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Fire Wood the easy way or….
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Your looking at an interesting picture. It shows a number of things.
How to get firewood without working
How your government wastes money
How to heat your cabin for a couple of years for free.
What you see on the left is my GMC/Izuzu medium duty truck fill to capacity with firewood.
A closeup so you can see just [...]
Posted by neonjohn on November 17th, 2008 under BBQ and Food, Cool Stuff, Energy, Government | 1 Comment »
Dissection of a Furnace Fan Motor
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or Why There is so Much BS on the Net.
In this post I’m going to take you through a guided tour of the common everyday fan motor that drives the fan in just about every domestic air conditioner, furnace or heat pump. At the same time I’m going to demonstrate why there is so [...]
Laser Printers and Inverters
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A question came up about whether a laser printer would work with an inverter. I first started running an HP LaserJet II on a pure square wave inverter about 20 years ago. Not a pseudo-sine inverter but a brute-force square wave, produced by a “baseband” (60hz) Tripp-lite inverter. This thing was a simple transformer-based blocking [...]
Posted by neonjohn on August 4th, 2008 under Cool Stuff, Energy | Comment now »
Green Weenie Laughing Stock
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It’s not that often that one runs across a single incident that simultaneously illustrates so many things wrong in the world today. Here is one. Another version.
At first blush what we appear to have is a revolutionary new lighting invention, a lamp that will run for hours using the energy supplied by a [...]
