Published on 12, July, 2020
I've been running one of those cheap chinese diesel heaters for a while now, (this is year three) to keep my garage warm in the winter and keep the damp out.
It works out at 5P a kilowatt hour if you run it off the correct fuel, (red diesel, apparently available form some BP garages) but I already had laid up a stock of kerosene form back when it was 70P a litre, so I was already ahead of the game even before I discovered that you can run the thing off used motor oil, thinned down with either kerosene, stale petrol or diesel...
***SAFETY WARNING*** Do not do this without a great deal more research. Mine made scary noises when being asked to run at full chat whilst swallowing a more experimental fuel at 03:45AM, and I've shut it down pending an investigation tomorrow.. I'm fairly sure that's why there are so many alterable combustion parameters, but this IS both experimental and "frowned upon by the sensible and well adjusted" activity for good reason.
In ecological terms burning waste oil in one of these isn't so bad as it is effectively a little forced air furnace, although like anything else where the government does not take a huge cut, it is frowned upon.
If you haven't gathered by now, our leaders have great plans for humanity, involving the likes of you and me owning nothing, eating insects and being the carbon (((they))) want to reduce.
Making the basics like heat and food as expensive as possible initially, then later dependent on your "social credit score", is part of the plan, so don;t expect fuel costs to ever noramalise.
Petrol went up to £1 a litre about when oil went to 100$ a barrel, but now oil is price fixed at 60$, did YOU see the price go down??
Being able to surreptiously burn practically any inflammable liquid for heat for 100 quid gives you a bit of respite from the evil clowns who currently direct the course of human events. We've added solar cells and a feed in invertor to reduce our electric bills, plus are controlling consumption more carefully, and I believe that the extra heat being introduce to our house by my alternative heat sources, will cause the Central heating to run at reduced duty cycle.
Electric is 35P per kilowatt hour, Gas is similar these heaters run at 5P a kilowatt hour, or half that if you run 50/50 waste oil/diesel mix. The stale petrol and waste oil I just scored, mixed, and started using this week costs me NOTHING per kilowatt hour...
I'm working on a system to scavenge heat from the exhaust With a surplus car EGR heat exchanger (10 quid from ebay) and convert it into electricity using a load of peltier elements so I can get rid of the charger.
(I bought a second spare heater this year, by way of an insurance policy, when they were ridiculously cheap (75 quid)
NEXT up SOLID FUEL...
I'm desperate for plumbing information if there are any "proper" plumbers out there, as I want to learn how to implement a gravity fed boiler radiator combo, and I also really, really, want to know if I can safely insert a pre-heater into my central heating circuit ahead of my combi boiler. I'm thinking of using a surplus diesel "block heater" as fitted to many cars found in scrapyards, which then means I can pre feed the boiler water that has had some heat already added by means of burning waste oil and solvent rather than american Compressed Natural Gas.
When (if) we get our table top fusion reactor self running, then the problem will be solved for quite a LONG time, but for now, this is as good as it gets in terms of "free energy"...
The system failed us, but we mustn't fail ourselves.
I was the one who drank the IT Kool-Aid, while those who Studied Engineering won the Lottery of Life.
The Empire preaches Isolationism; while practicing Exceptionalism.
I'm slowly, but surely, getting out of 'Learned Helplessness'. Too long riding pillion, while life passed me by.
However, I'm above ground. The Lord isn't finished with me; yet.
My neighbour has a generator; if push comes to shove, she may teach me how to use it. Again, the Teacher appears when the Students are ready.
Throughout my life, I sought approval; people-pleasing. I was a rat, claiming to do good. But Zaccheus sought to pay back what he plundered four-fold.
I was always told to do I.T. but chose radio, then did I.T...
I wanted to be a Radio DJ, as a kid. But was pushed from pillar to post by Careers Teachers.
I didn't have a mentor, in my teenage years, with my father killed in the Troubles when I was 10.
We were punished for having ambition. While the Dregs of our society ended up getting the upper hand.
The Underclass were allowed to outbreed us, until they could outvote us. That's why Democracy failed us.
Life in, Northern Ireland, Peacetime simply toed the line of everywhere else. Nationalists are Woke, to the Nth Degree, while Unionists try to Ape America; at every given opportunity. We no longer have sovereignty.
I always wanted to be a commercial pilot, flying freight or firefighting. Reality and careers teachers thwarted those ambitions initially then skintness and autism played a part in my failure to get it all done, but I gave it 30 years of trying before I acknowledged defeat, and managed to get a Private pilot licence 140 hours or so of flying done and six years of aircraft engineering in first, so I can't complain that anyone "put me off" I just did not have what was required to achieve that dream. Someone FINALLY took pity on me in 2016, but by then I'd put in my thirty years, was realistically to old to ever be employed as a commerical pilot, too skint to be a PPL in my own aeroplane, (and too much of a dickhead to trust myself flying other peoples), so it really was time to let go, and do something else.
I then did drones, until that became simply too much hassle and red tape to keep doing.