Light a fire with a baggie full of water

The idea is to make a type of ball that can focus the sun's light into a beam hot enough to start a fire.

Footings, beams, and floors

How to pour concrete footings








 How to attach a beam to a post




 




How to level a shed floor

Making space ships reuable

SpaceX Fairing-Snagging Ship Returns to Shore with Epic Catch (Photos) https://t.co/vjVQyymziZ

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) June 29, 2019

NASA announces mission to Saturnian moon Titan

It will launch in 2026.

Over the course of its initial 2.7-year mission exploring Titan, the dual-quadcopter will fly a combined total of more than 108 miles https://t.co/dAy6DWmEno via @SmithsonianMag

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) June 29, 2019

Screens for windows, doors

I'll want doors and windows on my buildings.  To allow free exchange of fresh air without the annoyance of flying insects, some screens will be desirable.  Here's how to make them.

It appears easy enough.   

Wood Stud Wall Framing

Another set of pointers on how to do this stuff.

no windows or doors:





window or door:

Six part video series: Building a shed

The shed he builds here looks very nice.  The instructions are quite detailed, so even a not so hot carpenter could put it together.

I'll refer to it in the future.  Best to have it up here and now.


Part 1:     The floor:





 Part 2:  The walls



 


 Part 3 :  Building and installing rafters



 


 Part 4: Installing sheet metal roof







 Part 5:   Installing a metal roll-up door







 Part 6:  Installing vinyl siding




 

New weedeater

The last go around was with a borrowed weedeater.   This weedeater is my very own.  Yay!

But it is not the same weedeater.  The last one was a Cadillac.  This one is a beaten up old jalopy model.  Actually, it is not old.  It is brand new.  But it is a cheap model.

Consequently, it has no electric cord.  Whaaaaaaaaaaaa??????

Yep. You gotta supply your own cord.  Maybe that is why it is cheap.

Haven't tried it out yet.  Just taken it out of the box.  Assembly is going to be easy.  Just a few screws.  Only need a phillips screwdriver.

It should help around here, or I have wasted my money.

Terrestrial Energy news

Comment:

Impressive.

If their production meets their public-relations efforts, these guys will be in the lead for commercializing molten-salt reactor technology.

Cheaper than coal, and for you carbon-free believers, it is carbon-free.

.@TerrestrialMSR is named as 1 of 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by @BillGateshttps://t.co/LUPIczIGrs@NukeInnovation@AdvancedNuclear

— Terrestrial Energy (@TerrestrialMSR) February 27, 2019

Thorcon news

Comment:

This appears to be crawling along much slower than I would have thought.

According to the article, the tech part is not the problem.  The problem is getting it funded.

Quant investor Gary Bergstrom is backing a plan to mass-produce small nuclear reactors that can be delivered by sea to smaller countries in need of power https://t.co/AoSa2hk2c6 via @technology

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) June 18, 2019