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-How to Pyrolysis-
The video below shows a series of experiments I carried out with the chemical reaction known as pyrolysis. Pyrolysis can be used to break down carbon based materials (wood, grass clippings, manure etc...) into simple compounds. Pyro is Greek for "Fire" while Lysis is Greek for "Separating". To perform pyrolysis the material must be burnt in a zero oxygen enviroment to halt combustion. As the material breaks done it gasifies allowing you to collect these gases. Once collected the gases can be condensed into liquid fuels of different fractions in a process known as 'fractional distillation'. Fractional distillation is the process that fuel for your car is created.
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Hi all. Hope all is well!
I just wanted to touch base to keep everyone up to date with the direction I hope to work in over the next few weeks. I have many projects on the sidelines, but a couple, in particular, has surfaced as a priority. One such project is the need to get my H-Cell built. So what exactly is a H-Cell? A H-Cell is a simple device. It comprises two buckets or containers that can be completely sealed from the outside environment. The two buckets are stood upright beside each other and are joined by a tube bridge. This tube bridge gives the H-Cell its' name. The tube itself is packed with cotton wool; this bridge acts as a barrier between the buckets while still allowing electricity to flow through the fluid in the bridge. In each of the sealed lids of the buckets, there is a single electrode, one for each bucket. These electrodes extend down into the liquid of each bucket. A positive connection is made from one of these electrodes to a battery or power source such as a solar panel. On the other side, a negative wired connection is made, completing the circuit back to the power source. The H-cell comes in handy when you find the need to break substances into their simplest forms. The process is called electrolysis and could be considered the chemist's scissors. It is a trade tool and can be used to break down and extract many highly prized substances. One such example is using a H-cell to break down ocean water to create many extremely useful bi-products. These products include chlorine, hydrogen and sodium hydroxide. Using these components, one has fuel, a base substance to make soap and chlorine used for cleaning purposes. It's incredible how easy it is to get all of these substances from seawater, one H-cell and a battery or solar panel. The second project I will be working on is refining the container Solar Decell unit. The glass jar Decell unit was a success, and from this, I still desire to expand the ideas learned from the Jar Decell to a container version of the project. This will be simple enough and will only require minor changes to the system I currently have. Sealing the unit is a priority and may be completed before the day is through. The ultimate vision of the container Decell unit can be seen in a picture I have put together. It's a rough sketch of what I'm trying to achieve, but the idea is available for all to see! Hi All, hope all is well! First, for some great news. I have finally had the opportunity to add Oxygen to the journals!
Upon opening the Oxygen Journal, you will discover that my articles discuss the many forms of oxygen we can find in our environment. I have also included some links to some video content I have created regarding water desalination using an air still and the sun's power! In the first entry, I attempt to answer that question that keeps us all awake at night! What is water mostly made of? It should have been a simple question with a simple answer, but this was not the case as you will read! I hope you enjoy my new content! Please head on over to my YouTube channels and subscribe! The first is titled Micheal Farmer and the second is simply titled Farmer! The more, the merrier! I am glad to have admitted very early on in the development of this website that it was a work in progress! At least I can say that I'm honest! This website is more than just a work in progress, at times the entire project comes to a screaming halt! But here I am, writing once more! Only the other day I had some constructive criticism in regard to the websites layout. "Layout," I said. "what layout?". My website was barley strung together and yet at least there was a website. The entire thing could very easily still just been a figment of my imagination. But no. Here it is. On the web for all to see and criticise. To be honest, the criticism got me to work on the page. The truth was I am still working out how I want the page to be displayed. I believe I am slowly getting there. Eventually I want the entire page to focus around The Journal's at the top of the home page. Each element should lead to blogs that are in direct relation to these elements. I am severely lacking in content but than again there is only so much one Mick can do.
As early as this very morning I did manage to update my weekly Top Ten YouTube videos. So that's a bonus! Be sure to check them out, like and subscribe! I could certainly use the viewers! I have also managed to create a new extraction video in regards to the extraction of Drinking water and salt from Ocean Water. You can watch that video by searching for it under the Sodium Journal here as well. If you are interested in all my other YouTube content you can click here to go straight to the YouTube channel itself! Cheers! In the meantime I hope you all enjoy the small amount of house cleaning I have managed to get done! Micheal Farmer I finally found use for the Home Page of my site! And thats to use it to tell you all about the latest articles I have written and where you can find them! Now I'm not gonna lie, I have been a little slack lately. My motivation seemed to dry up as Uncle Covid continued to ravage the land. But I have however managed to write one article and that is the second instalment to my thoughts on the game The Last of Us 2. You can find the second part here!
As for everything else, well, whats there to say? My veggie garden is cruising along nicely. I have failed to write anything in regards to it lately but if your interested in finding out where this little patch of food producing madness began you can click here. The webpage in general is a work in progress and this will always be the case. I have managed to cash in more cans and invest more can money into the markets. I desperately need to write an article updating this story but alas, that too has slipped through my fingers. Perhaps that is what I should be writing about at this moment instead of procrastinating... Find the latest Can Do article here (which I completed after feeling guilty for not having done so). Hi and welcome to michealfarmer.com.
I am so glad you found me! My mission is simple! To make you money! No, wait.... That's 'Mad Moneys' pitch. Lets try that again. My mission is simple. To make things from scratch and in doing so learn how the world really works! Along the way I hope that you have the opportunity to learn with me, after all knowledge is something that should be shared and easily accessible to all. It is also something that should be learnt well enough that you can teach others. Passing information down the ages is what makes civilisations strong. The information I will be providing is designed to see you through the apocalypse. It will be explained in plain English for everyone to comprehend after all what's the point of knowledge if no one can understand what your trying to teach? This is technically a prepper page veiled beneath the safety of a science page. If you take the time to learn the procedures I am planning on sharing you will soon come to know the basics of many of the conveniences we take for granted today. Basically put, if the fuel tap of the world is turned off you will need to understand these procedures to rebuild the world from the ground up. If at any point you feel like contributing to the knowledge base feel free to do so. I appreciate all comments and feed back. Fresh ideas are also something that I personally consider valuable. If you see something that I am doing and think you can do it better please tell me, like I said, I am open to all suggestions and recommendations for improving the many procedures I will be carrying out. Please check out the video journals above. This is where you will find videos regarding each catagory of exploration I have so far undertaken. As time passes I will continually add more information to each of the journals in regards to the processes I have undertaken. Cheers and I look forward to sharing more! |
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