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Kevin Espiritu

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
616 total appearances

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Not the faucet.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Rainwater off your roof, I think it's just captured rainwater.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I mean, the beauty of that is like the house I bought, it's like a thousand square feet.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

It's not big.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

So the roof is a thousand square feet.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

And I believe it's like an inch of water on a thousand square foot roof is 600 gallons, which is a crazy amount when you think about it, because an inch isn't that much rain.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

And so what I did is I built a system to pull that water off the roof, filter it, because you're going to get like particulate matter, you're going to get leaves and stuff like that.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Yeah, so it'll filter it.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

And then it goes under the ground to a huge cistern in my backyard.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Yeah, you can do it that way.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Or you can do like rain barrels off of certain areas.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Like I've got a shed that isn't connected to that roof system.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

So I've got a rain barrel on that shed.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Very nice.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

You can't send water back to the city.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

What I mean by that is like, let's say my laundry machine, which has a gray water system on it,

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

If I'm running, let's say a load of laundry that requires a detergent that I don't really want in the ground, then I'll just turn the valve and it'll send that water output to the city.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

In water, so I did the math.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I have it on our second YouTube channel where I kind of chronicled it over the years.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I put a bunch of solar on the roof.