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Cutting heating costs and water heater
I am interested in building a waste oil wood burner or something that
would but my propane usage. I dont have a basement. I have an attached garage with acess to my crawl space. It has acess to my water heater too. Does anyone have any plans or ideas on building such a thing? |
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wrote: (clip) Does anyone have any plans or ideas on building such a thing? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Have you considered solar? |
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Cutting heating costs and water heater
On 19 Oct 2005 08:12:32 -0700, wrote:
I am interested in building a waste oil wood burner or something that would but my propane usage. I dont have a basement. I have an attached garage with acess to my crawl space. It has acess to my water heater too. Does anyone have any plans or ideas on building such a thing? http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_...earth/me4.html "Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules. Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner |
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Cutting heating costs and water heater
That would not work for inside a house though would it?
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Cutting heating costs and water heater
wrote in message oups.com... That would not work for inside a house though would it? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dunno which of the posts you meant to reply to, so I will assume it was mine-- solar water heater. The solar panels are placed on the roof. The rest of the system can be distributed where it will fit. I have two 80 gal holding tanks in the walk space under the house. Water comes from the main line to the holding tanks, and then to the gas-fired water heater. Any temperature rise the solar panels can create is that much less gas I have to use. |
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Cutting heating costs and water heater
I found a reference to using waste oil somewhere on the internet. The
specifics were in a book an pottery. I don't remember the name of the book off hand, but our local library had the book. If you can't google it up from that, let me know and I will find it. Dan |
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Cutting heating costs and water heater
I used to have that book. It was on building kilns. Instead of spraying the
oil they used a hot plate burner. The oil dripped on what became a red hot steel plate and vaporized. Might be three plates as that's what comes to mind. I used that book and my physics book to design and build and electric furnace to melt brass. It worked very well. Karl wrote in message oups.com... I found a reference to using waste oil somewhere on the internet. The specifics were in a book an pottery. I don't remember the name of the book off hand, but our local library had the book. If you can't google it up from that, let me know and I will find it. Dan |
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