EskWIRED@spamblock.panix.com wrote:

In misc.survivalism Dan Bloomquist <public21@lakeweb.com> wrote:

Very cool. Do you have a sketch of how it all goes together?

Thank you. Nothing suitable yet.

Please post more photos as the assembly progresses.

I plan to put a page up and detail the construction and operation. But for
now, I'll just snap pictures. There are more photos there.

http://lakeweb.com/boiler/

I am hoping to get the shop heated pretty soon. It will be direct steam
heat. I'm using a walk in freezer evaporator for the condenser. The shop
is insulated but 1300 feet with ten foot walls. I live at 7000 feet in AZ
so we don't need air conditioning. We just open all the windows in the
summer. But we do need heat in the winter.

The plan for the house is a little different. I've built the tank and heat
exchanger, and bought 3000 lbs. of hurricane wax. I should be able to keep
an efferent fire going for some hour and a half a day to store a day worth
of heat in the wax. We have a national forest in our back yard and cutting
permits run like $5/cord. Because I won't have to throttle the fire like
you would with an in house stove, I'll be able to burn pine like most
can't. It also means the house is warm in the morning without building a
fire first!

I've been working with the msp430 and plan to make one or more of these
the brains for this project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_MSP430

Best, Dan.