Since the thread, which began May 2021, seems to have vanished, I wish to create a new one.
From Darkness to Light. 
1. I paid for a condensed tumble dryer, which I reserved on Tuesday; for delivery, tomorrow. Also paid for a three-year warranty. (In cash)
2. I made a poem, entitled 'Storm in a teacup', about the arrival of Agnes. (SEYMOUR!)
3. Bought more Farm-Fresh milk today.
1. I've recovered from my mystery illness (Maybe I finally caught Covid?)
2. Enough to ride my new (to me) motorcyle at last.
3. And I've fixed my chinese diesel heater without having to uninstall it. (Loose, maybe faulty glow plug, I swapped it out rather than try tigtening and testing it, as it was an "up a wobbly stepladder, perched over my motorcycle, with one foot on an already overloaded pile of plastic crates kinda deal" type work, and the potential for painful catastrophe outweighed the cost of a new glow plug to replace the one I just nicked out of my spare heater...
It burns whatever I can get my hands on. We are currenlty exploring the concept of filtration of the filthier fuels I have used in the past. Every so often the glow plugs crap out at a tenner a go, it's manageable.
I'm trying to find the two way fuel taps I bought a while back so I can set up a test rig that starts on kerosene stabilises with some metering of exhaust gas temperature and maybe some gas analayisis and perform some preliminary assessment of different fuels calorific output.
I've found that some fuels are really efficent in the low power settings but get a bit "bangy" when you try to up the fuel rate and airflow.
Ultimately the solution (when I can get my hands on one) is a micro gas turnbine, which managed properly wil produce vast amounts of useful electrical power and heat off pretty much any burnable liquid fuel...
When the war in Ukraine is over there should be a brief glut of surplus ex-milirtary micro turbines available in eastern europe, as a lot of the russian hardware uses them to power the hydraulic doohickeys used to lift the rocket tubes, move & power the radars etc. (It's way more fuel effciient that slaving all that stuff off the main engine).
It's actually cheaper now in England to power your house off a natural gas fuelled generator (especially if you can have a battery backup for load balancing purposes).
My G/F is strangely reluctant to let me do it...
But I do get way more heat for way less money heating my garage even off straight kero, than I do when using the 900 watt electric heater..
And when the barrels are full, I know the winter is taken care of. None of this monthly bills crap, I wait until it's hot outside and kero is as low as it's going to go then order a few hundred litres.
I really, really want to win a load of money and build a house with a solid fuel, an oil fired, and a gas fired set of boilers all on the same CH heating loop. I want solar cells with an adequate battery/supercapaitor backup and a natural gass genrator for the winter with a small income being derived by selling my surplus electricity back to the grid at a fair rate.
Until the device failed, my solar derived mains power was being fed craftily back into the ring main where it was seamlessly replacing unts which I would have otherwise purchased from the mains supplier at full price, a practice which is very much frowned on.
It burns whatever I can get my hands on. We are currenlty exploring the concept of filtration of the filthier fuels I have used in the past. Every so often the glow plugs crap out at a tenner a go, it's manageable.
I'm trying to find the two way fuel taps I bought a while back so I can set up a test rig that starts on kerosene stabilises with some metering of exhaust gas temperature and maybe some gas analayisis and perform some preliminary assessment of different fuels calorific output.
I've found that some fuels are really efficent in the low power settings but get a bit "bangy" when you try to up the fuel rate and airflow.
Ultimately the solution (when I can get my hands on one) is a micro gas turnbine, which managed properly wil produce vast amounts of useful electrical power and heat off pretty much any burnable liquid fuel...
When the war in Ukraine is over there should be a brief glut of surplus ex-milirtary micro turbines available in eastern europe, as a lot of the russian hardware uses them to power the hydraulic doohickeys used to lift the rocket tubes, move & power the radars etc. (It's way more fuel effciient that slaving all that stuff off the main engine).
It's actually cheaper now in England to power your house off a natural gas fuelled generator (especially if you can have a battery backup for load balancing purposes).
My G/F is strangely reluctant to let me do it...
But I do get way more heat for way less money heating my garage even off straight kero, than I do when using the 900 watt electric heater..
And when the barrels are full, I know the winter is taken care of. None of this monthly bills crap, I wait until it's hot outside and kero is as low as it's going to go then order a few hundred litres.
I really, really want to win a load of money and build a house with a solid fuel, an oil fired, and a gas fired set of boilers all on the same CH heating loop. I want solar cells with an adequate battery/supercapaitor backup and a natural gass genrator for the winter with a small income being derived by selling my surplus electricity back to the grid at a fair rate.
Until the device failed, my solar derived mains power was being fed craftily back into the ring main where it was seamlessly replacing unts which I would have otherwise purchased from the mains supplier at full price, a practice which is very much frowned on.
I see your super power! Engineer not afraid of a bit of elbow grease. Slayer of "Grid lock"!
As for the wish list.. I will tell Santa when I see him. I have a lookout for him at the moment with a list of my own!
Here we make so much Bio diesel that we export it. There is a wide broad tract that used to be dedicated to cane sugar, which used ghastly stuff that is still in the soil so it can't be used for food crops. When the sunflowers all bloom (they use the oil) it is so beautiful and I feel good about being the story of a place where we can do such things.
You must live where it is cold a lot!
