Think of it like Kilowatts and kilowatt hours. If you know what your heating system uses in a hour and how many hours it runs a day, week, month or season you can figure out how many BTU hours per time frame you need. The rest is just a matter of learning the conversion factors between the different units of measure.
Where I live it's not uncommon to hit -30F with wind chills to -50+F on a bad day or night which can push my peak BTU usage way past 1 million BTU hours a day then have a +30 F sunny calm day shortly after
That wide range of heat usage was one of my peeves with burning wood. On a bad day (when I really didn't want to be outside) I was loading the old wood burning boiler every 3 - 5 hours and on good ones twice just to keep the fire burning and the water up to temperature.
That's where determining the realistic value of having the system comes into play. How much will it cost you in time, labor and money to build and fine tune and use to where it's reliable and how much normal heating costs does that equate to. For me, where this sort of endeavor is worth $2000+ a year in offset costs, there's a lot of financial motivations to pursue it even if it takes a 200+ hours of learning and building plus a $2000+ to just get it all to a bare minimal working level the first year.
However at 1/10 that annual cost avoidance numbers it may not be worth it unless its more of a academic/hobby type knowledge and skill building experience. It may not pay for itself in cost avoidance in any short time frame but when you have a new set of knowledge and skills, that few others have, that can save you time and money elsewhere then it's well worth it!
Sorry i forgot to mention the gas stove thing, we also have electric in the house, but from Bombay-Brighton-Brisbane everyone kind of understand 4 stove gas burners, so its often used as a kind of 'leveler' so everyone is able to gauge the amount of gas. No good telling a Indian xm3 of gas day, they want to know how much cooking.
Plus you cant really say will run gas heating for X amount of time, heating systems are so different with number of radiators etc. 4-5 IBC's using our MKAD5 system (the current model we are replacing) with microbe cell to keep the sludge down, can take 6 acres of grass a week, all the waste from 12 sheep 3 people 2 dogs, and everything organic i can throw at it. It will easily run a 3 bedroom house around the clock heating wise if set up correctly.
Its easy to tune yourself into the system, but i will warn you against some the more recent patents, some are bogus for a reason.
But once your logged in you will understand whats going on in the industry at the moment.
That would get old real quick. We do have it pretty good here. I better stop complaining.
Good explanation. I rarely think about those sort of things so thoroughly ... or honestly perhaps. Now that you've pointed it out ... for me it's as much about the academic/hobby type knowledge and skill building ... and you're right ... it may not avoid a huge amount in cost ... but the knowledge and skills I pick up can be invaluable.
It's a bit like my work. Even though I did an apprenticeship as a radio tradesman and then plenty of post trade study ... when I went from fixing tvs and videos to this dairy equipment ... it was like doing a complete new apprenticeship. There's a lot of satisfaction in picking up new skills and doing stuff that other people can't do ... and even more in doing the stuff they say can't be done. As much an ego thing by the sounds of it.
Did it for ~ 12 years at an average of ~1200 - 1500 wooden shipping pallets a year once my easier to get to and work with local wood supplies started to wind down. Great winter time exercise even with proper tools and whatnot. A 12' electric chop saw with a demolition blade makes fast work of slicing up wood pallets but it still gets old after a while. (Oddly enough I kind of miss it now a bit now that I have more local wood to clean up and use again.)
Most people don't and it leads to much disappointment and too often hate when dealing with AE/RE type stuff. Unless you know what you are in for and what is actually needed to do something properly and efficiently the shiney 'save myself and the world cause I'm green!' concepts of AE/RE can wear off pretty damn fast.
That's pretty much been the story of my life. I have had a number of widely diversified jobs I picked up a uncommon number of skills and experiences with which at this point in my life makes me one of those guys that doesn't really have a limit to what he can do if so chosen to do it. Almost all of my work I do now is literally those 'impossible' jobs nobody else in their right mind will touch.
We made ours from a normal oil boiler and a tractor high pressure fuel pump with a pre warmer. Cost us maybe £600 all in, and that was including getting some mods done to the pump. Compare an American furnace to what is used in the UK, often a very different beast.I've gone over the info on your oil burner system again ... and looked up what is available here in Australia. There are very few players in the game over here ... but what I have seen is very expensive.
Sounds like a waste oil burner system might set you back $10,000 or $12,000 just for the boiler. They look pretty sophisticated and have a lot of features.
Their 'burner' is particularly impressive ... makes me wonder what they have in them that they seem to think is necessary ... over and above what you have.
They do mention various ones with 350 or 500 watt pre-heaters ... https://kroll-heaters.com.au/waste-oil-burners/waste-oil-burners/
I assume your boiler is open to atmosphere ... and not sealed.
I've gone over the info on your oil burner system again ... and looked up what is available here in Australia. There are very few players in the game over here ... but what I have seen is very expensive.
Sounds like a waste oil burner system might set you back $10,000 or $12,000 just for the boiler. They look pretty sophisticated and have a lot of features.
Their 'burner' is particularly impressive ... makes me wonder what they have in them that they seem to think is necessary ... over and above what you have.
They do mention various ones with 350 or 500 watt pre-heaters ... https://kroll-heaters.com.au/waste-oil-burners/waste-oil-burners/
I assume your boiler is open to atmosphere ... and not sealed.
Which is alittle different from morally acceptable, but sticking to legal limits is a good start point.is not terribly complicated or difficult, let alone actually illegal, to do.
Which is alittle different from morally acceptable, but sticking to legal limits is a good start point.
Okay, Whos more morally superior?
Belief systems A or B?
Skin color M or V?
Gender Q or Z?
Smart or dumb people?
Vegans or meat eaters?
Left handed or right handed people?
Totalitarian rule or Free market?
Liars with a good intentions or honest people who don't believe something matters?
See the moral problem of defining who is what and why? Its personal choice, biases and views based and nothing else.
Interesting choice, morally exceptable is causing no harm when possible.
Yes, And who is the authority on what is considered harmful to what and when by what standards? Nobody, because it's subjective and personal, not objective and impartial.
That's why you yourself can not define any of my examples as to which is morally superior and have no choice but to deflect the topic into something you can claim your own subjective moral superiority on.
They are subjectively ambiguous and undefinable from an impartial perspective. Just as your attempt to claim high ground ona barely relatable tangent rather than answer my questions.
Just because you personally feel strongly about something does not in fact always give you moral superiority on the subject. Especially when those claiming to have moral superiority have loads of examples showing anything but moral and ethical superiority in how they handle certain subjects (like deflecting the topic on any subjects they cannot factual answer without self incrimination. )
Hence my example of which is morally superior, "Liars with a good intentions or honest people who don't believe something matters" I knew full well where this was going to go.
Now you throw this back at me and claim the same, but from your perspective that it was you who knew where this was going.That or double down on the defection again rather than stick with the theme and direct topics of the thread.
(Also make sure shortbus gives me more dislikes and you more likes so that he can show his superior morals, or whatever the childish heck he thinks he has going against me now, with this new passive aggressive butthurt game of his.)
Okay, Whos more morally superior?
Belief systems A or B?
Skin color M or V?
Gender Q or Z?
Smart or dumb people?
Vegans or meat eaters?
Left handed or right handed people?
Totalitarian rule or Free market?
Liars with a good intentions or honest people who don't believe something matters?
See the moral problem of defining who is what and why? Its personal choice, biases and views based and nothing else.
Well like the example with copper sulphate, this is so well understood and excepted to be toxic environmentally, it often states so on the packet itself. As to who decides, i dont think it is an actual decision, i think its just excepted from data gathered. Otherwise why would it be on the label? Also it is heavily in the scientific literature. Again i muust stress copper sulphate in this instance is just an example of the conflict between legal and morally correct. The decision as to how to use it rests with the user, his/her own moral compass would decide.Yes, And who is the authority on what is considered harmful to what and when by what standards? Nobody, because it's subjective and personal, not objective and impartial.
I just gave an example that i believe explains the original point perfectly. As you can see there is no relationship to race or education level;That's why you yourself can not define any of my examples as to which is morally superior and have no choice but to deflect the topic into something you can claim your own subjective moral superiority on.
That is correct, which is why i stated staying legal was a good start. I didnt try and force my opinion on anything.Just because you personally feel strongly about something does not in fact always give you moral superiority on the subject.
You will have to explain this, i honestly cannot see how it fits any of the context of my original question.Hence my example of which is morally superior, "Liars with a good intentions or honest people who don't believe something matters"
No sorry i dont understand where any of this fits, i am not sure your even replying to me.Now you throw this back at me and claim the same, but from your perspective that it was you who knew where this was going.That or double down on the defection again rather than stick with the theme and direct topics of the thread.
That, Sir, should be your own conscious mind!Yes, And who is the authority on what is considered harmful to what and when by what standards?
What totally threw me was your reply
Well like the example with copper sulphate, this is so well understood and excepted to be toxic environmentally,
Can you explain where or how race or education etc etc etc, was relevant to what i said? If you actually understand my point now i have given an example of legal and moral conflict, do you agree or not?
One word answers to each question would be suffice and save much confusion, i find many of your longer posts irrelevant to what i have asked and some what of a personal complex ramble, which makes it difficult to understand your answer.
That, Sir, should be your own conscious mind!
Uneducated people can be forgiven for their unconscious ignorance, since they know no better, but persons such as yourself, who constantly remind us of how intelligent they are, are in a position to better evaluate the environmental impact of actions they choose to take.
We are informed, by yourself, that you are highly, even 'extremely' intelligent, probably more so than 99.999% of the rest of the forum membership.
In comparison to yourself, I'm as thick as pig-sh!t, but even a feeble-minded idiot troll such as myself knows that burning tyres in a home-made furnace is going to produce a crap-ton of polluting emissions, which would drift across neighboring properties and settle on their land.
If I were as wealthy as you claim to be, there would be no need for me to do this, since I could easily afford to utilize much cleaner/greener energy sources, unless I was such a cheapskate b*stard that I had absolutely no regard for my neighbors or the environment as a whole.
No copper sulphate is extremely toxic to aquatic life.Without exceeding the legally determined levels it is not considered toxic (Threshold limits) thusly making the claim that it is a moral superiority thing moot.
In any way shape or form, although i suspect you will try and obfuscate the point rather than concede you were in fact way off with your statement.Without exceeding the legally determined levels it is not considered toxic (Threshold limits) thusly making the claim that it is a moral superiority thing moot.
My moral superiority says that if it meets legal requirements its good and decent and that anyone pushing for unrealistically higher or whatever standards is after a likely morally questionable agenda that falls outside of defined law and good and reasonable public best interests.
IE, which goes along with all of my examples. Its undefinable as to which side is morally better (likely neither since we have laws to mitigate such nonsensical pseudo hierarchical definitions of others actions and rights) since both sides standards of moral superiority claim higher ground based entirely on subjective reasoning and views.
You think yours is more moral, due to subjective personal values the legal system does not recognize which by many peoples like myselfs moral views makes you an extremist of one of more questionable agendas and ties to factual reality. A moral stalemate and only one of us gets and accepts it as a fact of life and thusly does not push the issue as if there is something to win for it.
My moral actions and justifications are grounded in the laws as they stand based on scientific determinations. Yours are based on idealisms and nothing else and I would like to think that you know what history shows about the reality of idealists and their agendas.
My moral actions and justifications are grounded in the laws as they stand based on scientific determinations. Yours are based on idealisms and nothing else
And yet you provide no supporting evidence of any kind scientific or otherwise. I think that is known as a self retracted statement. especially when the next bit states.My moral actions and justifications are grounded in the laws as they stand based on scientific determinations
Yours are based on idealisms and nothing else
You think yours is more moral, due to subjective personal values the legal system does not recognize which by many peoples like myselfs moral views makes you an extremist of one of more questionable agendas and ties to factual reality.
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