I'm surprised that not many people know charcoal is a partial poison antidote. And I wasn't even in boy scouts or the military to know that. Just random information online, I'm glad Cody brought it up.
'Yes, it's a good chaser for the cyanide.' 'So, did you eat a half-bottle of apple seeds again?' 'Yes.' 'Why?' 'Cause I couldn't find a half-bottle of peach-pit kernels...'
Cody'sLab is amazing, both educational and entertaining... alas, half of his best videos where removed by youtube for being too... energetic (ie. His mining stuff where he used some explosives to mine, him making nitroglycerin, various explosives, gunpowder from his own urine, etc.)
@@brandonmack111 and @Nib-Na5ty, the chicken hole base series is one of my favorite series' I've seen made on UA-cam and I'm so excited to see where he goes with it. I also find that Cody brings such a refreshing sense of scientific curiosity and displays such a wonderful yet safe "hands-on" experience. Truly inspiring.
Stacks have multiple uses, from evaluating polish notation, organizing the compilation process to developing efficient algorithms or just passing parametersto a function ;)
So true, yet it's funny how well it immerses you into the video. Sounds like Cody is really talking to us and like I'm right there with him learning all this shit
Cody eating charcoal always surprises me for a second even though iv'e seen it tonnes of times before, it just seems counter intuitive till you think about it.
My family used to make charcoal when I was a kid. It's done by limiting oxygen intake as wood is burned. We took a bunch of dead trees that the men that worked for my grandfather pulled out of the forest (we also made maple syrup), and stuffed into a building made of concrete bricks. The concrete could breathe a little, but not enough to get a blazing fire. It would smolder for days (weeks?), and once it was opened up, we had charcoal. I remember my grandfather checking the heat of the wall to determine when it should be opened up. What was produced he sold, although some of it, we kept and used. Lost art in my family I think at this point.
I'm wondering if a little extra VOCs in the storebought don't make for a slightly hotter/more sustained burn temp🤔 You'd definitely want the homemade for filters and consumption and such, though.
@I-Love-CO Mountains the store bought stuff burns cooler because of volatile components: latent heat of evaporation plus the endothermic nature of last phase of pyrolysis. That's why if you want to smelt ore you should use a glassy high carbon substance. The lower burn temp of grilling coal gives more consistent heating for less experienced users and the added tarry smoke flavor.👍
@@aeroscience9834 I mean logarithmic growth isn’t bad either, it quickly ramps up to difficulty and very slowly increases after that. Exponentially increasing is just unfair, and just isn’t that fun.
Actually not that far off. There was a paper that talked about how older trees didn't convert/use as much CO2 as younger trees, so, to help out the problem, they proposed to cut out older trees and start planting new ones on a huge scale, also getting the wood profit. Combine that to this carbon method taking advantage of the residual energy to transform it to electrical and no more climate change. I know it sounds stupid, but in a small scale as Cody made here he could wrap around some copper pipe and use it as a winter water heater.
Been a while since I've watched your stuff, Cody. Upon finishing this video I'm reminded just why you are not only the greatest content provider on this platform, but also if the world had more people like you things would be so much better off. Thank you for the years of incredibly insightful entertainment. All the best to you, bud. You deserve it.
Honestly I think you are the best example I currently know of what UA-cam should have been about since its creation. In my eyes you make the most socially natural content - no ads (by simply utilising Patreon), attention-seeking gimmicks or self branding other than your intro and outro and it is well edited - it is easy to follow (though saying that I am science and engineering focused) while still being comprised 100% with logic and humanity. As a result I (and I presume many others) have a basic human connection to your channel that I can't say to the same extent for any others I know of, independent of genre.
Cody’s Lab is among the crème de la crème of UA-cam. His videos repeatedly answer questions I’ve pondered or he does things that are simply amazing and intriguing. I hope for so many good things for him.
Cody I could literally watch hours of your videos and be thoroughly entertained the entire time.. thank you so much for posting your awesome videos ...
Preparing the charcoal with the fish is very good. A lot of people don't do a step like that and end up with poor results. When you mentioned quenching the charcoal with water to soak it, I am reminded that many of your videos involve a vacuum chamber. Your various vacuum setups could easily perform the soaking step without having to juggle smouldering coals. Just evacuate a chamber of the charcoal, close the vacuum port, and open a port to some stankwater to load up the coals.
This is why I watch your channel Cody... Nowhere else can I see somebody applying sound (and very interesting) logical/scientific thinking to a host of typical everyday life topics and processes that culminate with something as uncommon as you taking a chunk of charcoal and hanking into it like it was a Slim Jim as you comment on the taste! Outstanding! Perhaps you might consider doing a segment on pyrolization of plastic waste?
SSOOOOOOoooo refreshing to watch your videos! No BS...no attitude....just plain old science in easily digestable form! When the sh...t hits the fan YOU DA MAN!
I am getting into sciency stuff because all of what youre saying gets explained so down to earth simple and understandable. I really like your content, its easy to watch but still interesting as hell. Ty for making vids!
@@charleslambert3368 Actually that guy's method is much more efficient because it does what he said at the beginning, uses it's own wood gas to turn it into charcoal. But since water is hard to come by, a giant mud dome isn't very practical for Cody
This Minecraft playthrough is great! Not many people know you don't have to go digging for coal right away, but can turn chopped trees into charcoal to make your torches. I can't wait for your next episode.
Cody do you think you would ever get a discord for the community, it seems like an easy way for the community to talk to eachother, for us to talk to you and vice versa?
@@NickyNiclas It's possible to make separate channels within a discord to separate patrons from non-patrons. Limit the non-patrons chat to a slow mode. I think it could easily work.
Never commented on your videos Cody, been watching since 2014 maybe 2015. I think you were sub 200k subscribers back then. Your quality has improved, but your content hasn't faltered. I love your videos, and i even now watch them with my wife. You're without a doubt my favorite science channel on youtube. Keep on going up, but don't change.
I didn’t realize how brilliant the upside down trash can idea was until I tried it for myself. Once you get it to fire off it sustains itself. Magnificent way to increase efficiency!
Thanks for the Video, was just talking to ranchers the other day in Kremling, CO about them Turing some beetle kill trees in to charcoal and spreading it in their fields to improve soil quality. Will send them a link, thanks.
I love how Cody just do anything he puts on his mind and the quality of the content he produces along it is just so High that I'm watching all the videos for the third time and it is awesome. Thanks Cody
Hi cody! Your videos are really helping me right now, I’m in a bit of a stressful place in my life right now. Honestly it’s crazy like I love all the stuff you do!!! Thank you!!!
Before I started reading the comments I thought to myself there gonna be critics that will spoil a quite educational video just like most of Cody's videos are. I wasn't wrong lol. keep up the good work Cody I love your work man.
Tomato juice can full of wood, with a canned tomato can in the end and then tossed into the wood heater makes even smaller batches. Cans last maybe 5 times, but while even less efficient, everything is either reused trash or already making heat. Effort is loading the can, which can be one solid log. Cody's rig is much better built.
3 years ago I saw your comment on a video showing why store-bought charcoal sucks (lime and coke added to it to increase weight) (I think the video was uploaded by AvE). This is a nice followup video to that comment :P A very nice video as always! It really is hard to believe that the production of charcoal creates a net negative in the carbon dioxide levels, despite all the burning. I never realized trees were THAT efficient.
codys comment was "Ah yes coal being passed off as charchoal think about all the volatal organic hydrocarbons getting into your food! Also I've learned that those ashes kill trees if dumped anywhere near the roots where normal wood ash acts as a fertilizer." Just posting it here too since it might be useful to know that store-bought charcoal should not be used as fertilizer.
I happen to have the same barrel in my back yard to burn trash, so I might have to try this myself. Also the supercut at the end was a very nice touch.
I hate ASMR, but that was the closest I got to understanding the madness. I definitely wouldn't want 5-120 minutes of just crunching charcoal. I'm not mad
After watching the primitive tech guy and you both make charcoal kilns... idk... I think I will continue to burn deadwood to ash for home heat when the local environment allows. Right now electric heating seems like the best option. Currently, I'm in an agriculturally productive rural county chock full of wind turbines. Seriously, thank you for sharing your science. You are an inspiration and an example.
I noticed you were on a shortage of water out by the chicken hole in your last base and thought of the easiest way to generate it where you are: distillation from plants. 70%+ of their weight is water and can be evaporated out during the charcoal process into a cooling chamber where the steam condensates into a fairly clean water (and somewhat volatile). Given that you had 20 kg of wood, and 15 kg was baked out of it, you could extract close to 15 L of volatile water. This could be used directly on the machinery or to water plants with nutrients already added, or it could be distilled further to make potable drinking water and potentially plumbing. As for the sunflowers, you can probably extract oils from the flowering plants, extract some water using that process, and use the leftover plant waste to make charcoal. This would be an incredibly resource efficient process despite being time inefficient. You’d get oil (for fuel), water (for above purposes), and charcoal (for the videos purposes).
Even after all the water has been vaporized, burning dried plant material would produce a fair amount of water. Cellulose is a chain of (C6H10O5). Adding 6(O2) from the air for complete combustion and you'll have 6(CO2) and 5(H2O). Although you will likely get a fair bit of volatils from incomplete combustion. Maybe they could filtered out through charcoal, and neutralise wood vinegar with wood ash, and then distill everything on a relativly low heat. Lots of work for sure but you can have access to even more water even if the plants are already fairly dry.
Keith Reynolds yeah which is why I suggested he does both vaporizations. As for just filtering water through charcoal, I wouldn’t trust my life on it- especially since the charcoal isn’t pure carbon. There’s still lots of alkalis and metals that don’t evaporate out of the charcoal that could contaminate the water. Also the water itself might have ions that can’t be filtered out through charcoal. Best bet for potable water would be to distill it
I love your charcoal work. I really wish I had the time and tools to do this. I can't get good charcoal and here. Thanks for showing the process and data. Keep up the great work.
Wood gas reclamation would jump your efficiency through the roof. Passive coil in water condenser. Long term storage. Easy to run small engines with. Great video, thats why i watch the older ones.
I’ve only tried it small scale with a steel paint can but like you said the amount of wood gas produced should be enough to heat the process. If you have a C shaped pipe that routes wood gas from chimney to beneath the barrel it will burn kinda like a “perpetual” machine. However you do need the starting heat to begin gasification a smaller fire lit below or a propane burner would work great. The only danger is if the gas over produces and engulfing the entire barrel. Since I’ve only done this small scale it has melted Small holes in cans where hot spots developed.
After observing Cody for a few years, I’ve noticed something. Cody looks at everything like he’s alone on some alien planet. Not that any of this would necessarily be possible on another planet; it’s the idea that he sees things through the lens “look what I found on this planet. Now let’s form a cogent hypothesis and see how it all works.” A true scientist, in my opinion.
If you're having scaling problems on your lid, you might try putting a bit of boric acid or borax on the top, or if you want to use what the pros use try a protective ceramic coating such as ITC-100 or similar. Smiths use these coatings to protect their own tools in similar environments, it should work in a charcoal retort.
I totally get making your own charcoal. Good charcoal isn't cheap, neither is hardwood but you can use all the hardwood scrap that otherwise ends up chipped and not even firewood.
Pretty cool stuff. Wood burning is one of those things, where there are so many co-generation possibilities. Combine enough of them together successfully, and even though you may lose out on efficiency in making the charcoal, you can gain it back and more in other areas. Like using the waste heat to heat water, or the gases to increase the co2 in a greenhouse. Lot of possibilities.. lot of challenges.
I knew he was going to eat some when the camera switched to his face. That and it's kinda his signature thing
Cody: devourer of worlds.
Wonder if we sent him Castor bean leaves if he would take a bite.
yeaah the moment that scene started I was like "he's gonna bite and chew some for sure" thas our cody.
I'm surprised that not many people know charcoal is a partial poison antidote. And I wasn't even in boy scouts or the military to know that. Just random information online, I'm glad Cody brought it up.
desu ne!
hahaha
Cody's future wife before a bbq party: Honey, did you eat the charcoal again?
'Yes, it's a good chaser for the cyanide.'
'So, did you eat a half-bottle of apple seeds again?'
'Yes.'
'Why?'
'Cause I couldn't find a half-bottle of peach-pit kernels...'
His math girlfriend needs to do a video idea together again!
Cody did you charcoalize the steak again?
hahaha charcoal is good for diarrhea
@@lightdark00 they broke up....
This was so soothing to watch. I also loved the fish cameo! Haven't seen those buggers in a while.
Yes give more fish videos!
"sunflowers might be what I do next," says Cody, in front of sunflowers.
Cody Don, mob boss, threatening sunflowers right to their faces
the crowley method of gardening
Sunflowers: *"why do I hear boss music?"*
This actually made me choke 😂😂😂
Next he'll turn the snitches into charcoal
It's Codydon not Cody Don
Just discovered this channel a couple of days ago and wow am I going down the absolute best rabbit hole.
only saw it today. someone rewrote some algorithms or something. but i like it
Cody'sLab is amazing, both educational and entertaining... alas, half of his best videos where removed by youtube for being too... energetic (ie. His mining stuff where he used some explosives to mine, him making nitroglycerin, various explosives, gunpowder from his own urine, etc.)
Welcome, enjoy the ride - you will have fun.
Enjoy the ride.
@@brandonmack111 and @Nib-Na5ty, the chicken hole base series is one of my favorite series' I've seen made on UA-cam and I'm so excited to see where he goes with it. I also find that Cody brings such a refreshing sense of scientific curiosity and displays such a wonderful yet safe "hands-on" experience. Truly inspiring.
I want to make charcoal. I don’t need charcoal, but I want to
That's how I feel about all Cody videos. I just want to go around doing random science stuff. I dont need to but I want to.
you can scale this down to a soup can, and use a torch.
Does anyone know what's the propose of using a stack?
Stacks have multiple uses, from evaluating polish notation, organizing the compilation process to developing efficient algorithms or just passing parametersto a function ;)
Joe the Squid. Check out Primitive Technology.
I like the timelapse of the process. The reality of being a youtuber is holding a camera on stuff and talking to yourself lmao
So true, yet it's funny how well it immerses you into the video. Sounds like Cody is really talking to us and like I'm right there with him learning all this shit
I love this channel. Most genuine and entertaining channel on UA-cam.
Always quality content
Now if only UA-cam would stop deleting his video's and letting the garbage content stay.
Cody eating charcoal always surprises me for a second even though iv'e seen it tonnes of times before, it just seems counter intuitive till you think about it.
I always find you in the weirdest places Peter.
Best part, watching my girlfriend's face when you bit off part of the charcoal stick
I knew he was gonna do that the instant it cut to that angle.
@@Sparrow420 exactly dude. I was like No! Don't eat it doooon't.. and he did.
@@alsayedjalal well, he ate the bee charcoal, so this is probably less gross than that
@Howdy Justice I mean if you like that variety better then I can show my boyfriend, whatever floats your boat
Cody: Hi Doc, I'm not feeling well
Doctor: Are you eating a balanced diet?
Cody: Sure, I have charcoal, mercury, Argon, Neon and Xenon...
Don't forget about the time he drank cyanide
Seriously underrated lol!
Don't forget that time he tried to eat sodium.
Don't forget about the time he drank heavy water.
peak male diet
Cody, a wheelbarrow without a wheel is just a barrow.
What do you got against “just a barrow”?? 😂😂
Ah, yes... Justin Bieber's estranged 3rd cousin, Justa Barrow.
*eats charcoal*
Hmm yes high quality carbon
Hmm, yes. Enslaved carbon.
Bekir Kl
It’s only the finest!
Charcoal is healty helps with poop
@@filds1 think i rather eat coffee beans lol
@@legendaryoutcast4440 I mean if you have crazy diarrhea
My family used to make charcoal when I was a kid. It's done by limiting oxygen intake as wood is burned.
We took a bunch of dead trees that the men that worked for my grandfather pulled out of the forest (we also made maple syrup), and stuffed into a building made of concrete bricks. The concrete could breathe a little, but not enough to get a blazing fire. It would smolder for days (weeks?), and once it was opened up, we had charcoal. I remember my grandfather checking the heat of the wall to determine when it should be opened up. What was produced he sold, although some of it, we kept and used.
Lost art in my family I think at this point.
Sun flower: *minding own business*
Cody: "You're next"
I love Fancy Pants Adventures.
... I'm dying.. .omg
Everyone: why is this charcoal better?
Cody: It's completely tasteless
I'm wondering if a little extra VOCs in the storebought don't make for a slightly hotter/more sustained burn temp🤔
You'd definitely want the homemade for filters and consumption and such, though.
@I-Love-CO Mountains the store bought stuff burns cooler because of volatile components: latent heat of evaporation plus the endothermic nature of last phase of pyrolysis. That's why if you want to smelt ore you should use a glassy high carbon substance. The lower burn temp of grilling coal gives more consistent heating for less experienced users and the added tarry smoke flavor.👍
I thought "Log Tetris" was a version of the game where the pieces fall at a logarithmically increasing rate.
That would be horrible
That wouldn't last long!
Steve Evans I think your thinking of exponentially increasing rate. Logarithmic growth is actually pretty slow
@@aeroscience9834 I mean logarithmic growth isn’t bad either, it quickly ramps up to difficulty and very slowly increases after that. Exponentially increasing is just unfair, and just isn’t that fun.
quote of the year: "don't want to turn your fish into soap" Cody Don 2019
Michael Stefanick why would it though?
@@almostreal96 ash+ water+ animal fat = soap
Saponification baby
I literally laughed out loud when he said that, mostly because I instantly understood how and why.
We all know he does want to turn his fish in to soap. I'm betting the day they die they'll become soap
0:00 I gave you a high five✋
Such a wholesome positive comment😃
this is still one of my feel good channels to watch, its just fun and awesome.
Next vid: scaled up too much, accidentally sequestrated all CO2 on Earth and created an ice age
A+
And killed all the plants.
Actually not that far off. There was a paper that talked about how older trees didn't convert/use as much CO2 as younger trees, so, to help out the problem, they proposed to cut out older trees and start planting new ones on a huge scale, also getting the wood profit. Combine that to this carbon method taking advantage of the residual energy to transform it to electrical and no more climate change.
I know it sounds stupid, but in a small scale as Cody made here he could wrap around some copper pipe and use it as a winter water heater.
@@invencible33 Cool concept, sorta like we were doing pre 1990 :) I'm on board, Now to convince everybody else !!!
🎉🎉❤😂wooooo!!! Cody… still killing it! I’m so proud!!!
Cody, have you been practicing your handwriting? That intro is the most readable one in years!
Been a while since I've watched your stuff, Cody. Upon finishing this video I'm reminded just why you are not only the greatest content provider on this platform, but also if the world had more people like you things would be so much better off. Thank you for the years of incredibly insightful entertainment. All the best to you, bud. You deserve it.
9:27 Oh lord I know this camera angle. He's going to eat it, isn't he?
9:31 Yup
worst part is i knew it was coming when i saw what he was making, yet it still gets me off guard...
Honestly I think you are the best example I currently know of what UA-cam should have been about since its creation. In my eyes you make the most socially natural content - no ads (by simply utilising Patreon), attention-seeking gimmicks or self branding other than your intro and outro and it is well edited - it is easy to follow (though saying that I am science and engineering focused) while still being comprised 100% with logic and humanity. As a result I (and I presume many others) have a basic human connection to your channel that I can't say to the same extent for any others I know of, independent of genre.
You’re a cool guy Cody, wish I had some of your enthusiasm.
Cody's earnestness is what sells this content.
Lots of people show us making charcoal. Cody takes a bite out of his.
when can we expect the "Turning Goldfish to Soap" video?
Cody’s Lab is among the crème de la crème of UA-cam. His videos repeatedly answer questions I’ve pondered or he does things that are simply amazing and intriguing. I hope for so many good things for him.
5:57 it was on its way to falling over 👌😂(The stack)
These videos are just great. People will watch and learn how to do things for themselves decades from now, they're timeless.
biting into fresh homemade charcoal absolute madlad
Cody I could literally watch hours of your videos and be thoroughly entertained the entire time.. thank you so much for posting your awesome videos ...
I never thought in a million years a person could crunch on a branch of charcoal like a damn carrot.
You pleb creature don’t you know the benefits of homemade carbon
Preparing the charcoal with the fish is very good. A lot of people don't do a step like that and end up with poor results. When you mentioned quenching the charcoal with water to soak it, I am reminded that many of your videos involve a vacuum chamber. Your various vacuum setups could easily perform the soaking step without having to juggle smouldering coals. Just evacuate a chamber of the charcoal, close the vacuum port, and open a port to some stankwater to load up the coals.
Old Cody's lab: breath all the gasses!
New Cody's lab: eat all the charcoal
This is why I watch your channel Cody... Nowhere else can I see somebody applying sound (and very interesting) logical/scientific thinking to a host of typical everyday life topics and processes that culminate with something as uncommon as you taking a chunk of charcoal and hanking into it like it was a Slim Jim as you comment on the taste! Outstanding!
Perhaps you might consider doing a segment on pyrolization of plastic waste?
9:27 why do i get the feeling that he's about to--
9:32 *crunch*
SSOOOOOOoooo refreshing to watch your videos! No BS...no attitude....just plain old science in easily digestable form!
When the sh...t hits the fan YOU DA MAN!
Your doing tasks with one hand is most impressive.
I am getting into sciency stuff because all of what youre saying gets explained so down to earth simple and understandable. I really like your content, its easy to watch but still interesting as hell. Ty for making vids!
Some documentary: Making charcoal is a long and involved process.
Cody: Hold my sticks.
ThePyro112 Cody *bites stick*
Primitve Technology: hold my mud.
@@charleslambert3368 Actually that guy's method is much more efficient because it does what he said at the beginning, uses it's own wood gas to turn it into charcoal. But since water is hard to come by, a giant mud dome isn't very practical for Cody
This Minecraft playthrough is great! Not many people know you don't have to go digging for coal right away, but can turn chopped trees into charcoal to make your torches. I can't wait for your next episode.
Cody do you think you would ever get a discord for the community, it seems like an easy way for the community to talk to eachother, for us to talk to you and vice versa?
Make it Patreon only in that case or it would get too congested and quickly turn into the opposite of what you're imagining.
@@NickyNiclas yea unfortunately it has to be gated.
@@ac.creations why not both
@@NickyNiclas It's possible to make separate channels within a discord to separate patrons from non-patrons. Limit the non-patrons chat to a slow mode. I think it could easily work.
I don’t know anything about discord. I haven’t put my skill points into it.
Woah. Watching the wind direction change affecting the smoke is awesome on the time lapse
9:30
I can imagine Cody plays Minecraft and then tries to eat Charcoal.
Never commented on your videos Cody, been watching since 2014 maybe 2015. I think you were sub 200k subscribers back then. Your quality has improved, but your content hasn't faltered. I love your videos, and i even now watch them with my wife. You're without a doubt my favorite science channel on youtube. Keep on going up, but don't change.
Nobody:
Absolutely noboby:
Cody: *casually munches on charcoal*
some people crave strange things due to nutrient deficiencies
@@luciferangelica Cody is pregnant!
@@mr.zimbel that would explain it
That was funny hahahah
I didn’t realize how brilliant the upside down trash can idea was until I tried it for myself. Once you get it to fire off it sustains itself. Magnificent way to increase efficiency!
I am not even 1 second in and I had to give you a thumbs up! Love ya man!
Its cody, theres no doubt that its a good vid. The thumb up is always clicked in advance of watching the vid.
@@Gjorten I always wait until after the video, because I bet that the like is worth more then. Algorithmically that is.
@@knas5289 hadn't considered that.
Thanks for the Video, was just talking to ranchers the other day in Kremling, CO about them Turing some beetle kill trees in to charcoal and spreading it in their fields to improve soil quality. Will send them a link, thanks.
I knew it. I knew he would chomp the charcoal the moment he grabed a piece. FFS cody.
Now that's a setup for making charcoal!
9:30 I saw it coming simply because of the camera angle and how you were holding it. I was still shocked though
I love how Cody just do anything he puts on his mind and the quality of the content he produces along it is just so High that I'm watching all the videos for the third time and it is awesome. Thanks Cody
I don't know why I was surprised when you bit the charcoal
Hi cody! Your videos are really helping me right now, I’m in a bit of a stressful place in my life right now. Honestly it’s crazy like I love all the stuff you do!!!
Thank you!!!
I almost forgot how Cody likes to eat literally everything lol
Cody's lab is one of the reasons I keep coming back to UA-cam. Quality content every time!
He's literally just vibing at the moment,,, taking carbon out of the atmosphere
Before I started reading the comments I thought to myself there gonna be critics that will spoil a quite educational video just like most of Cody's videos are. I wasn't wrong lol. keep up the good work Cody I love your work man.
Cody: I used the sticks to destroy the sticks
Stick win every time.
Making "char cloth" for fire starting is very satisfying, as well.. Great video, Cody!!!
Coooooooooooooodddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyy! How are you my man :))))) We love your content!
Tomato juice can full of wood, with a canned tomato can in the end and then tossed into the wood heater makes even smaller batches. Cans last maybe 5 times, but while even less efficient, everything is either reused trash or already making heat. Effort is loading the can, which can be one solid log.
Cody's rig is much better built.
Me: "Cody making charcoal ... nice"
Me: "But will he eat it?"
(waits a bit)
ofcourse
I Cody, I don't let comments often but I watch all your videos ! Thanks for your work ! Hello from a french guy living in Congo BTW
I freaking love this channel
3 years ago I saw your comment on a video showing why store-bought charcoal sucks (lime and coke added to it to increase weight) (I think the video was uploaded by AvE). This is a nice followup video to that comment :P
A very nice video as always! It really is hard to believe that the production of charcoal creates a net negative in the carbon dioxide levels, despite all the burning. I never realized trees were THAT efficient.
codys comment was "Ah yes coal being passed off as charchoal think about all the volatal organic hydrocarbons getting into your food! Also I've learned that those ashes kill trees if dumped anywhere near the roots where normal wood ash acts as a fertilizer."
Just posting it here too since it might be useful to know that store-bought charcoal should not be used as fertilizer.
i died a bit when he took a bite of the charcoal XD
I happen to have the same barrel in my back yard to burn trash, so I might have to try this myself.
Also the supercut at the end was a very nice touch.
The sound of charcoal is so ASMR
It makes my teeth hurt.
omg, you have synethesia?
I hate ASMR, but that was the closest I got to understanding the madness. I definitely wouldn't want 5-120 minutes of just crunching charcoal. I'm not mad
After watching the primitive tech guy and you both make charcoal kilns... idk... I think I will continue to burn deadwood to ash for home heat when the local environment allows. Right now electric heating seems like the best option. Currently, I'm in an agriculturally productive rural county chock full of wind turbines.
Seriously, thank you for sharing your science. You are an inspiration and an example.
Cody: *eats charcoal
*My strange addictions wants to know your location*
I noticed you were on a shortage of water out by the chicken hole in your last base and thought of the easiest way to generate it where you are: distillation from plants. 70%+ of their weight is water and can be evaporated out during the charcoal process into a cooling chamber where the steam condensates into a fairly clean water (and somewhat volatile). Given that you had 20 kg of wood, and 15 kg was baked out of it, you could extract close to 15 L of volatile water. This could be used directly on the machinery or to water plants with nutrients already added, or it could be distilled further to make potable drinking water and potentially plumbing.
As for the sunflowers, you can probably extract oils from the flowering plants, extract some water using that process, and use the leftover plant waste to make charcoal. This would be an incredibly resource efficient process despite being time inefficient. You’d get oil (for fuel), water (for above purposes), and charcoal (for the videos purposes).
Even after all the water has been vaporized, burning dried plant material would produce a fair amount of water. Cellulose is a chain of (C6H10O5). Adding 6(O2) from the air for complete combustion and you'll have 6(CO2) and 5(H2O).
Although you will likely get a fair bit of volatils from incomplete combustion. Maybe they could filtered out through charcoal, and neutralise wood vinegar with wood ash, and then distill everything on a relativly low heat. Lots of work for sure but you can have access to even more water even if the plants are already fairly dry.
Keith Reynolds yeah which is why I suggested he does both vaporizations. As for just filtering water through charcoal, I wouldn’t trust my life on it- especially since the charcoal isn’t pure carbon. There’s still lots of alkalis and metals that don’t evaporate out of the charcoal that could contaminate the water. Also the water itself might have ions that can’t be filtered out through charcoal. Best bet for potable water would be to distill it
im simple, i see neat cody vid, i click
I love your charcoal work. I really wish I had the time and tools to do this. I can't get good charcoal and here. Thanks for showing the process and data. Keep up the great work.
Stick Tetris: Blow Totch Mode
Wood gas reclamation would jump your efficiency through the roof. Passive coil in water condenser. Long term storage. Easy to run small engines with. Great video, thats why i watch the older ones.
Mmm, now I want to eat some charcoal. 😂
To taste it's quality.
I don't even watch your videos often, but somehow I find you really likeable. Plus you have such a pleasant voice.
I feel that if breaking bad was real, Cody would be the perfect Walt.
The sound that charcoal makes is so pleasing. Between this and Primitive Technology I think I'm set for life.
Plants: Oh no he's talking about charcoal again. Let’s get out of here before we're next!
I never thought I'd be so entertained watching charcoal being made as I start up my charcoal grill. Thanks Cody!
I just knew you were going to eat it xD
I’ve only tried it small scale with a steel paint can but like you said the amount of wood gas produced should be enough to heat the process. If you have a C shaped pipe that routes wood gas from chimney to beneath the barrel it will burn kinda like a “perpetual” machine. However you do need the starting heat to begin gasification a smaller fire lit below or a propane burner would work great. The only danger is if the gas over produces and engulfing the entire barrel. Since I’ve only done this small scale it has melted Small holes in cans where hot spots developed.
Need to do a BBQ with all that charcoal.
the whole point of the video is **not** burning the charcoal
Another Neko disagree, the point of the video is to make charcoal.
After observing Cody for a few years, I’ve noticed something. Cody looks at everything like he’s alone on some alien planet. Not that any of this would necessarily be possible on another planet; it’s the idea that he sees things through the lens “look what I found on this planet. Now let’s form a cogent hypothesis and see how it all works.” A true scientist, in my opinion.
Nobody:
Cody: You can eat it.
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You can eat all kinds of things, some things only once though lol
If you're having scaling problems on your lid, you might try putting a bit of boric acid or borax on the top, or if you want to use what the pros use try a protective ceramic coating such as ITC-100 or similar. Smiths use these coatings to protect their own tools in similar environments, it should work in a charcoal retort.
Cody: better use gloves this time.
Also Cody: eats it
Getting charcoal off your hands is hard.
I totally get making your own charcoal. Good charcoal isn't cheap, neither is hardwood but you can use all the hardwood scrap that otherwise ends up chipped and not even firewood.
9:31 Now that's carbon neutral diet for all of you "how dare you" folks.
Let's plant trees to absorb CO2 and then char and eat them
Mr. Viceroy
I dunno, looks pretty carbon-rich to me. ;P
Or burn them for energy.
@@mzflighter6905 start the process all over again using human charcoal poop to grow the trees in
Pretty smart letting the gas burn inside the chamber to really cook it well. Good job. Thanks for posting .
God I am so immature. Opening line in the video...
"..so this pile of sticks here...."
>starts to giggle
Pretty cool stuff. Wood burning is one of those things, where there are so many co-generation possibilities. Combine enough of them together successfully, and even though you may lose out on efficiency in making the charcoal, you can gain it back and more in other areas. Like using the waste heat to heat water, or the gases to increase the co2 in a greenhouse. Lot of possibilities.. lot of challenges.
Codys next video:
Eating ONLY charcoal for 24hrs
Great tune over your time lapse. Fantastic vid. Thanks from Australia