new bike shed.

I see a pattern here.

I will do. one day. I've still got a wodging great stack of sawn up tree
trunks outside the house, waiting for said burner...

Are you *quite* sure you haven't built your shed over a national Grid
transformer?

 

I see a pattern here.

I will do. one day. I've still got a wodging great stack of sawn up tree
trunks outside the house, waiting for said burner...

Are you *quite* sure you haven't built your shed over a national Grid
transformer?

 

Stravinsky's suit?

 

Oh?

 

In communiqué <1jyeahn.tlpisa1evl2sxN%>,

Just had an email today advising the delivery date for the 8 x 12 shed
that will stand on the site of the old brick and timber greenhouse I
demolished. This will be the lad's bike shed dedicated to his
non-motorised velocipedes mostly of the MTB kind. This will prevent him
cluttering up the end of the garage with his bone shakers and cycle
maintenance stand (hangs them up by the seat tube so you can whirl the
rear wheel round and fiddle with the "rear mech" etc. Thus freeing up
more space for comfortable fettling of the SOB fleet. I have vowed not
to let the resulting vacuum perform the usual motorcycle materialisation
miracle.


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| Pete Fisher at Home: |
| Aprilia Shiver Yamaha WR250Z/Supermoto "Old Gimmer's Hillclimber" |
| Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 |
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Keep them covered and off the ground. Burning damp/wet wood generates
tar, and it's a bugger to get off the inside of the flue.

 

PipL alter ego wrote:

in stere

 

Oooh, thas intresting. I heard a theory where
limestone + steam + heat (prehaps + pressure) makes crude oil.

 

Magic oil in that case.

Heating rocks containing oil drives it out, true - that old shale oil
industry was based on that.

 

CaCO3 + 4(H20) + energy = CH4 ... where does the surplus Ca and O go
to? And where does the energy input come from?

JGH

 

I have thoughtfully corrected your post for you.

 

Best laugh of the day, ta. (not tar)

 

Shale oil recovery is going to be very big again

"even a moderate estimate of 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from
oil shale in the Green River Formation is three times greater than the
proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia"
http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/oilshale/index.cfm

Perhaps we should invade Utah and declare the Treaty of Paris (1783) void?

 

At the risk of going against biker sentiment, it's a bit of
a shame that all this newly recoverable energy is fossil fuel,
to the detriment of climate change and all that.

I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, I'm a petrolhead too.

 

Don't know. (But CaO is a solid below wowthat'shot temperatures, so it needn't
go anywhere. Indeed the oil tends to stay below ground - in the main - and oil's
relatively runny )

Geothermal. That's the point: that there's a hellofalot of oil suggests a
natural manufacturing process is in operation.

 

<Watches thread>

 

Grimly Curmudgeon said:

 

jgharston said:

Geothermal, at a guess.

 

When it's worthwhile, but that means high prices for all of us.
Sure, there are billions of recoverable barrels in shale and sands, but
the cost of getting it out is bleedin' high. It's nice it's there,
though, as a last gasp attempt to keep civilisation going for the rich.

 

How many millions of years does it take to make wood-tar in a
wood burner?