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Kevin Espiritu

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
616 total appearances

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Yeah, so the whole project was like this idea of how far can you take being so-called self-sufficient on like a standard urban lot?

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

So I've got chickens on the property.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I've got rainwater capture.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I've got gray water conversion.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

So taking like shower and laundry water and actually using that on the property instead of just-

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

It's redacted.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I hid it from Google Maps.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

No one can see it.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I got you guys.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

It is like semi-contaminated, hence the gray.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Because if you were going to use sink water, which is considered black water, you wouldn't use that.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

You're not really allowed to.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

So what I did is for my indoor shower and an outdoor shower that I have, I have a valve that I can turn.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

It's like a three-way valve.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

So I can either shunt the water to the city or I can go into, in my case, my orchard is where I send it because fruit trees need a lot of water.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Interesting.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

The only thing you have to do is change the detergents that you're using.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

So you can't use standard detergents.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Yeah, because I think it's just because of the different things that end up going down the sink ends up being not something.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Out of the sink, yes.