Mart Hale

If it is under warranty appears that the controller board can go out...

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

Ever since I started playing with thermal mass with my sand batteries, I became much more aware  of how small changes = big results over time.    

Being able to log the outside temp and plot that on a graph and being able to overlay the outside temp to that graph was most valuable to get the big picture.

It seems to me that the standard damper could be designed better to stop airflow...   but on the other hand don't want CO2   build up.     I guess your move to stopping the air entering the rocket probably best option.

William Bronson wrote: I think ceramic fiber insulation give the best performance out of anything available so far.
People who build forges use some costings which seem to be effective safety barriers.

Growing up in the 80''s I was expecting to have a power armor exoskeleton with a layer of space shuttle tiles by now.
I'd settle for the tiles at a reasonable price!

You may want to watch this guy he does experimental coatings for furnace applications...

I watched the video again......  ( from the first post )    and I do believe they are using a fan to push the flames....    The reason I say that is you see flames shooting out the cracks on the top of the stove....   this is not normal as it would normally just go out the chimney...    

I think a fan would be a good addition, but if they got the flames that big they should also show how they got them....

I bet this would work great with sawdust.....      Something I would be interested in seeing is if the air coming in would be at an angle if a vortex could be created.....

Would be useful for creating charcoal as turning off the air would be easy with this design...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hf7CPemA0e4

My solution...

I spent much time trying to use rye flour to make rye bread.....

I did not like Rye bread because the flour would not rise very well.


My solution......      get rid of the rye bread, and use standard bread flour, and throw in the caraway seeds with the bread,  I get the taste of rye bread with a large fluffy loaf of bread.


So my fake rye bread is even better ;-)

Duplicate message..    See I fail here as well ;-)

My failures ( also known as learning what NOT to do ) ...

Tried growing okra in soil blocks,   I put them out in hot sun dried out and died.      

Did battle with aphids on my cabbage,  learned there was an ant nest in my soil was unable to identify so lost the cabbage.

Found raccoons invading my grow bags, so I lost soil and the time spent making the soil, and planting...      ( think I may of found a solution )

Found aphids destroyed my taro,     next year plan on doing war on ants that farm the aphids on my plants.

I guess some of this was my fault,  not knowing how to work with God's insects / plants.      

With my failures, I have also had break thru with heading toward my goal of growing more calories..

Had an electrician friend who used to say,  "if you are not breaking anything, then you are not doing anything"...

I do find it good to make a journal of what went wrong, and fail differently next year, as why be insane and repeat the same mistakes?   ;-)

Ann Torrence wrote:A great explanation of capitalism was in one of my college textbooks, yes still in print and a comic book at that:

Marx for Beginners

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We started a biotech business because of a failure in the gift economy.

For his science,  makes molecular markers in his lab. Because part of his work is federally funded, he is required by law to make them available to others in his field (he can't squash others' science by not sharing technology). He is not required to give them away; the university can also license his ideas and products to be sold through the free market. Back in 1995, he got a phone call from a colleague and friend:

I became aware of this system when I watched the film "The internet's own boy"...     I then became aware of all of the research that has been done with our tax dollars that you have to pay a fee to get...   Research that was created with our tax dollars.....

I was very impressed with what Aaron did in trying to liberate this information, but not impressed what the FBI did to Aaron.        There are information gatekeepers......    there seems to always be a toll....  even if you already paid for it to exist.