I know him, how cool, he used to come in where I worked(auto parts store in Miller that went out of business) He had an old brown ford pick-up that ran partially on hydrogen. I liked him a lot, really smart man using common scrap and such to recycle and re-use in another way.
It IS harsh for Britain as we are not prepared for that.
Our local authorities refuse to invest, they claim its abnormal weather.,
Problem is, it seems to be happening quite a lot, more or less EVERY year!
The British can handle the cold, but the councils never order enough GRIT or SALT so our road networks collapse.Britain at its best, penny-pinching gets top priority! We pay extortionate Taxes and get bugger-all in return! PETROL £1.50 a Ltr.
good design. my buddy just recently bought himself a waste oil heater for his repair shop and paid $10,000, i dont know how many BTU it is but i know that shop gets pretty hot
1) The carbon that's released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels contributes in a small way to global warming whereas using waste vegetable oil is considered "carbon neutral" because the plants which produced that oil extracted their carbon from the atmosphere in that year.
2) burning used motor oil can add traces of mercury, tin and copper in the exhaust gasses which are toxic. Industrial burners have sophisticated scrubbers which clean out those toxins.
It's true you can have a complete burn (balanced stoichiometry) BUT it will produce CO2. You do need some kind of exhaust if you use it in any enclosed area.
@dieselscience You mean CO, CO2 is carbon dioxide, CO is Carbon Monoxide, CO is lethal, we animals exhale CO2. But you are totally correct about the need for exhaust in an enclosed area!
@apples13able No, CO2 comes from stoichiometric reactions (often called 'complete combustion.') With hydrocarbon fuels, CO is NEVER produced in a stoichiometric burn.
@dieselscience Well does such a burner always create complete combustion? If that were true then it wouldn't be as important to pipe the exhaust outside. Doesn't a nat gas or propane kitchen stove (with a turned blue flame) produce near complete combustion? ie. mostly CO2, H2O probably minute amounts of CO? Rocket Mass Heaters might be capable of stoichiometric reactions once they are burning hot. But my woodgas campstove w a strong blower still creates a lot of CO. Wood is hydrocarbon, no?
I know him, how cool, he used to come in where I worked(auto parts store in Miller that went out of business) He had an old brown ford pick-up that ran partially on hydrogen. I liked him a lot, really smart man using common scrap and such to recycle and re-use in another way.
03SSMontecarlo 1 month ago
It IS harsh for Britain as we are not prepared for that.
Our local authorities refuse to invest, they claim its abnormal weather.,
Problem is, it seems to be happening quite a lot, more or less EVERY year!
The British can handle the cold, but the councils never order enough GRIT or SALT so our road networks collapse.Britain at its best, penny-pinching gets top priority! We pay extortionate Taxes and get bugger-all in return! PETROL £1.50 a Ltr.
Time our Government bust open the biscuit tin!
Autotechmechanics 2 months ago
cool
I just read an article saying Britian is going to experience a harsh winter -20c
canada normally see's -40c winters
ill318 4 months ago
Pretty cool
nathanabaker 5 months ago
I like this guy, he's willing to have a go.
And he's had a win.
ozzirt 7 months ago
THIS is how real people do their work.....CHEAP. If you can burn it...someone else figured it out a LONNNNG time ago. I like that stove.
TheCaptainSlappy 1 year ago
good design. my buddy just recently bought himself a waste oil heater for his repair shop and paid $10,000, i dont know how many BTU it is but i know that shop gets pretty hot
hawkdlb06 1 year ago
There are two concerns here:
1) The carbon that's released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels contributes in a small way to global warming whereas using waste vegetable oil is considered "carbon neutral" because the plants which produced that oil extracted their carbon from the atmosphere in that year.
2) burning used motor oil can add traces of mercury, tin and copper in the exhaust gasses which are toxic. Industrial burners have sophisticated scrubbers which clean out those toxins.
neverchk 2 years ago
....having said all that, I still want to build one for myself.
neverchk 2 years ago
@neverchk Some say oil is abiotic.
jeremiahsineiii 6 months ago
co2 is right, make sure your pipe goes outside!!
chuckluvs35 2 years ago
Must get pretty hot to create that chalky powder out of oil, literally disintegrates it.
Taino187 2 years ago
It's true you can have a complete burn (balanced stoichiometry) BUT it will produce CO2. You do need some kind of exhaust if you use it in any enclosed area.
dieselscience 3 years ago
@dieselscience You mean CO, CO2 is carbon dioxide, CO is Carbon Monoxide, CO is lethal, we animals exhale CO2. But you are totally correct about the need for exhaust in an enclosed area!
apples13able 4 weeks ago
@apples13able No, CO2 comes from stoichiometric reactions (often called 'complete combustion.') With hydrocarbon fuels, CO is NEVER produced in a stoichiometric burn.
dieselscience 3 weeks ago
@dieselscience Well does such a burner always create complete combustion? If that were true then it wouldn't be as important to pipe the exhaust outside. Doesn't a nat gas or propane kitchen stove (with a turned blue flame) produce near complete combustion? ie. mostly CO2, H2O probably minute amounts of CO? Rocket Mass Heaters might be capable of stoichiometric reactions once they are burning hot. But my woodgas campstove w a strong blower still creates a lot of CO. Wood is hydrocarbon, no?
apples13able 3 weeks ago