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Would anyone happen to know how to dry/press flower petals for decorative purposes? Came across this yesterday and noticed that the purple was still vibrant (not brown and lifeless). I find it a bit difficult, because most organic material tend to rot. The environment here has also been very humid, with thick moisture.
Is that Statice? It's great for drying and preserving. The colors doesn't fade when dried. I heard people freeze dried flowers to preserve it. You could also press it in a book.
I had to look that up but yes, it looks like it. Your knowledge of botany is amazing. I love how statice comes in different colors. Have you grown them before?
Yes, I have grown statice before, a long time ago. I forgot if it is an annual or biennial. Thanks for conjuring up my memories. I might look for it and plant them again. I remember it had very deep solid colors.I remember pressing the cut flowers in a book to preserve them but I forgot which book. It's probably in a book that I never read, and it's lost forever.
I'm curious what the title of this book is.. @gaden, pressing his lovely flowers in a book. If you were a Disney princess you'd be Belle handsdown :P
I found this pretty upsetting considering how much volunteer work I've put in with environmental restoration projects around the bay. So much disbelief...http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/03/for-clean-energy-a-hazy-path-ahead-under-trump/
What are you working on for clean energy?
Right now? Just learning about and teaching others how photovoltaics work. Syncing it up into a power source and using for appliances have been pretty fun instead of relying on grid source.
You mean solar panels? Can you hookup some solar panels to my home trailer? Can it run all the appliances in that trailer?
Yep! Solar panels! Should be easy to do once you get a schematic going. I thought you were an electrician? C'mon @gaden, hook 'em up yourself. Don't be lazy
What?! How can I be a mini lord electrician when my slave won't do the work for me?I have a few solar panels but I don't have the right kind and size of batteries to power some of the appliances. I need at least 5,000W, mostly because of the AC. I've been using a big car battery but it doesn't last long.
Whoops. Can't help you there. I don't know know much about AC systems to understand specs and how much energy they require to run for more than several hours. Most homes here are not built with an AC.
I tink I'm going to eliminate the battery and get an in-grid inverter and connect the solar power directly to the grid. That way it should feed back some of the excess power. And you would always have power any moment without the sun.I see there are a lot of windmills in the SF area too. What are you guys doing? Stealing wind from other people?
Really? There's only like... 1? But yeah I suppose we could learn about renewable energy from the Dutch.