Built a homemade woodstove i will post pictures of pretty soon. I’m considering a homemade water heating system to improve the efficiency of burning wood with some added copper lines ran through the greenhouse. Just thinking out loud about ideas such as this. Im always looking for ways to get rid of my endless wood supply and to live within my means off the land as much as possible. This land has been mostly kind and generous to me in my life time but it is equally cruel to those who dont understand the resources we are blessed with. I’ve certainly been on both sides of that fence within my lifetime. Better to live with nature rather than try and change it. When we have an abundant resource such as wood if used properly we can turn it into an abundant resource we need such as heat or food. Who doesnt have trash trees pop up in fence rows or fruit trees that need pruined or if nothing else scrap wood in the area being sent to the landfill?
Methane gas has little to do with my plans on this small project at this time but farms such as mine with a surplus of organic material can generate resources out of that waste material for larger projects like this
On a much smaller scale this is how to use compost we make anyway for our gardens to generate methane gas as a fuel
Hydrogen gas can also be aquired from water if solar panels are used to generate electricity to heat with
Im taking my time on the greenhouse and just working it in since i really dont need it or the resources at this time. Its better to make hay while the sun is shining as the old saying goes not because we need the hay in the summer or the greenhouse in this case. Eventually we will use the greenhouse to generate many more resources but there is no hurry. Winters seem like they are colder and lasting longer and because of that the greenhouse will eventually come in handy.