Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Did anyone watch this last night?


How to live beyond 100.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=How%20to%20Live%20Beyond%20100


Told you Kev. Another 40 years....

[Kev B]

Did anyone watch this last night?


How to live beyond 100.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=How%20to%20Live%20Beyond%20100


Told you Kev. Another 40 years....

Lol Tom, I caught the last 5 mins. 40 years more? Ok.

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I have the choice of spending the next two hours either,




Cutting the grass

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Or riding my bike.

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What to do what to do......

[Kev B]

Tom you really need a sit on.

I don't think you can leave Kizzy disappointed. Great photo.

Work bekons.

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Decided to cut the grass while the weather was fine.

Got started and the heavens opened.








Rain. Great for dancing in, but crap for mowing the lawn.

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Tom you really need a sit on.

I don't think you can leave Kizzy disappointed. Great photo.

Work bekons.

I had a sit on. She was old and decrepit but I could always coax her in to life.

Then one day my head was turned by a newer, shinier model, but she let me down after less than a year.

These days, I use the push mower. That way I save on the cost of a sit in and the cosy of a gym membership.

It also serves as punishment for being such a silly arse.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.


Ashley Smith

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Fuck me, it's raining again.

Old bloke outside post office just now.

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It's raining men - Hallelujah

Tikay

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A 900w microwave uses about 1500w of power - but like doubleup says, it will use that 900w (of microwave power) very efficiently.

I think some empirical research is required Tom - get experimenting and tell us your findings!

An engine generator is typically around 60% efficient, so combined with the microwave, you end up with about 35% of the combustion energy of the propane going into your soup.

Now, how efficient is lighting a flame under your bowl? A quick google gives a number of 50% efficiency for a gas hob. That's one number off one site and I suspect there are several variables. However, I think that probably answers the question.

I'm going to correct myself - the generator % was for a diesel generator; it's quite hard to get numbers, but a propane generator runs at <30% efficiency from what I can find. Which makes the case for a gas hob even more convincing.

I wonder.

If we could route the hot exhaust gasses from the generator through the cooking compartment of the microwave, would that redress the balance?

Would certainly help, although given the volume of exhaust gases produced, the average residence time in the microwave chamber would be small.

Say it's a 50cc 4stroke engine, running at 3000rpm (pure guesses), that's 50cc*1500 / min = 1.25 litres of gas per second (assuming 100% volumetric efficiency, quite likely). Say microwave is about 25 litres (typical), that means your exhaust passes through the oven in about 20s. Actually, that's not bad, you'd get reasonable heat exchange in that time.

But your soup may taste a bit funny.

Just to return to this for a moment, have we taken into consideration the fact that the gas hob has to heat the container before it can heat the soup?

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Have you ever used vegetable oil instead of  diesel   to run something

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Have you ever used vegetable oil instead of  diesel   to run something

Used all sorts of stuff Jase. Some of the really old engines needed to be started on paraffin or low octane petrol, but once they got warm you could run them on just about anything that was combustible.

20 years ago a diesel engine would run on red or white diesel, vegetable oil, heating oil, paint thinners, transformer coolant etc.

Nowadays the super performance, whisper quiet, mega efficient, computer controlled common rail jobbies are very particular about what goes through the pipes.

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Have you ever used vegetable oil instead of  diesel   to run something

Used all sorts of stuff Jase. Some of the really old engines needed to be started on paraffin or low octane petrol, but once they got warm you could run them on just about anything that was combustible.

20 years ago a diesel engine would run on red or white diesel, vegetable oil, heating oil, paint thinners, transformer coolant etc.

Nowadays the super performance, whisper quiet, mega efficient, computer controlled common rail jobbies are very particular about what goes through the pipes.

Agreed!

My Lexus wasnt overly happy when I put petrol in her!

[Kev B]

Fuck me, it's raining again.

Old bloke outside post office just now.

Costing me a bastard fortune, lost a week in the last three.

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Fuck me, it's raining again.

Old bloke outside post office just now.

Costing me a bastard fortune, lost a week in the last three.

The bloke who runs the local car boot is suicidal.