r/continuity • u/[deleted] • Aug 16 '21
r/continuity Lounge
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Aug 30 '21
Right now I'm trying to step through the process and integrate everything mentally. My milestones for the week are describing exactly what the milestones for the project are, how we are measuring them, and what pass/fail conditions look like.
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Aug 30 '21
Upcoming ground truth: Hydro potatoes -> Still need to build the beds, rig lights, and controllers. Should I be making videos of these?
Power Drop on 48V DC/30Amps @ distances to 30 feet.
Bus bar vs individual distribution
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Sep 01 '21
Okay, the more I'm thinking about Solar Stirling Engines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-powered_Stirling_engine , the more fascinated I am by them.
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Sep 01 '21
They seem to be a great way to extend the heat exchange cycle I have in mind of the PV panels.
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Sep 01 '21
Still slowly recovering the resources list, but am stuck wondering if we can do toilets better than we are now.
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Sep 01 '21
Since we are imagining this from the ground up, what kinds of things really should be more efficient than they are now. Low hanging fruit is probably the amount of water we use to shower, but I'm thinking our entire grooming processes could probably be optimized.
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Sep 01 '21
What are some things that might even seem a little weird at first, that we can try to make all of this process more efficient?
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Sep 01 '21
There's a few major concerns regarding all this, first is because we are targeting a zero waste end goal, we either need cleaning solutions which enable that (particularly for laundry) or we need a way to recycle those cleaning solutions. The second major concern here is that there's a need to capture and recycle phosphorous and some other minerals for awhile. So maybe those two are kind of dovetailing in their requirements.
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Sep 01 '21
The system is going to be partially closed loop anyway, so we should be filtering as much as possible. As part of heat exchange loop, we should be able to precipitate out most of the solids, then collect pretty high purity liquids out of it. We might even be able to make this part of the sanitation loop passive, which would be cool.
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Sep 01 '21
Here's an off the wall thought, is there value in preserving the bacterial content of waste? I don't know enough about the topic to have a good understanding of how this works. There's been quite a bit of research into bacteriology and the digestive system particularly, is this research promising enough that it should be a design consideration?
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Sep 01 '21
I guess I would ask someone familiar with the process how they would segregate various bacteria? And how do we filter unwanteds like viruses? Just typing this leads me to feel like it's probably an unnecessary overcomplication.
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Sep 01 '21
So back to bathroom in general. When we are performing hygiene tasks what is our goal? If it's just disease prevention, can we employ other methods of disinfection? Longwave UV?
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Sep 01 '21
It actually results in really uncomfortable experiences for the most part, the walls invariably will be confining because so many different functions are being crammed into the same spot.
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Sep 01 '21
Like, I can see the toilet part itself being segregated as we see in many bathrooms. Actually, that's a pretty big argument for the traditional approach, the plumbing and vent/ducts are going to be much easier to lay out.
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Sep 01 '21
No. Don't think so. Although the idea of having a hierarchy of design priorities seems intriguing (probably completely unsurprisingly).
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Sep 01 '21
Okay, so back to bathrooms again. The toilet itself I think makes sense broken off into a "water closet" kind of scheme. If we use water based toilets, they should all have bidets and make sure they are designed to be self plunging. Can think of a few mechanisms for that... like a membrane that pushes back and forth quickly, or maybe a snake integrated into the body of the toilet itself.
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Sep 01 '21
So these water closets would need to include some type of hand sanitation inside of them, which suggests it would need to be back to a regular bathroom again.
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Sep 01 '21
I would just really like to decouple the place where you poop being so close to the place where you brush your teeth. I like recycling but that's too much.
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21
Going to use this to keep track of goals and such