Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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DC_Vol said:
My wife is from a different country and she likes Trump more than I do. She’s a woman. She’s not white. She’s not American. And to be honest with you, she’s not exactly on the lower end of the class scale. Just something to chew on while you paint with your broad brush.
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There is always a personal anecdote to counter with... my assessment of Trump and his rallies is 100% accurate.
 
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Grand Vol said:
Still fun, just more time consuming.

I do have cedar I burn from time to time. That stuff is like the wood version of gasoline.
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Back in the days when we used to cut our own Christmas tree, my favorite was always cedar because of the smell. Probably tempted fate, but the smell was so good. We did keep water in the pan and kept an eye on the needles.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
There is always a personal anecdote to counter with... my assessment of Trump and his rallies is 100% accurate.
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It sounded more like a Brian Stelter rant. I guess with the daily Trump rage + the disappointing football you’ve gone further down into that dark hole.

Election is right around the corner, buddy. 😉
 
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VolStrom said:
Do you guys need a lesson on how to cook steak? You probably also buy 95/5 hamburger meat too?
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Not sure what she normally buys. My brother does the best burgers - and more often than not he buys the long packs at Sam's. I leave the cooking to someone else - something I hate to do. I half kid that you can only starve once, but cooking is a habit that lasts a lifetime.
 
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Speaking of food - some good smells coming from the kitchen. I tell my wife it's good, and she will say she's happy for me (sarcastically) because she still can't really taste or smell ... her round with covid was early August.
 
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Orangeburst said:
@RavinDave

I was at a biomass power gen facility today. You deal with biomass or just biogas? They take wood mulch and use it for power gen, like 25MW at this facility. Never even knew they used wood for such. They get the wood from cleaned out forests. CA should think about it, but too late now...lol

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There've been a few projects where biomass is fed into a chemical or biological or plasma process to break it down and generate a syngas (mostly CO and H2) which can then be used to create other chemicals, in particular ethanol. One company bought a few small bits of catalyst from my company for a pilot plant in Georgia that was based on pine chips, where the end product was "bioethylene" with ethanol being an intermediate. Then there was a large engineering effort expended to design a plant in California where the raw material would be waste nut hulls from plants that process almonds and other nuts... that would get zapped in some kind of plasma process to create a syngas that would eventually be converted into ethanol by a fermentation process with a special patented bug. They must have spent a few million on engineering and I provided a couple reactor designs to purify an intermediate stream, and there was a nice potential sales volume involved, but that project seems to have died on the vine.

On another front, Waste Management has an active research effort to take raw landfill gas, isolate the methane out of it, then instead of selling the methane as "renewable natural gas" (like a lot of the LFG facilities are doing) they use a special reactor & catalyst (not one that I m involved in) to convert it into long chain hydrocarbons like kerosene to be sold as jet fuel...
 
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Well, the GV property looks like the aftermath of a hurricane (or tornado). And they are still coming down. I can hear branches dropping all over the place.

Louder, you sure you don't want to come help burn?

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