Burning Man

[gfish]

So, it turns out I'll be going to Burning Man this year.

With my dad.

This is going to be interesting.

(I know at least a couple other of you out there are going. We should arrange some way to find each other.)

Comments

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Hey, not sure of our placement yet, but Kung Fu Sock Monkeys will be the camp. We'll hope to have Neon KungFu signs, a Kung Fu Sock Monkey Wind Sock and pneumatic sock monkey cannons.

You guys just doing a little two-man camp?

-B.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nothing too fancy. I'm planning on taking the forge, offer general smithing services (like bending over the top of rebar stakes). That will be fun. Looks like we'll have a very nice solar electric setup as well.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

I should pick your brains on the solar. I picked-up an el-cheapo solar panel for lighting (Harbor Freight, 45 watt system, sans battery, for $180 on sale). I need to figure-out the appropriate deep-cell battery to go with it.

I want to build a thermo-siphoning solar hot-water heater, but don't know that I'll have time to pull it off.

-B.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

A solar hot water heater should be pretty trivial in that environment. I'll just be taking the solar shower I bought for the Mackenzie trip.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Batch solar is pretty trivial. Doing anything more flexible will require a little plumbing. One of my campmates whines that solar shower setups are either scorching hot at the end of the day, or cold by morning shower time. I want to fix both those problems. So, panel (made of either coroplast or old fridge coil) thermosiphoning to a insulated reservior (beverage dispenser type thing).

-B.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

One of my big design goals is t eliminate (or mostly so) rebar from our camp. Or at least get the higher strength grade of rebar. Driving the bent-over rebar is a PITA, pulling also--campmate/leader says he loses a lot of rebar to bending, etc. every year. I was pondering doing some custom fabricated stakes out of aluminum, but might settle for some affordable commercial solutions at this point.

-B.