Meh, Ideally I would add pure oxygen line and burn plastic waste in this furnace :D So as much for how I want to be careful with fuel. I am against making house air tight. If anything, I want to make dedicated air intake from outside. Recuperation is cool and all, but I don't want to spend money on it. Maybe one day, I will experience how awesome it is and install it. And I am not sure if anybody would apreciate czech language (maybe other slavs). Would have to subtitle it and such. These videos are already lowest possible effort lol

That is very good question! Diesel is like 3X more energy dense and ~2X more efficient to combust assuming 95% efficiency. So I've got roughly 9 tons of wood, so to completely replace it, I would need 1.5t or 1750l of diesel. Current diesel price is $1.43 per liter or $5.41 per gallon (we stand for Ukraine tho). So it would cost me around $2500 to keep myself warm on diesel from gas station. With agricultural diesel, this would come out to $313,11, but you need to do some tax fraud to use it cheaply :D. There are special fuels designated for heat generation. These are also taxed and the tax is returned after consumption of the fuel. Overall price would be $986. I have skimmed some documents and it looks like you can declare consumption just by measuring fuel level and you don't need special heater with bloody certified and sealed metering. That is good, but you still need to do paperwork which I hate more than anything. I am mostly looking for system, that will be on standby for 99% of a time and requires minimum maintenance, so this could be it. Other option is natural gas, but that does cost me money to have it connected. And it's more guarded due to possibility of leaks and such. Will have to think about this...

@@IlusysSystems Yeeoutch! I thought $3.89/gal was a lot. Here's to the government; They always make sense, and always have our best interests at heart.

Yeah, the fan would work. Especially if you could force air to go inbetween radiator plates. As for burning hot - it is difficult, when the stove is lined essentially by water, which is my point. I would not buy this stove if I knew how it is constructed, but well, there were no drawings available and I assumed manufacturers having some expertise in this field lol. Also It could be that my wood is bit wet. Guy that sold it said, that it has been in dry conditions for 5 years. So far I was burning hardwood, rest of the pile is softwood, which I have tried and it has produced even more sut :/ Also I need to read a bit on chimney fires, because I don't quite understand how exactly it can cause fire. Only way I see how that could happen is if ember from chimney somehow gets to the attic space which has bunch of dry hey(I need to get rid of it as well) in it. but this can happen even without chimney fire. Otherwise there is pretty much no flamable material touching the chimney itself.

@IlusysSystems Creosote has very low flashpoint around 82C but burns at 1000C, so it can nearly melt steel. It's a very dangerous fire risk.

@@nicholasboyarko1680 Sure, I would not let such fire go. I have checked pipe from the stove just now, there is about 2mm deposit, so I should clean it fairly soon. The chimney itself does not have any service openings and the shape is rectangular(and huge), so I won't be able to inspect nor clean it until next season (at which point it will be unused probably).

Thanks I guess. No, I have been just busy and doing mostly uninteresting stuff.

​@IlusysSystems you've been in my home, on the T.V so it's kinda like we're friends.. 😅

@@WhyTheFace_NZ Jokes on you, I was not! only my home has been in your home, I was on the other si.... Wait, how would this work?

@IlusysSystems you're right! I've been in your home and you've been herd from mine. 🤔

Eeeh I suspect, that this material is expensive for a reason. One thing is synthesis, which would be perhaps possible in home shop. But you will need strong pressure vessels, compressors, good vacuum pumps and inert gasses for flushing (TFE seems to form explosive oxides). This will yield a polymer powder/brick. The other thing is production of usable film / filament. This definitely requires a few square meters and industrial machinery like hydraulic presses, hot rollers, coating, stretching and drying machines to get usable product. Anyway, I have looked at some articles describing this technology. If you want to use it to generate power, it obviously have to create some updraft and then you need to extract power from it, which means, that you will form a restriction. My main concern would be, that you would not be able to restrict airflow enough to extract meaningful amount of power, due to material collapsing under pressure. This should be possible to calculate. Then also question would be whether there would be issues with water condensing as wet air would rises up. Honestly, to me photovoltaic technology looks like better deal. But I haven't done any meaningful amount of research on this topic.

Eh I can imagine that hapenning, but did not find any sources for that. Also the bonds would be ionic? I imagine the thing to be fairly reactive still. Does the product have a name? Also how does this help me with coating for table top? :D

@@IlusysSystems I guess u could coat a table with it, but in the form I made it its more of an oven bake plastacine. I could use it for the body of a robot/mannequin, and it can take hits from a hammer pretty well without breaking. but eventually if u keep hammering it more and more it eventually breaks.

@@IlusysSystems Its a metal containing polymer, and its rubberlike. There used to be flame thrower fuel made form aluminium powder and olive oil, called "gelatrol" its similar to that except you use ethyl citrate instead, and i use it to make a building product with, not the flame thrower ammo.

He is, indeed :)

Not yet. I am planning to make more research soon with HDDMA crosslinking agent and there is probably some filler involved too. But they likely use TPO as initiator with MMA monomer.

It is, I have built bunch of stuff with this setup. One limitation is, that electrolyte heats up, so after 1h of continuous runtime it is very hot. That means, that it needs regulation, which simple diac (like for drills) works well. I run this at ~1KW and can smelt 32mm diameter 2mm thick tubes just barely. 2kW would be better. But no need for storing gasses :)

Hollo professor

It's self aligning highly directional antena pointing at (usually) aricraft to maintain comms over large distance.

Yes, I have some videos here on that topic. I would probably go with bought linear rails now or at least don't make sliding elements with epoxy. Also would make spidle from thinner stainless steel. Since it was sitting in lab, it has been corroded quite badly...

@@IlusysSystems I know how that goes. SO much of my equipment is trashed. I started a company that did analysis for some of the large companies in early 200'0s. I made the decision to go back to school for my PhD in chemical engineering and everything either got broken or was out in the barn too close to the weather. I was able to save my HPLC as well as my Bucchi Rotovaps but I suppose everything else can be replaced. I am starting a gourmet and medicinal mushroom business with my best friend/partner in Delaware and I will be using the HPLC as well as extraction apparatus. At school I was friends with the glassblower that repaired all of the broken stuff that was worth repairing. He taught me a great deal but I probably forgot most of it. My specialty is organo-metal transition catalysts. It is easier to start my own company than to find a position where I would use my specialty. I was contributed research on Isoxaxoles for a chapter in the book the Pharmacotheon . From that I was lucky to meet and become friends with Sasha and Ann . I have some awesome stories......

Thanks for suggestions. I did try hypnotics about 10 years ago (Stilnox/Zolpidem, similar chemical), but the result was, that they did not help me sleep. Well actually, part of my brain did sleep, but other did not :D In other words I did hallucinate a bunch with loss of coordination. I am pretty sure I do enter REM though. Don't have EEG yet, but just aiming "night vision" camera at me during night shows patterns consistent with REM. Same with pulse oxymetry data. But definitely will have to confirm this. Recently I got blood glucose monitor, which shows lower than normal levels. One theory is, that paralysis could be due to that, but I am waiting for really bad ones to check. Also during autumn/winter I want to get off the nicotine. In any case, glass frit would probably work as membrane, but try shower curtain! You know, the densly woven one, not extruded plastic. You may be surprised how good it is :)

There are much worse ignition sources.

They allow for sloppy design. I did not have scope back then, and during development I burned bunch of mosfets. This caused arduino to die as well. So I just protected myself this way which allowed me to debug issues by trial and error.

@@IlusysSystems Aha! That was very smart. Thank you for the info.

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Probably better to use non toxic metal for this. I have used Cd, because the geometry was about right for me, since the transformer had super low power.

Ak myslis to davkovanie na HCl tak to je vlastna vyroba. Na SK neviem kde by som kupil, dnes sa da kupovat aj z ciny... v CZ kupujem z P-Lab, funchem alebo Verkon. Jedina vec je, ze su "kurva drahe", preto som to vyrabal (a minul este viac penazi :D) Piesok je z unihobby klasicky kremicity piesok. Napr na filtraciu do bazenov.

and the hold with copper

Well, so many things to do, but so little time... I want to do another part of "Will it polymerize?" series, but I really want to have kitchen line. Fuck the cabinets though. Srsly :) That said, I need to setup the lab... I need bunch of cabinets there.