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Ah ha! Fantastic! But that thing your heating the set up with looks like a Coleman Military section cook stove? I thought they were a thing of the past- Where can someone buy it? It's the best little stove for absolutely getting stuff hot bar none!
On a spoon not a cotton bud, Methanol burns with a yellow flame and ethanol burns with a blue flame, this how you tell the difference for making ethanol/alcohol so you dont poison yourself with methanol.
Can the wood be dead or does it have to be alive? Thanks
Any suggestions on how to modify my charcoal retort to capture this liquid fuel?
Thanks
The idea and demonstration is straightforward but how best to scale up from producing a small amount into a beaker to say a gallon per distillation batch? Use a loaded 55-gal drum placed over a large fire? Seems it might get a bit risky the larger the scale though; not looking to blow or burn myself up… 🔥🔥🔥
Useful information. May desperate times never require this.
I really needed this video at the right time. Thank you Robert!
Does it work better with cured wood, or green wood? I know cured wood has less water, but don’t know if methanol is lost.
I thought burning something to extract gases and fuel was pirolises, the liquid oils produced would then go through thermal fractional distillation to separate into heavy to light distillates.
Would there be any benefit to using a rocket stove to generate the heat for pyrolysis from yard waste and then feed the gas into the chimney to burn?
Can you get methanol from scrap paper in dry distilation
can you show us how to make an (old fashion) automatic candle extinguisher for taper candles
impressive
I wonder if a flat plate heat exchanger would work ?
Brilliant! I used 20lbs of propane to heat the wood canister to make 4 oz of methanol!. It only cost me $ 27 to heat the can! What a joke!
Hello! I will be doing this distillation of wood alcohol for my experimental research. I just want to ask if i can also do this with water? Together with the wood? Or will it affect the extracted methanol?
Lastly, what type of wood do i need to extract methanol. Trees that are easily avaible in surroundings. THIS WILL REALLY HELP MEE THANK YOU
After playing and watching The last of us I ended up here; learning how to make methanol to source my backyard self-sustained biodiesel (oil+lye+methanol way) production
Good idea! Methanol can be used instead of gasoline in a "grid down" or emergency situation. People can use methanol to power up electric generators or internal combustion vehicles.
Though, the air/fuel ratios for combustion with Methanol will be different as is the energy density of methanol, but in a grid down situation it's best to have some liquid fuel than none.
Can you show us how to do wet distillation as well?
It would be interesting to show how to extract liquid fuel from many sources and each time show the liquid fuel running an electric generator or a vehicle.
Oh yeah, could you show us how to recycle our urine?
Urine is mostly water, can you show us how to remove all non water chemicals from urine, so that it results in pure water.
I tried distillation of urine and it indeed does result in a clear liquid BUT it smells like urine, and I haven't figured out how to get rid of the smell.
This also would be tremendously useful in an emergency situation, at the very least could help extend water supplies.
Sadly it doesn’t matter what you are using alcohol distillation in the United States is Federally prohibited without licensing so interesting as it is nobody get any ideas. There are fuel alcohol permits for distilling alcohol but how will anyone know how much alcohol their still should produce? Is this methanol merely a by product of making charcoal?
what you’re actually doing is boiling the wood.
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If you google methanol online it ses the only way to make it is from fossil fuels. Is this a diff type? Or is this just something they don't want us knowing? Wouldn't want us using it for automobiles as a natural fuel source.
if there is a patent on that, ill better think on patenting my idea of eating with the spoon on the left hand…. becouse there is probably none, on something what has nothing special on it aside that it is not very common uptoday. Sorry, I thought your channel is about Patents, or attemts to become those. Some Ideas are just so old that look like reeinventing whatb we already know.
How much methanol from 1kg of wood?
Very good ❤
Umm yes very dangerious for people taking a risk..
I remember back in New Zealand when I was a kid 3 Russians on a fishing boat out at sea drinking wood alcohol hmm 🤔 I can't remember if they all died…
A bit sad really, do they not teach about the dangers of methanol? 😳
I have a few crazy Russian friends but I don't think they would try their chances…
Robert Murray Smith.
You could cook it to ash, making hydrogen, alternative fuel during WW2.
The use a reagulay engine, draw a fire and hot gases thew a vortex filter and simple radiator and into the carburator
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No fake no fire ??? Whyyy
If you were to put Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon into a tube and pressure it to 50-60 bars, would it explode from the H + O connection? …or would it be fine as long as there are no sparks??
There is a company named "Vevor" that makes, among other things, stills. Although the one I bought was intended for "Beverage production," it is an 8 gallon Stainless Steel vessel, with a lid that clamps on, a Thermometer that goes inside through the lid, and, a condenser coil that has a water jacket!, and includes a WATER PUMP, so you can circulate cooler water from a tub or bucket.
I see no reason It won't work for this. But once I try it, I'll never want to use it for "Beverage production." Which is fine, I don't drink. I can still use it for fuel grade Ethanol, though.
I paid $105 and change for it.
I plan on using 5 gallon water bottles, the "Water Cooler" style, with a Tee fitting on the tubing to allow the condensed Methanol to drip into it, while the volatile gasses like Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide et cetera are fed to a burner under the pot, to help fuel the process.
I shall bookmark this video and try to remember to make an update, and also try to post a video of me trying it.
Methanol doesn't produce any visible light when it burns, this is either not methanol or it's very impure
People have been using cow manure and anaerobic digesters to generate syngas for a very long time.
What do you think of basically taking a parking garage and modifying it to be a sort of controlled nice pasture for cows, where you can easily also collect their feces and flatulence?
You can grow hay vertically in a vertical farm next to essentially a parking garage tailored for cows.
That way you don’t have to have switchgrass or anything else competing for food, and you’re actually generating food along with hydrocarbons – milk, cheese, yogurt, icecream, Pizza, and gasoline.
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Over time, The dairy business would be the same, except you don’t need gigantic tracks of land, and everything could be easily cleaned and controlled, and the air can be controlled -methane as your base hydrocarbon to work with in another dedicated chemical plant.
There are ways to control the air quality, but you need people to manage the cows, their food, their health, and their byproducts, be it milk or feces – which you can collect vertically or horizontally.
Either way, it’s very efficient way to collect methane without having to much in the way for switch grass or any other type of grass (engineering) -Essentially becomes mostly labor
For syngas generation, is there a type of sawdust that you can put with it to mitigate the smell, while also contributing to gas generation later? Besides baking soda