99 bottles of beer on the, err, 736 cans of beer on the roof...

So Dan has been working hard on getting our new solar kiln built and operational at his property, and I've done my best to help. And by help I of course mean drink his beer and eat food from his garden.

But in all seriousness, We have been working hard these past few days to get our new kiln up and running. The concept is quite simple, a sealed & insulated room where we stack the lumber and pump in heat (and sometimes steam) to condition and dry the wood using just the sun's energy to generate the heat. Dan found some great resources on line where people were building their heat collectors using aluminum cans! Dan and I don't need much of an incentive to drink a cold beer so it just seemed fitting that we build the "beer can kiln."

Special thanks to everyone over at Counterpoint in Golden Hill for saving cans as well because let's face it, 736 cans of beer is a lot of beer to drink for 2 guys, even in San Diego with micro beers galore. Here's some in progress pics (with more after the jump)

~ alex

(updated: I originally posted that it was 512 cans, but I didn't count an entire collector!)