Hi all,
As per the title I see people say you can and some people are really against it! What does everything think?
I'm looking to get one but the missus hates the smell of smoke. She agreed to get one if these smokeless fuels are any good.
For my d&d game I want to have underground furnaces and forges without massive chimneys stretching to the surface for subterranean races
I'm thinking of there potentially being some way to generate a lot of heat without any sort of fumes, I have 2 ideas: thermite (I don't know what the smoke is in the images I can find) or some elemental crystals
They would still need either air holes or some other source of oxygen
So we've got a bit of an inconsiderate neighbor, they've recently had a new log burner installed onto their house.
We are in a smokeless area so only fuel that doesn't produce smoke is allowed.
Instead we are greeted with clouds of smoke being blown down, into our garden and the back of our house.
The neighbors either side of us have complained somewhere in some form but I'm not able to verify this.
Is there any ground to stand on with this? It's making our garden unusable. More so the dog comes back in smelling of a wood fire.
Thanks!
My girlfriend and I are about to move into a rented two bedroom terraced house which, bizarrely, is fitted with a wood burning stove in the living room. I saw pound signs when I realised this as I could probably wrangle access to a fair amount of free wood which would surely help to reduce our winter heating bills.
However I have since found out that the property is in a smoke control zone. Because of this, to use the stove we would have to spend money on smokeless fuel. I'm not even sure what smokeless fuel is or where we would source it from. With this cost in mind I was wondering whether it would work out cheaper to run the stove through winter or to just use the gas central heating. Has anyone else ever tried this and/or know whether it would be worthwhile?
We are in the UK if that helps.
Cheers.
I’m getting a stove installed and I’m not sure if there’s any point getting a multi fuel or not.
In England (maybe ROI too) it looks like coal is being phased out very soon for home burning but I can find much about this for NI?
It’s smokeless coal I use currently but I’m not sure if this is just treated as coal for future plans
Since there are many interesting questions about how the ancient egyptians did certain things, and since asking them in other places will look like iam pushing the "Aliens did it" idea, i will ask them here and hope some people have links to well researched answers, or something close.
1)Do we know what exactly the ancient egyptians used to light their workspaces inside all the lavishly painted tombs etc. Did they have some sort of smokeless torch, candle? The whole idea of them using mirrors sounds awfully complicated.
2)Did anyone try to recover the residue of the tools used on buildings and works of art?
Was it possible that the egyptians had access to iron? Using copper,and even only for the finer details, would still burn tons of fuel to be able to recycle it. Do we know if they imported energy dense fuel from other places? (Since using animal dung would not create a hot enough flame for completely melting down copper.)
Hi, my Midwestern residence has several 60+ year old oak trees on the property. They tower over the neighborhood and are so majestic and beautiful. However, when it's fall I spend DAYS managing the ever falling leaves. It's the bane of my existence. There are too many to mow up. Too many to haul away. Literally buried up to our tits in leaves.
So I've tried several different ways of managing them. The city dump in my town charges ridiculous rates to take them. All garbage pickup companies have to change their rates to make a profit. Pretty sure they just incinerate them anyways. Right?
So here's my idea. At home incineration. I have seen designs for smokeless barrels. I understand they are usually illegal. (Will cross that bridge when we get to it.) My IDEA is to build a better incinerator. One that somehow manages the extreme heat, leaves, waste, smoke in a safe way. Probably a big ask. But then I remembered something. BONGS AND BONG TECHNOLOGY. Can an incinerator be designed that somehow filters the leaf smoke through a water tank/reservoir? I imagine something like that giant gravity bong that Seth Rogan has. I just don't know enough about bongs. Is it still considered smoke that comes out the other end? Or is it more of a vapor.
Here's my other question. It gets cold AF in my Midwestern town. Specifically in my garage/shop. I have electric heaters and propane space heaters. Yet EVERY fall I am paying and managing massive amounts of leaves. AKA FUEL! Wish I could just save all the damn leaves somehow and convert them into heat in the winter. 2 birds with one stone. idk. Convert them into pellets somehow?
TLDR: CAN WATER PIPE TECH BE EMBIGGINED TO HELP ME INCINERATE ALL THE LEAVES IN MY YARD.
TLDR 2: CAN LEAVES BE STORED AND BURNED FOR HEAT IN THE WINTER EFFICIENTLY?
Thanks for your help and consideration. Let's discuss.
Sorry, I know this may sounds stupid to some of you but I don't quite understand the restrictions that come with a Stage 1 Fire Ban in Boulder county. The ban states:
"The fire ban PROHIBITS: a. Building, maintaining, attending, or using an open fire, campfire, or stove fire. This includes charcoal barbecues and grills."
but the follows up with:
"b. EXCEPT: Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire in constructed, permanent fire pits or fire grates within developed recreation sites, as specifically listed below in this Section (b)(i), and on private lands along with the use of portable stoves, lanterns using gas, jellied petroleum, pressurized liquid fuel or a fully enclosed (sheepherder type) stove with a ¼” spark arrester type screen is permitted."
I have a solo stove (smokeless fire pit) that I want to use in my backyard. Does this fall under the "private lands along with the use of portable stoves"?
I am having a hard time understanding whether it is okay for my to have a contained bonfire in my backyard or not.
Wanted to set up reasons why a certain world cannot advance past 19th Century, early 20th century technology, thereby bottlenecking technological progress by hard natural obstacles. Aside from complete absence of fossil fuels and radioactive metals, what other normally-natural compounds can I take out to prevent or hinder mass-adoption of automotives, aerospace tech, computers and telecommunications?
Do your worst!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
When I got home, they were still there.
It really does, I swear!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
