wood burners

[TurtleWoods72]

On 02/12/2025 at 18:47, spudulike said:

It won't be long before there is a "pay per log" tax on wood burners.

And toilets 🚽 💩 💴 

[Muddy42]

On 05/12/2025 at 13:54, openspaceman said:

I doubt it and I bet they cost a lot. Stirling engines are typically in hermetically sealed units, like freezer compressors, to prevent leakage of working gas.

 

The only DIY thing I would consider would need petrol, diesel, LPG or mains gas. A small water cooled engine  and in my case just running to charge a battery an hour or two a day in winter.

 

i'll give it a miss then.  Nothing drives me mad than proprietary equipment that you can't work on.  New cars and dealer only stuff but also I lived in a house for a while where the previous owners burglar alarm company refused to give me the admin code and tried to put me on an annual contract just for changing batteries and vacuuming dust out of the sensors.  I won in the end, the previous owner was under contract not me.