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Pakrat
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As for waste products, there are environmentally friendly ways of breaking it down that could be designed with houses, so that you end up with a small amount of compost for the gardens.
They use no water, so are efficient too.
Many of the idea we used could be based on self sufficiency, but not to a degree that would make life a struggle, nor that would deter holiday makers.
http://www.ekolet.com/ekolet-eng/index.htm
There are composting toilets that hardly smell at all. I've seen them in national parks over here and they are really good. So maybe they would be an option for disposing of waste.
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| 06-02-2007 12:04 PM |
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RE: What is the advantage of an island...
This i fun reading. 
I live on an island, named Moster, with a population of about 1100.
In the same region, there's an islands named Espeveær, whitout road connection, that has a population of about 170 people, (in the summer). The whole region has about 1000 islands.
And by the way..
In a town or city, you could easily blend in and hide in the "masses".
In a small village or at a small island, EVERYBODY knows everything about you. you have NO private life. It's actually too intimate.
..and your chance to be attacked by vikings multiply hundreds of times. He, he..
I'm perfectly insane!
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My English isn't perfect, and I have allot to learn.
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| 06-08-2007 10:48 PM |
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I have an idea about drinking water that I have had running in my head for two days now. It would use solor energy to remove salt(and other impurities for that matter) from seawater. it easier to explain visually than verbally.
Ah, but you would need to account for entropy, as well. Entropy is the minute amount of energy that is lost, and unaccounted for in every conversion of energy to another form. For example, if heat is used to create steam is used to drive a generator, which in turn creates electricity to run a pump to pump more seawater, then some of the energy is lost at each stage. You would have to add energy from some outside source for the pump.
Energy is an important consideration if you live near the Carribean like I do. These are actually energy-use intensive environments, meaning that you have to add considerable fertilizer for agriculture, and put a lot of money into desal. plants.
Galieano Island, or Saturna Island in the Vancouver Islands would be a much more suitable location since there is a long growing season, plenty of moisture, and a moderate climate.
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| 06-09-2007 06:34 AM |
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Mjølner
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I have an idea about drinking water that I have had running in my head for two days now. It would use solor energy to remove salt(and other impurities for that matter) from seawater. it easier to explain visually than verbally.
Ah, but you would need to account for entropy, as well. Entropy is the minute amount of energy that is lost, and unaccounted for in every conversion of energy to another form. For example, if heat is used to create steam is used to drive a generator, which in turn creates electricity to run a pump to pump more seawater, then some of the energy is lost at each stage. You would have to add energy from some outside source for the pump...
Maybe from the steam pump perspective you would have to add energy from an outside source, but I don't believe that would be necessary.
If an 1 m2 reflector gives 1 watt, then I believe a 2 m2 reflector under the same conditions gives 2 watt. The question here is more how small and efficient is it possible to make this construction?!
I'm perfectly insane!
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My English isn't perfect, and I have allot to learn.
(If you like to comment wrong spellings, use of words and grammatics in my posts, you are welcome to to do this on PM).
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| 06-09-2007 01:16 PM |
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RE: What is the advantage of an island...
What is the advantage of an island over simply purchasing a large portion of mainland?
Fine, get an island *and* a large portion of mainland. Islands are extremely cool, in case you haven't noticed.
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| 06-13-2007 06:13 AM |
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You summed it up with isolation, while buying a tract of land on the mainland would be nice, it's only a stepping stone to true isolation. (If isolation wasn't an issue then we could all just live in other countries).
How much of the USA have you seen for yourself? You want isolation? You can get 100% landlocked isolation in the USA. It is still possible to find places that are completely off the grid within the continental USA.
Hundreds of miles of hundreds of miles of nothing but land. No people, no roads, no nothing. We still have that in various locales.
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