Home Heating Options for Rural Midwest Residents?
 

http://www.motherearthshopping.com/M...temNumber=1835

This build-it-yourself, outdoor furnace keeps the dirt, soot, smoke and firewood outside, where it belongs. Includes materials list and 29 pages of building instructions and diagrams.


Build an external liquid boiling "furnace hut", and subscribe to every
free trade magazine and religious or political fund raising mail scam
in existence. Burn what the mailman delivers and it will heat you even
in Minnesota.

I always knew junk mail was good for something!

You could also burn cardboard, household garbage, even ****ty
disposable diapers in such an apparatus if the heat was hot enough.

Bret Ludwig wrote:
http://www.motherearthshopping.com/M...temNumber=1835


This build-it-yourself, outdoor furnace keeps the dirt, soot, smoke and firewood outside, where it belongs. Includes materials list and 29 pages of building instructions and diagrams.



Build an external liquid boiling "furnace hut", and subscribe to every
free trade magazine and religious or political fund raising mail scam
in existence. Burn what the mailman delivers and it will heat you even
in Minnesota.

I always knew junk mail was good for something!

You could also burn cardboard, household garbage, even ****ty
disposable diapers in such an apparatus if the heat was hot enough.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homemadehahsawoodheaters/ is a discussion
group specific to the hahsa water heater.


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Steve Spence
Dir., Green Trust, http://www.green-trust.org
Contributing Editor, http://www.off-grid.net
http://www.rebelwolf.com/essn.html

after working in power plants..then being a pressure vessel inspector for a
couple decades...i sure hope everyone understands the danger
presented by hot water under pressure.

emovetoreply wrote:
after working in power plants..then being a pressure vessel inspector for a
couple decades...i sure hope everyone understands the danger
presented by hot water under pressure.

this is not a steam boiler, and all water heaters have
pressure/temperature relief valves. This isn't any more dangerous than
any other water heater.


--
Steve Spence
Dir., Green Trust, http://www.green-trust.org
Contributing Editor, http://www.off-grid.net
http://www.rebelwolf.com/essn.html

In article . com,
"Bret Ludwig" wrote:

You could also burn cardboard, household garbage, even ****ty
disposable diapers in such an apparatus if the heat was hot enough.

An ex-tenant left garbage containing disposable diapers. They did not
burn easily, even on a rack above/in a very hot fire.

Linda H.

Linda E. Hungerford wrote:

An ex-tenant left garbage containing disposable diapers. They did not
burn easily, even on a rack above/in a very hot fire.

Disposable diapers are intended to sequester carbon in landfills, where
they will persist for centuries without breaking down. Disposable
diapers are the biggest single force opposing global warming. As the
most effective carbon bank in the world, they may save the planet.

Larry Caldwell wrote:
Linda E. Hungerford wrote:


An ex-tenant left garbage containing disposable diapers. They did not
burn easily, even on a rack above/in a very hot fire.


Disposable diapers are intended to sequester carbon in landfills, where
they will persist for centuries without breaking down. Disposable
diapers are the biggest single force opposing global warming. As the
most effective carbon bank in the world, they may save the planet.

I feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that dirty
diapers will save the planet. Do we get a
super-hero with some feces on his chest to go with
that?

In article .com,
"Larry Caldwell" wrote:

Linda E. Hungerford wrote:

An ex-tenant left garbage containing disposable diapers. They did not
burn easily, even on a rack above/in a very hot fire.

Disposable diapers are intended to sequester carbon in landfills, where
they will persist for centuries without breaking down. Disposable
diapers are the biggest single force opposing global warming. As the
most effective carbon bank in the world, they may save the planet.

Huh??

Linda H.

SoCalMike wrote:

Steve Spence wrote:
wrote:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:47:54 -0700, in misc.consumers.frugal-living
SoCalMike
wrote:


wrote:

No minimum wage kid is going to put burning hot oil in any plastic
bottle ever.They certainly won't be paid to wait four hours or so for
it to cool off at the end of the night.

its not possible to change the oil first thing in the morning, when
its cool?



When it is solid?

It's not solid. It's liquid at room temperature.


depends on the oil. beef tallow and shortening will be solid, and
wouldnt make as good a biofuel as something more liquid.

Tallow and shortening aren't classes as "oil"...

Cooking oils are liquid (sorta' by definition) and certainly by
convenience...

Stormin Mormon wrote:

No, the oil congeals. Turns solid. Has to be drained and handled while hot.


Not most cooking oils...they're specifically designed to be liquid at
room temperature--otherwise, they'd be a pita to handle when new, not
just when used.

Stormin Mormon wrote:
No, the oil congeals. Turns solid. Has to be drained and handled while hot.

In article ,
Duane Bozarth wrote:
Not most cooking oils...they're specifically designed to be liquid at
room temperature--otherwise, they'd be a pita to handle when new, not
just when used.

Comeback #1: "No, no, you're supposed to put the bottle of oil in
the microwave before attempting to pour it into the fryer!"

Comeback #2: "But I thought everyone kept their rooms at -10 degrees
Fahrenheit!" (This assumes you fry in canola oil, which solidifies
around -18 to -20 degrees C. Peanut oil solidifies around 3 C or
38F, and thus may well solidify in an average refrigerator. See
the last table at http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html.)
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