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Not only the compost system needed attention, so did our solar system. The batteries had lost half of their capacity, and had to be replaced. Here Hugh and Sara hoist an 1100 AH cell out of our "Pyramid Power System", one of 12. They were replaced by a gel-cell style of battery (Sungel), which is designed for solar systems.
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After five years, the Station's compost system needed some major attention! Here Rupert and Felix perform the slightly odorous job of emptying it out (to be spread on the forest floor). When we get enough funding; this accumulation compost system will be replaced by a batch compost system such as the one we have at the Bat House, which has proven to be a far more satisfactory design.
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| Kitchen Salsa Quartet: (left to right) Claire Gilby (UK), Sandy Hall (AU), Silvana Urtiaga (Argentina) and Mel McKay (San Jose, C.A.). Having fun whilst doing the pots!
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| Nobu (or more correctly Nobuyuki Watanabe), an Agricultural Science student from the University of Osaka, clearing grass as part of the regeneration project. Nobu was a very diligent regenerator and helped fix a large area, which had been damaged in the 1999 cyclone. Unfortunately, it was hard on him to demonstrate his Japanese cooking skills, so we never learned how to cook Japanese!
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