3 Feb 2022

And Then A Song For The Day...

   To go along with all the joyous announcements today regards how you will have no money left after paying your bills, but you will be happy, that also ensures that if co-co or the co-co ‘cure’ don’t get the old folk then hypothermia probably will, here’s an old one wot still works.

        
   Hay, Mr Bojangles while you’re acting all tough towards Vlad the Lad, why don’t you threaten to stop buying his gas? Or better still, cut-off his financial activities in the smoke so that he retaliates by turning off the gas taps? That’ll teach us...
   Oh to live on an island with easily secured borders. An island sitting on its own huge reserves of coal, oil and gas thus ensuring the inhabitants have an ample supply of secure, reasonably priced energy. You hear me Mrs Bojangles? No? Oh right, us down here pay for yours don’t we.

Quote;  James Thomas Kesterson Jr.

“Inflation is taxation without representation.”

1 comment:

Ripper said...

Mac,
Nearing the end of the DIY upstairs, then I can start the real work downstairs. One job is the fireplace. The heating/hot water come from a gas combi boiler that feeds 7 radiators and the fireplace is never used. It has a cheap and ridiculously fake fan heater disguised as a coal fire that I disconnected as soon as I moved in here. So, as energy costs are going through the roof and the supply gets iffier by the day, its led me to investigate alternative forms of heating that could be self sufficient just in case Vlad does end up turning off the supply.

I've settled on opening the fireplace back up and installing a wood burner but I recall, sometime during the 80's seeing this great system invented in the USA. I never heard anything more since but I've just found it again.

Ever heard of a water hammer? Its just a pump basically that heats the water by smashing it. Some installations exist so its known to work but I believe the inventor was bought out and the idea shut down. Its so simple that I think I could build one, it could sit outside and be connected into the house radiator system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjGSXKSLpfY

Another option for occasional heating could be done with a thermosyphon system fed from a coil of copper pipe wrapped around the flue of the wood burner, fed into a copper cylinder the old fashioned way.