterwall.html<\/a><\/p>\n Will do a more detailed how to post on that after I\u2019ve collected more data. <\/p>\n If anyone has a use for 4 10\u2019 foot boxes, let me know:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n