Earth Hour 2011, Shut Down Just About Everything, Did This Piece Of Art In Oil Pastel By Light Of My Biofuel Wee Oil Lamp, It Was Just Over An Hour Work In Art, Yet To Be Completed I finally got to get back at doing some art during Earth Hour this evening, when I scanned the piece of art I am working on, it was cut off a bit, the actual size of the oil pastel paper is 31 x 42 cm, my largest dimension on my scan is for a legal size piece of paper of 8 1/2" x 14". I have been so busy applying my engineering skills in my little shop that I made in some of my kitchen space. Between working on biofuel, I built three wee oil lamps of different sizes over a period of time to have test burns of my biofuel calculations. The biofuel burns clean with no oder and could be used in a desiel engine for fuel with the correct fuel injector with the atomizer tip for the viscocity of the fuel to get the correct spray pattern. Then I also worked with my tools building my reverse osmosis processing system for my drinking water from the City water main. As to the City of Montreal web site, it is recommended that one filters their water from the City water main. I first started doing this when I went pre-cancer some time back, then I got back into it more seriously and further developing my process to get the cleanest water possible. I have made distilled water in my process, and that type of water is essential for sterilizing lab equipment, when one goes through the process of cleaning your processing equipment. For those that do not know, distilled water is pure H2O, with no mineral deposits in the water such as mineral water or spring water. I was shocked last time I went to some distilled water in the pharmacy, it was in a clear plastic bottle and did not even taste like distilled water. You can do a basic taste test on distilled water, but it is not health to drink because it lacks the much needed mineral deposits that is found in drinking water. Even to take for example, most City water supplies are treated with floride to help protect ones teeth as to various dental recommendations. In building we all know how a dripping tap over a sink can cause rust deposits on the porsline bathroom sink, or in a shower head it nozzle tips will turn rusty brown. This rust in the water comes from a corrosin reaction from water and steel pipe work. There are many types of different pipe work that are used for water piping, from cast iron pipes for city city water mains for example, to black pipe, galvinized pipe, and plain steel pipe to stainless steel pipe work for medical or food processing equipment and of course standard copper pipe with brass fittings. Modern engineering even came up with plastic piping such as PVC piping for drain pipes, plastic water pipes will errode with water flow, take for example how flowing water cut into rock creating the Grand Canyon in the United States of America. There is a thing with pipe work, how in effect they are all dissimilar metal, the piping that I just mentioned, dissimilar pipe work will cause galvanic action, another name for corrosin. I am even socked as a Engineering Techncian, how these un-educated handymen that run buildings mismatch pipe work when replacing corroded pipe in buildings. One must stick to all the same type of piping, may it be black or galvinized piping. The various type of piping have different costs from a supplier, I forget the price variation, but going for the cheaper pipe nipple or elbow in bullshit work. You must stick to the building plumbing system and use the same pipe work in replacement parts. Another main factor that I onced discussed in a Bar over a beer with a Master Plumber, is ground faults. The ground wire of a building electrical system is hooked up to the City water main, electricity will flow to water first before you will get electricued, but these ground faults in building from bullshit handymen playing with building electrics will cause small leaks of electricity to to the water pipe work and create a process called electrolysiss, the end end result is excessive galvanic action/corrosion of a building's pipe work and of course the City's water main. The City's water main pipe work is faced with two types of corrosion factors. Interior corrosion with the flow of water through the pipe, and then of course the exterior corrosion that is excelled through the acid rain factor that even errodes our precious carved stone brick work found on older building from the Vicorian construction period. Really now, when I had the discussion over a beer with the Master Plumber, he was fed up with argueing his point about bullshit electrics screwing up his expected life span of his pipe work in buildings. I was just as fed up as he was at that time argueing the very same point, he had more budget than me and bought me a couple of beers, and like I said to him, I will carry on argueing the very same point we are discussing, because going cheap to make a quick fix is usaully the exteme wrong thing to do. It costs money to repair engineering correctly to get the calculated life expectance of of the piece of engineering. Now when it comes to modern medical research and blood work, it is now reconized that excessive iron in blood tests can cause cancerous conditions in the human, or farm animals for that matter. Even when one gives blood to the Blood Bank as I do, the Nurse will test your blood iron level before it is varified if you can donate your blood and howe irt is used in the blood bank system as over seen by Hema Quebec in my Province. Excessise building rust in drinking water pipes, just think about what it leads to, we all know that rust building up in our kettle for making our hot beverage, and we constantly go at it to keep our kettle clean of rust or if you never clean it out, you end up buying a new one from the heating element burning out from excessive water sludge build up on it. In engineering, there is such a thing a calculated error, and compounded error, I always fought against compounded engineering error because any one that can buy a tool, thing they can use it without going to school to learn engineering basics. There is even economics of engineering, calculating cost over runs, when one puts in a price quote for an engineering repair job, it is a very specialized field, some people are very good at it, like a Contractor I once worked for, two men ran the Company, the Main Man with the tools that over saw workers and then his Priceless Partner, the Main Man that could qoute the cost of a job so good, they both had a successful busness. In engineering saftey for machanical failure, one calculates 1.5 % safty factor, same thing, whatever you thing it will cost to do a engineering repair job, you multiply it by 1.5% for unforeseen complications.
