第2946期:Green logs provide green energy

I'd say that I was always a person that liked to tinker with stuff, tinker with Legos, so on and so forth.我是个喜欢修修补补的人，也喜欢拼乐高之类的。But it wasn't really until I got here to UVA, had access to the woodshop, that I realized that I really liked, you know, woodworking.但是我是来了弗吉尼亚大学之后，才开始接触木工活，然后才意识到我非常喜欢木工活。I've been just following the plans and the instructions that I found and that should hold up for a good while. These are a little, there you go. There's some 'shorties.'我一直都按照说明和指南进行拼装，这些应该能维持相当长一段时间。这里有一个小的，给你。这里有一些比较短的。This is about a year into an idea to try and make something out of the logs that are, you know, already coming down across campus and to mill some wood.大概是在一年前，我尝试用那些已经在校园里砍伐下来的原木做一些东西，然后把一些木材加工一下。All the insides of the kiln will be painted black, but the roof is clear. So, it's going to let the sunlight in and heat up that space a lot.窑内所有部分都将涂成黑色，但顶部是透明的。这样就可以让阳光照进来，增加窖内的温度。But at the same time, we need fans to be moving that heated and now more humid air.但同时，我们也需要风扇来吹动那些已经变热且更加潮湿的空气。So, we're actually going to have some solar panels out in the front and those will power the fans and push that hot air out and through vents in the doors.我们会在前面安装一些太阳能电池板，它们将为风扇供电，把热空气通过门上的通风口排出去。You get that power from the commercial kiln of really, kind of, 'cooking' the wood.你能从商用窖中获得能源，有点像“烤”木头，But you get that same kind of heat-and-cool cycle that you get with air drying outside. Alright, here are two more.但是这种冷热循环和在室外自然风干是一样的。好的，这里还有两个。She's been awesome. She's been a great support. And a lot of things, I think, she's pretty comfortable with.她一直很棒，帮了我很多。她对很多事情都得心应手。She actually also worked in the woodshop this last year while she was enrolled in a program here at the university.去年她在大学参加一个项目期间，就开始干木工活了。But before that she was, I think, a little bit on the edges of what all of this was.但是一开始她确实什么都不懂。But as I've just come home every day and been really excited about it and talked about what we're doing, I think she's gotten more comfortable with it all.但是每次回家的时候我都非常激动，还会聊起我们正在做的事情，然后慢慢地她也就熟练了。Yeah, she's been a great help here. Sure, I can come cut a piece. 她在这帮了大忙。当然，我可以来切一块。It's been a few weeks now and we've made some more progress.已经过了几个星期了，我们也取得了一些进展。We've got the outside coated with some good exterior paint and we've also got the roof on and a few coats of this black paint.我们把外面涂了很好的油漆，窖顶也已安装完毕，还刷了几层这种黑色涂料。And let me tell you, it sure is dang hot in here. All we've got left to do is to put some vents in the doors because the fans will be hanging down about here, right?这里面肯定非常热。我们要做的就是在门上放些通风口，因为风扇会挂在这里，对吧？And so those will suck air in and push it down and through the stack and that will vent out.这些风扇会把空气吸进来，然后向下推动空气，使其通过通风口，接着空气就会排出。You know, basically we'll get quite a few logs in here. They'll come up to, you know, about this height, right?这里我们也会装一些木头。大概这个高度，对吗？So, about waist-height and we'll stack those really nicely and we'll monitor those as they dry.堆到齐腰高就行，我们会把木头堆得整齐划一，看着它们晾干。In this kind of heat, we'll probably see a load of poplar, which you can dry pretty fast.在这种高温下，即便是一大堆白杨也可以立刻风干。We could probably get that out of here in five weeks, which would be great.我们可能会在五周之后完成，这样就太棒了。Yeah, hopefully we'll start munching through our good log pile here.希望可以好好利用这些原木。