Hey guys! My son required that we make a DIY spear on camera...so along with some heating experimenting you can also construct yourself a survival spear lol! thanks for being a great crowd!!
So what is the temp range of your greenhouse at night with all the different systems you're using? 🙂 I tried doing a sand battery with my 4-tier greenhouse on my patio. I used a 12qt stock pot with sand and I placed it in a 350F oven for a few hrs. The temp stayed about 6F higher than the outside temp on my patio (this was sometime last month - I'm in TX zone 8b and it was in the low 50s when I tried the sand) But I actually got better results - close to 10F higher - by just adding another layer of plastic under my original greenhouse cover and putting a Planket over the entire greenhouse. When the temps dipped into the low 20s, my greenhouse stayed above freezing (33-34F) Are you familiar with One Yard Revolution here on YT? Patrick hasn't posted anything in a long time, but he built a greenhouse and was able to keep his plants alive during a polar vortex that sent temps in the -20Fs by layering plastic and insulating his greenhouse in different ways. If you haven't seen it, this is the video.... th-cam.com/video/Dd-FOj7cuLc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=eovU09uUYcHyUp-C
Yes I’ve seen that, we haven’t gone below 47f this winter with the coldest temps being -14f, over the winters we’ve survived -40 during the polar vortex we held 42f on our soil. All our self heating and diy systems are relatively free and do their job! Thanks for checking this out and sharing your experience!
Recently built a greenhouse and found your channel a few days ago while pondering how to keep it from getting below freezing at night. I was thinking about using compost but your video warning of the dangerous ammonia gas that gets released dissuaded me. I ended up buying a couple big 55 gallon drums for using the thermal mass of water
Bro you look great you got a Star Trek Riker + Wolverine hybrid thing going on kinda jealous lol. Good video. For people who have homes with outlets that can't handle big loads from space heaters, the sand bucket is your key. Outlet to power controller to only take low amounts of power to fill capacitors that take turns dumping into an element inside sand when they fill. Two sets of Capacitors taking turns filling will prevent constant on off action of the outlet for steady power flow and then the battery(sand) will store the heat you dump it will ADD UP. Its a good way for continuous large pulses beyond max output of power cores for energy based warships also. Capacitors can store power from wind speeds that push more energy than your battery banks can charge at and slowly bleed that energy at safe rates to your battery storage for increasing efficiency of Wind turbines also. AND! If you have all those capacitors made capable of sending power to a merger, you can use the capacitors for sudden bursts of power for Ultrasonic defense systems. Did you know plasma speakers can produce Ultrasound pressures greater than the bottom of the Ocean? In your TV shows you call what I'm talking about "force fields" lol. :) Yeah..
Neat! Have you tried positioning the water barrel above the bucket to create a thermosiphon to move the water, instead of an electric pump? Or is the flow too slow?
Space is the only inhibitor. I would have it that way if I could fit it. The pump is running off solar power so it’s a win win in our book. The natural flow would be great but too hard to achieve in here. Thanks for checking this out and sharing your ideas!
Thanks for watching! Glad you asked, so the system running our water pump in this video is powering several fans also. off just one 100w panel. We're sitting with 400Watts coming in at various points collectively now. we just ordered a couple more 100w panels to amp up the energy for our next heating experiments as they require more. thanks again
I’ll have to check that out. sand is great for thermal mass but water will always hold temps longer. Sand releases heat faster than water although it can hold a higher temp. Both working together with solar power was the goal. Thanks for checking this out and sharing your input!
Sand and heater elements don’t pair the best I’ve tried it. Unless you have a huge surface area to heat the sand with, the element burns out fast. I used a heating element is sand and it burned out quite quickly compared to the ones I’ve experimented with water that still are viable. The grains don’t transfer heat like water does
Hey guys! My son required that we make a DIY spear on camera...so along with some heating experimenting you can also construct yourself a survival spear lol! thanks for being a great crowd!!
So what is the temp range of your greenhouse at night with all the different systems you're using? 🙂
I tried doing a sand battery with my 4-tier greenhouse on my patio. I used a 12qt stock pot with sand and I placed it in a 350F oven for a few hrs. The temp stayed about 6F higher than the outside temp on my patio (this was sometime last month - I'm in TX zone 8b and it was in the low 50s when I tried the sand) But I actually got better results - close to 10F higher - by just adding another layer of plastic under my original greenhouse cover and putting a Planket over the entire greenhouse. When the temps dipped into the low 20s, my greenhouse stayed above freezing (33-34F)
Are you familiar with One Yard Revolution here on YT? Patrick hasn't posted anything in a long time, but he built a greenhouse and was able to keep his plants alive during a polar vortex that sent temps in the -20Fs by layering plastic and insulating his greenhouse in different ways. If you haven't seen it, this is the video.... th-cam.com/video/Dd-FOj7cuLc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=eovU09uUYcHyUp-C
Yes I’ve seen that, we haven’t gone below 47f this winter with the coldest temps being -14f, over the winters we’ve survived -40 during the polar vortex we held 42f on our soil. All our self heating and diy systems are relatively free and do their job! Thanks for checking this out and sharing your experience!
Learned a lot. Thank you. Also, your son is awesome!
It’s awesome to see your son out there with you
He really wanted to get this diy spear into the video lol. Thanks for watching!
Recently built a greenhouse and found your channel a few days ago while pondering how to keep it from getting below freezing at night. I was thinking about using compost but your video warning of the dangerous ammonia gas that gets released dissuaded me. I ended up buying a couple big 55 gallon drums for using the thermal mass of water
Bro you look great you got a Star Trek Riker + Wolverine hybrid thing going on kinda jealous lol. Good video. For people who have homes with outlets that can't handle big loads from space heaters, the sand bucket is your key. Outlet to power controller to only take low amounts of power to fill capacitors that take turns dumping into an element inside sand when they fill. Two sets of Capacitors taking turns filling will prevent constant on off action of the outlet for steady power flow and then the battery(sand) will store the heat you dump it will ADD UP. Its a good way for continuous large pulses beyond max output of power cores for energy based warships also.
Capacitors can store power from wind speeds that push more energy than your battery banks can charge at and slowly bleed that energy at safe rates to your battery storage for increasing efficiency of Wind turbines also. AND! If you have all those capacitors made capable of sending power to a merger, you can use the capacitors for sudden bursts of power for Ultrasonic defense systems. Did you know plasma speakers can produce Ultrasound pressures greater than the bottom of the Ocean? In your TV shows you call what I'm talking about "force fields" lol. :) Yeah..
Neat! Have you tried positioning the water barrel above the bucket to create a thermosiphon to move the water, instead of an electric pump? Or is the flow too slow?
Space is the only inhibitor. I would have it that way if I could fit it. The pump is running off solar power so it’s a win win in our book. The natural flow would be great but too hard to achieve in here. Thanks for checking this out and sharing your ideas!
How much solar are you using?
Thanks for watching! Glad you asked, so the system running our water pump in this video is powering several fans also. off just one 100w panel. We're sitting with 400Watts coming in at various points collectively now. we just ordered a couple more 100w panels to amp up the energy for our next heating experiments as they require more. thanks again
Have you heard of Off-grid Survival Mike's channel? He's been working on sand batteries for a couple years. th-cam.com/video/-qhV83pxV18/w-d-xo.html
I’ll have to check that out. sand is great for thermal mass but water will always hold temps longer. Sand releases heat faster than water although it can hold a higher temp. Both working together with solar power was the goal. Thanks for checking this out and sharing your input!
Sand and heater elements don’t pair the best I’ve tried it. Unless you have a huge surface area to heat the sand with, the element burns out fast. I used a heating element is sand and it burned out quite quickly compared to the ones I’ve experimented with water that still are viable. The grains don’t transfer heat like water does