you'll be able to find a lot of acro folks at center camp - generally starting around 10 in the morning . . .

I've used rebar staples for the last 4 years with no failures. I cut 3/8" rebar in to 2 foot lengths and use two 3 foot long sections of 3/4" steel pipe to bend them in half. I drive them into the playa at a 45 degree angle and use a crow bar to lever them out - real easy.

My first burn - my campmates and I put our bicycles on a "bike transport" trailer with about 20 other bikes. They never made it to the playa and we experienced Black Rock City on foot - not really a bad thing at all, but it did teach me a valuable lesson about self reliance.

These folks have had an awesome helium balloon project on the playa the last few years:

http://www.burningsquid.com/borg2prop.html

The entire thing, generator, cable reel and all we mounted to a small wagon that could be easily moved around.

I've purchased some things from here:

http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/

Fast delivery and no problems.

Sorry Devi - I don't recognize any of those folks - did you stop by our camp? Maybe you met El C, the Magpie or Abdullah?

I don't recall visiting that camp . . . some of them may have stopped by WTF though. I met a lot of people this year!

I was part of the WTF camp - what can I do for ya?

The 1500 GPH pump we used last year seemed to be perfectly matched to the size of the evaporator. El Commandante thinks a 1000 GPH pump would be almost as effective. The year before the camp used a smaller 2' diameter design that was not nearly as effective. I think some experimentation with this ba...

"Was this at a time when you had just taken some big shower(s)? It seems like a LOT of water... how many people are we talking?" We had 4 campmates and a few of our neighbors using it. We only ran it when it had a lot of water in it - it didn't run that often and at no where near its capacity. "Also...

Hardware cloth ! I knew chicken wire sounded wrong ! BTW, I believe the proper name for the wire material is "Hardware Cloth", not chicken wire, which has hexagonal "cells", not square, and the wire used in chicken wire is pathetically weak and could never support what's in the picture above. And, w...

You guessed it right! When the wind was strong - we didn"t run it because it would have soaked the neighbors.We did set it up on a tarp which kept the overspray we did have from creating a big mud muddle around the evaporator! when the wind kicked up did the evaporator soak your neighbors or get the...

We've had a little discussion about a wind driven pump for the evaporator - (I think the folks at Astral Headwash may have had some sort of wind driven thing going last year). Another thing we've considered is a wind driven generator that would charge a battery that would drive the pump. The difficu...

Pump size info from El Subcomandante: "The sump-pump in question is a marine grade, 4.8 amps. at 12 volts D.C. It is rated at 1500 gallons per hour at zero head. This is about right for this design, however a 1000 gph pump would work almost as well." The pump ran off battery power for a few hours a ...

I'll get the info on the pump size and power usage and post it back here. It was not a large pump.

That water is coming straight from the shower - we didn't do any filtering.

My camp has been using a very effective greywater evaporator for the last couple of years. We never had the need to evaporate more than 30 gallons a day - but it easily handled that load. http://glenn.easley.googlepages.com/grey-water-evaporator.jpg We used another small pump to move water from the ...

Was it these guys:

http://www.soulinthemachine.com/

I caught their show early in the week - they were a lot of fun!

Spectabillis - that's a great diagram - what are the cone like spray nozzles? Some sort of atomizer?

Dallas, are you just creating an "L" shaped wall or a box? How large/how many sections will it be? Are you covering both sides of the wall with plywood?

I was camped next to a big water slide this year - about 3:00 and Gestalt. They used scaffolding to hold the high end of the slide - made from what looked like sections of a cement shoot - and dumped it into a big pool. They didn't filter it and used water from one of the big water trucks. They shut...

Thanks Folks - just the info I was looking for!

Monday or Tuesday evening I saw a beautiful string of lights reaching up into the sky tethered from a balloon of some sort - all attached to a little wagon. The creator wasn't around to talk with - does anyone know who made this great installation? I'd love to talk to them!