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Low Pressure Pneumatic Grid project

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Commenced:	01/08/2012
Submitted:	19/10/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	69 Schofield place , Victoria, British Columbia , CA
Website:	https://www.youtube.com/user/gaiatechnician
Climate zone:	Semi Arid

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Low Pressure Pneumatic Grid project

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Urban, Residential, School Projects, Demonstration, Educational

Project Summary

Produce low pressure air from renewable sources, distributing it in pipes and using it in "airlift pumps" to pump water around "pallet Gardens" Other uses too. Testing and improving every aspect of the pneumatic grid, bit by bit and all at the same time.

Project Description

I started the project on August 11th 2012 with one pallet garden which had continuous cycling of water by an airlift pump. I took apart a pallet and rebuilt it as a box with plastic on bottom and soil inside. A slight slope let water drain into a bucket that was dug into the ground. Water cycled around and the idea is to keep the soil wet and oxygenated and keep the water moving so that the oxygen heat and waste products are all moving too. The air was supplied by an aquarium bubble pump and as I built up and tested the system, I added another pump to produce about 3 liters per minute of air at just under 1 psi and this was able to run up to 8 pallet gardens. Last spring in my greenhouse I tried using the airlift to move heat in a big way with the "dripwall delta" In my case I just let water drip down the back material to collect heat and down the bottom of the inclined planter, there was no tubes in the bottom.

I got the earliest peas in Victoria with that method.

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