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in SW BC I have worked in the rain 90 days straight.
in alberta It is pretty dry. this is where I am living now. Rain would be nice for the forest fires we are having right now

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=p&ie=UTF8&ll=54.803653,-126.156693&spn=0.093203,0.219727&z=12

babine lake

So Seattle gets on average 942mm of precip each year.

Terrace on the other hand gets 1295mm.

Yikes! :)


At least everything is going to be really green there. And trees will grow fast. ...

don't move to terrace unless you love rain. Terrace makes seattle look like a desert

well I dusted off my old chemistry muscles. here we go.

1gal= 3.785kg water, water is 1/9 H by weight so there is 0.4205 Kg of H per gallon

H2= 143 MJ/Kg so there are 60.14 Mj per Kg.

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I haven't seen the missing, so I haven't seen the cabin that you are referring to but in my area historic cabins are typically chinked with split strips of cottonwood. I am told by oldtimers that it...

This would be an interesting way of ensuring a supply of fuel to heat your log cabin and wood to build fences and the like. This method can produce seven times the wood that a normal woodlot can...

from what I have read it is possible to have a stove that is too large. If the weather becomes considerably warmer than you anticipated when you fired, your house will be too warm, and if the...

has anyone heard of attaching an active solar system to the thermal mass of a wood fiered masonary heater. active water probably won't work due to the dangers of steam when you have a wood fire...

Ya, I have seen a composting system that was used to heat a greenhouse in Ontario. They transported waste scraps to thier property including spoiled hay, heated the greenhouse through the winter,...

man that is steep, I was looking at a high efficiency gas furnace this month and they wanted 6500 for it. with prices like that I am leaning towards having a conventional wood stove in my living...

If the company wants too much for a woodburning stove and you want to use wvo anyway why not put a conventional oil furnace and run it off wvo. just make sure that you can get your hands on the...

Unfortunately I noticed the the foundation on the last day I was working in in the area, and I will not likley be in the area any time in the near futu

Today I was working near an abandoned North West Mounted Police outpost that was built sometime near the end of the ninteenth century (prior to 1896).

I noticed that the builders had moved six...

This is a few years off yet but is somthing worth watching for if you live in a low wind area.

http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=6792

Anthracite is coal that has been compressed and heated by the earth into a metamorphic rock. Other types of coal have undergone less compression and are still considered sedimentary rocks. both...