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Ever built a steam engine?
Astro:
I have often times kicked around the idea.
Came across this video awhile back and it stirred my interest in it again.
ttps://youtu.be/Sp8FMqgc5Io
I can not post links so you will have to add an h to the front of it.
hiker:
Blast from the past,,Dan b the guy that started this site ,,built a variety of gens,, https://otherpower.com/steamengine.html
Astro:
--- Quote from: hiker on October 03, 2021, 07:54:31 AM ---Blast from the past,,Dan b the guy that started this site ,,built a variety of gens,, https://otherpower.com/steamengine.html
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COOL!!!
I have never come across a steam engine, so I would have to build one. YIKES that sounds like a ton of work in just planning. Plus I would need a better class of friends with a little higher end machine shops.
But that does not mean I do not have thoughts about it all. :)
I like the idea of heating my shop for basically nothing and making electricity at the same time.
Which also makes me wonder why people are heating water for heat, with dump loads, when oil heats up more easy then water.
If I heat water with a dump load, I am going to do it in a small water heater that is in line before my house water heater. That reduces the load on my water heater. I have a gas water heater, but still. It takes 8.33 btu to heat a gallon of water 1 degree. So if I can raise the water temp going into my water heater by 3 degrees even, that is 24 btu I saved. My water heater is in the basement and while it is not a livable space, being dug into the ground it is almost always 60-65 degrees down there. So in theory and since I do not care if it 50 degrees down there if I first brought my water into a vessel of say copper or another heat conducting metal and just let it sit in the 60 degrees, it would warm up slightly anyway. Yes it would cool the room slightly, but again, idc, I do not go down there much anyway, except to service things down there once in awhile.
Anyway sorry for my rambling. But yes I would love to heat my shop in the winter while making electricity. That is the point to my thoughts on a steam engine.
JW:
my site has been hacked flashsteam.com but I can give access to it.
Heres a video
ACB R&D misc 2004 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5O7zYJE-GQ
ACB R&D 2005 PSTG3 (b50).mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H5NXdSM5g
ACB R&D 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZasy9XNbYU
Astro:
--- Quote from: JW on October 03, 2021, 07:24:01 PM ---my site has been hacked flashsteam.com but I can give access to it.
Heres a video
ACB R&D misc 2004 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5O7zYJE-GQ
ACB R&D 2005 PSTG3 (b50).mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H5NXdSM5g
ACB R&D 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZasy9XNbYU
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Awesome!!! That is cool.
I have a few things rolling around in my head. Well, I should say things that are 80% figured out.
One of them is this, if it takes 8 btu to heat a gallon of water, and I have a 3,000 plus gallon rain water cistern outside my back door. Why couldn't I take 1600 ft or so of irrigation pipe that comes in a roll. throw it down there. (weighted down if I need to or actually secured to the walls nice and neatly :) ;) ) Have the ends come into a big camping cooler I have. Hook up a 12v pump off a lawn sprayer. Fill the cooler with antifreeze/water. Run the return end of the pipe (after it comes up out of the cistern) through a car radiator from the junk yard with it's electric 12v fan. Put a speed controller (I already have most of this stuff) on the fan.
Ta da air conditioning in my shop. It would take 24,000 btu to raise 3000 gallons by 1 degree. However the cistern is 8 ft into the ground and is 8 ft in diameter. The ground temp is going to cool the water back down, so I think I would have far more then a 24.000 btu air conditioner for little of nothing in cost or bills.
Part of the reason I bought this house was because of that cistern, because I like to grow a garden anyway, but if I can use it to cool my shop a little, that is cool. literally.
As for heat, I have a few ideas. As you might have noticed I like to make things work for me in multiple ways, ( I like efficiency) so my heat ideas are no different and will take care of more then just heat.
My biggest problem with heat is that insurance companies can get a little blah blah blah about "home made" things that heat. But if I need to I will build a cinder block little tiny structure in my back yard and put it in there. It complicates getting the heat inside the shop or house, but not by much.
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