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Preparing for the Solar Shower Experiment

on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 21:53

 

Today our second volunteer of the year, Jurjen went on with his journey, leaving Tribodar. We'll miss him.

I finished the greenhouse we were making next to our dry toilets, so we can vacate the space the temporary greenhouse was taking up, to start making our bathroom. Next weekend we will have an experimental workshop, in which we will assemble a solar water heater, or a couple of different models of them.

I have been reading about possible models, and I would like to try the following:

  • a panel with PE tube of ½ inch, connected to an old electric boiler, to store the hot water;

  • an old

A new volunteering season has started

on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 21:46

After a long winter without helpers, at last the new volunteering season has opened. We had a break to have time to dedicate to our newborn, Manu Inca, and because we had no good conditions for the helpers during winter (it gets quite cold here :) Now we hope we can keep Tribodar open for helpers all year through. This will require some extra infrastructure though. We need to finally get our permanent bathroom and a heatable space for helpers for winter. All this is planned for the summer though.

Our first helpers are really nice.