Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
This time of year no heat and no AC operation. Fully charged by 10:30 AM. Maybe I should build a still and make some alternative fuel? Just nowhere to go with the excess.
Maybe I should build a still?
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Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
BothAlternative fuel for what?
Or who
Sparks-n-Splinters
New Member
Could build an electrolysis tank and pull the rust off old iron skillets,. Or pull the gold plating off cheap jewelry then reverse the tank polarity and gold plate your wrenches!
Aridom82
Learning addict
42OhmsPA
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Buy another minisplit, build an indoor greenhouse and start growing fruit to use in your still. 
pollenface
Solar Addict
water heating
bigger battery (for winter)
centrifuge waste motor oil (make black diesel for a generator)
EV charging
bigger battery (for winter)
centrifuge waste motor oil (make black diesel for a generator)
EV charging
Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
Already done, went heat pump water heater first week of March.
Already have Luyuan box here bringing total bank size to 74 Kwh.
My diesels are all common rail, there won't be any black diesel in them with the 25K psi in the fuel rail.
Don't need a generator, we used less than 3% of the yearly Kwh this past year from grid. Less than $5.
With added 14 Kwh in the Luyuan box, I'm wondering if the house will use any grid power this winter.
No EV here, just not quite the answer in Timbuktu, Iowa. It is some distance to anywhere with civilization and it gets to -30°F here in the winter.
I'd build a still before buying an EV at this point. I can "sample" the product. That would keep me warm when it is -30°F.
We added another 18K btu mini split this last month but too nice here in Iowa to get much use right now. Come June, it will be running full bore when the humidity kicks in.
Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
I need to buy 2 mini splits for the shop first. Want better efficiency than current units.Buy another minisplit, build an indoor greenhouse and start growing fruit to use in your still.
There is a video on Youtube where they are growing oranges in Nebraska in the middle of winter. Greenhouse uses ground tubes for heat at night.
Rednecktek
Solar Wizard
1: Build still for ethanol
2: Convert generator to run pure ethanol
3: Drink "leftovers" for doing a good job.
2: Convert generator to run pure ethanol
3: Drink "leftovers" for doing a good job.
Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
Ethanol not that hard. Make mash, let it ferment, distill off the alcohol and feed the wet distilled mash (distillers grain) to the hogs.
If you aren't drinking the product, you can just use a copper/brass radiator for condensing.
42OhmsPA
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Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
Pure ethanol in an engine will not start at -30°F. I guess one could use a block heater powered by solar.
I won't be posting much here with leftovers, all my rowdy friends will be coming over.
It is fuel ….it is…. AND it’s an antiseptic….what if you ran into an old solider on the hillside that had been shot with a musket …..you could do some in the field EMS work and save him..
That would be a noble cause …..she would be proud of ya…
Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
Stopped by a long time friends house a month ago and he was out of sipping whiskey he usually has around.
We went thru about 6 different old bottles he inherited or had given to him over the years. Some had cobwebs on them. I sampled each one, I drink it straight up.
Good thing my wife was driving home, I almost passed out 3 times on the way home. Went straight to bed I guess, woke up next morning with the same shirt on, no pants. Actually felt fine, of course it was about 8:30 pm when I crashed into bed.
Stopped by a few weeks ago again, told him some of that must have been used as antiseptic during the Civil War.
They say it doesn't age once in the bottle, I have to disagree.
Aridom82
Learning addict
Haaa it’s about 160 proof anyway …that’s stronger than the 70% alcohol at wallmart you buy for medicinal purposes.. but ya will need a belt to put in the soldiers mouth and help to hold ‘em down to operate on em..
I have drank similar things in my youth ….but my liver heart and brain is too old to do that anymore….. but it was funn…..reminds me of what we used to make what we drank in high school …….PJ….
Haaaa
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