The steampunk device in the title image is a model 4-cylinder Stirling engine. Developed in 1816 by Robert Stirling, the Stirling engine was an early competitor to the steam engine. The Stirling engine is almost a unicorn. It is a near perfect and reversible Carnot cycle engine. This means that, theoretically, a Stirling engine could …
Grid farming is our primary growing method and the first research effort by the Balanced Agriculture Initiative. Raised bed gardening is recorded as early as the 1700’s in France, and traditional agriculture methods include techniques for bed preparation, mulched beds…
Fiscal sponsorship is an efficient, cost-effective business model — nearly sixty years old — that enables you to launch your charitable or community program and start accepting tax exempt funding within days…
There are three essential and linearly dependent freedoms. Linearly dependent means that as human beings, we can achieve (or fail to achieve) one freedom because we possess (or fail to possess) another freedom. In other words, the higher freedoms cannot exist without the presence of the lower ones. A closer examination of the three freedoms shows that this relationship is also cyclical…
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