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Shvitzing Endeavour
Not the ship, but close – using fire pellets!
(last updated: 21 January 2024)
On this day in 1768 Captain Cook set sail from England on HMS Endeavour. He later discovered Australia, as it wasn’t known then. As Sir Terry once said, the people who already lived there couldn’t possibly have discovered the place first, because they didn’t wear proper trousers. pic.twitter.com/8lGoSSZzDa
Design and development time: nearing 1.5 years with zero starting knowledge and experience (see last video.) Just a twinkle in my eye. Still fine-tuning of course. More details TBA.
* not to be taken as an instructional or how-to overview. For educational and research purposes only. Something like this may eventually be sold in kit form for local welding and/or the plans to do it. There are tested and reputable products already on the market (eg Nero Multi-Fuel heater) and professionals who deal with them. The author will not be held liable for any derivative contraptions and any damage that they may cause. For example, if the flue is suddenly doused in cold water while lit, it could potentially cause flames to shoot up the hopper, but more likely cause it to fill with smoke and then spontaneously combust, especially if not covered at top. The problem is a lack of ‘draw.’ I haven’t had a problem so far but there is a degree of expertise needed to build and run this device, and many of these type of DIY stoves (and videos) already exist.
I’ve already tested mine successfully to be used as a thermosiphon water heater and it may also be possible to burn fuels other than wood. Also, the spark arrestor design is in the public domain.
Interestingly, there is a pizza oven that acts as a type of pellet rocket stove (with a scoop-in hopper) available Australia-wide.
That can be bought instead of making one’s own.
With regards to environmental concerns, burnt wood has already come from trees that have absorbed carbon to begin with. There’s a net-zero effect on environmental carbon unless it is part of a permanent deforestation program, and sawdust may come from sawmills that operate to fill the demand for timber that extends beyond pellet fuel. Burnt ash mineralizes compost for more nutrient-rich plants. Bushfires ravage Australia naturally, sometimes in controlled or cultural burns and this creates inputs for regrowth. Man-made climate change exists – but from my view point-of-view, CO2 emissions are the red-herring to shift attention away from geoengineering, its associated weather modification and living under an ionized sky.
"Big reveal is the sprayed Solar Radiation Management (Chem Trails) which have dumped Aluminum, Strontium and Barium on Us all are supplied from COAL ASH - residue of coal fire plants - thus infinite supply for Ionizing - same metals in both - Its conductive; this book shows the entire story." - Freeland review
How much “coal tax” (not carbon tax) is necessary to offset the cost of wrecking the atmosphere? So I put my wood ash into the compost heap, and if true, who would’ve thought coal ash ends up somehow up in the sky? Incredible.
Moreover, regarding wood ash, Wallach discovered that the employment of electricity resulted in the loss of the traditional source of dietary minerals – wood ashes.
Where progress came with the ability to flip a switch, regress began in our soils. Dr. Wallach reminisces on how his grandmother would use the byproduct of wood heating and cooking to season food and work back into the garden soil. Wood ash, a small amount of carbine and a whole lot of minerals were left in its content. And so the decline in the nutritional value of today’s food supplies. - src
Because no one knew that their traditional dietary mineral source (wood ashes) was no longer available. No one made the connection between wood ashes and nutritional mineral sources, and therefore no one supplemented to make up the difference. Because people liked electricity, hydroelectric dams were built which provided large supplies of electricity, however there was an unintended consequence – flood control. No more spring floods, no more mineral rich silt to plow back into the soil each spring to renew depleted minerals. - src
So is felling a tree as bad as digging for coal which in doing so is known to cause birth defects? Where are the free-energy and zero-point energy devices climate activists and smart-money people? In my opinion, EMF pollution, nano-metals, synthetic biology (related to unlabelled pill additives and transhumanism), GMO, glyphosate and microplastics are much more hazardous to the health of living creatures than carbon emissions. And of course airborne coal ash dumping (chemtrails) as mentioned above.
I don’t see this viewpoint as antagonistic, at least not on purpose, but rather self-evident. I was first exposed to the “greenhouse effect” in 1988 as some type of thing to be scared-of and CFCs propelling spray-cans were a big contributor to it (far more potent than CO2), and they also ripped a hole in the ozone layer.
If there’s an excess of CO2 it may be balanced by more plant life even if the byproducts of burning and mining for fossil fuels are problematic. Fossil Future comes in at a different angle too. In this regard, the Al Baydha project in Saudi Arabia greened a part of its desert by moving rocks to capture waterflow down a slope in a desolate area that would otherwise flood.
Significant results, 27 months after cutting all irrigation and 31 months after the last significant rainfall. ( 11:28 / 19:47 )
I’ve seen this type of environment up close in Eilat, Israel with its stone mountains and Wadis backing up onto the Red Sea.
At one point in time, this whole area was lush, or so they say.
Today, the sky still needs to be cleaned, but buying carbon credits is not the answer – at least for me. I expel CO2 and water vapour just like my stove and it is used in nature’s carbon cycle.
It’s interesting to note that it is much, much easier to get sunburnt in Australia than in Europe. That is said to be from an ozone deficit over Antarctica. Getting enough sun-induced Vitamin-D and not skin cancer (which it is said to counteract) without sunscreen is the real health balancing-act downunder. Also, I was told a lot of Pine from around Gympie is exported to Europe as wood pellets, so shouldn’t that be curtailed as non-native Pine is detrimental to the soil – after two generations the soil is barren, they also said.
At the time I was interested in producing wood pellets, and one sawmill had so much sawdust they said if I left a trailer on-site, they would fill it up for free. They couldn’t get rid of it fast enough. At the time wood pellet fuel wasn’t available nationally but that changed some months later. Europe has been big with pellets for many years, though.
3 – Boiler Cooktop + Roaster:
(newer version exists)
4 – Mini Cooktop: (v1.0 | 21 Nov 2023)
This design is now in the public domain for further research, testing and development in controlled conditions, but not general use.
Have you ever stopped to consider just what is wealth? A millionaire can consider himself poor in respect to others who have more than him, whilst a pauper can consider himself rich if he has just ten pounds in his pocket. Security is not based on the amount of money that you earn or possess. Security is based on your understanding of how your Creator meets your needs, of how your Creator knows those needs even before you do. You are only poor if you think yourself to be poor. You are only rich if you think yourself to be rich.
- Vision of Ramala (p 47)
Please note, this work is being done with the BCA in mind, and fire regulations. “The Building Code of Australia (BCA) provides essential technical regulations for the design and construction of buildings, and as a national performance-based document it establishes a uniform approach to building regulation in every State and Territory in the country. The BCA covers such topics as structure, fire resistance, health and amenity, building access and egress, & building services and equipment.” – source ✓ 3 months ago
If nothing else, free the Left Hand!
Independence can be a way of life too.
(last updated: 22 May 2023)
After starting drums in 1991 with teacher Andrew Smith, right after quitting many years of piano lessons, I played in the awesome Wesley Big Band from mid-1994 until early 1996 when I left due to time pressures. Big Band people also had to play in the Concert Band as a rule.
Simon played drums before me and set a really “nasty” precedent for me to follow after himself and a number of members left after the band’s Montreux performance in mid-1994. I also saw him play at a Battle of the Bands at the Lauriston Fair and he would’ve been best off playing under Maurice White than anyone else. That was in 1997 (although it could’ve been a year or two earlier – I doubt it) and I played in the 1997 BotB regardless and ended up dropping a stick after cramping up, and it was a shameful moment for me… wow, that had never happened before or after, but I think I didn’t like the band anyway. We’d rehearsed at my house too and I was doing a lot of the schlepping and all the carrying of amps took its toll. It was for first-time rockstar vocalist Hezza and in front of a lot of girls – I apologised but it wasn’t enough.
It was such a failure on my part, I think I ended up playing with one cramped forearm for two songs (the other arm was incapacitated) and Hezza had all his rock moves going. I barely even knew what a cramp was. It’s like “What the fuck is wrong with my arms!?” For Hezza, this was at a time when being on stage with a rock band was the equivalent in ego-saturation of having a new IG account with thousands of new followers. I think they wanted a new drummer but the guys weren’t up to par to get one so they all disbanded – not quite sure. Once bitten, twice shy!
Hezza had such high hopes and it all ended up a train wreck of emotion. I saw him years later in the city at night with his girlfriend of some sort and things weren’t the same. We were once such jovial pals.
Anyway, as mentioned in the article above, we won equal first at a music festival (my drums can be seen below) and if that’s still me below right, it must’ve been one of my last shows, otherwise it’s Ollie Clark.
He played alto sax and I once lent him a Sinatra CD that I purchased from Greville Records but I never saw it again – perhaps it flew away!
Interestingly, Andrew left me a heap of jazz records and I still have them to this day. The beats never die!
But I never really dialled into the importance of “double stroke roll triplets” until many years later. It’s a type of poly-rhythm that can really free-up the player to put all rudiments into a triplet feel. And that’s what life is all about – seeing normal things through new lenses! Also, the “Rock and Roll” style is actually about switching from straight-ahead grooves to swung fills. Think Bonham. And Angus Young has said he likes the drummer to even slightly swing the beats too! Interestingly, around 1996 I saw Julian Joseph at The Continental Cafe in Greville Street with Charlie (see below.) After the show, the drummer Mark told me that to be a good funk player it really helps to be a good jazz player in order to free up the left hand.
My goal is to have it to the point where it almost needs to be attached with a leash!
Full set of #Coronation portraits 1. King Charles, Queen Camilla in the Throne Room 2. The King with Imperial State Crown, Sovereign’s Orb, Sovereign’s Sceptre with Cross 3. The Queen with Queen Mary’s Crown in The Green Drawing Room 4. Members of the Royal Family 📷 Hugo Bernand pic.twitter.com/TGqirhOZ3s
