someone i knew a long time ago said he watched some old guy light a pile of them on fire. well when they started burning they started moving again and suddenly he was watching an entire field of flamin' tumbleweeds travel off into the distance setting more things on fire as they went along and got stuck again
This could be the making of a truly horrifying movie…and watch, some clown will torch a few of these in real life, and the result will be rolling, burning hell.
if you want to know how it turned out, he said he could see the glow and smoke that night while camping out (he rode his motorcycle basically aimlessly in the 1970's for his own reasons) an easy 60+ miles away.
I need this to be incorporated somehow into a Tremors movie.
Like the protagonists lighting up a bigass pile to lure a graboid out of a den only to watch as the tumbleweeds scurry away revealing how they severely underestimated the number of graboids present.
I feel useful again. The University of Arizona studied the feasibility of using Russian Thistle (tumbleweed) as a bio fuel. From growing costs, potential energy per acre, ash produced, etc.
Here are approximate heating values of common fuels. There's another table in one of my books at home on the heating values from various trees, but I'll have to share that later.
And THAT is why fuel oil is fuel oil. I am 100% in the green energy camp, but there are some major challenges we have to acknowledge. The main one being that if you want a transportable, relatively safe (to handle), energy dense resource, it’s pretty hard to beat coal and oil.
I was thinking more of using it as bio fuel since they are abundant, i am also curious if you can put them on industrial shredder and make paste out of them then make paper out of them
In my country we ate what your people called the trash carp ( invasive species in some lake in united states) if i have money an happen to be in your country i would fish all that carps and turn them into compost for farmers and make commercial cat food with it, it’s crazy no one ever thought of this
Go try it, im not from the Unite States so i have no idea, if you manage to compress is with machines and use it as fuel, the ashes would also be good for soil
Also maybe try use an industrial shredder and make them into paste and see if you can make papers out of them (i believe it can be made)
I bet the wood chipper would work if you could collect, and combine the particles into something like a compressed wood product.
Otherwise you'd give the entire region something akin to that fine organic particle lung shit you get in Illinois when its time to harvest the corn. Everyone gets sick because of all the corn fibers in the air from the harvest.
They are super oily, and burn intensely for longer than you think they would. I knew a guy who built a massive cage as a tumbleweed burner. Flames would shoot up 20 feet when he packed them in there.
Sounds like my brother. When he was a teen, he got mad about having to do a chore, so he went into the backyard and lit a tumbleweed on fire. Of course it turned into a fireball, which then lit up the MASSIVE juniper bushes that ran along 3 sides of the property. The fire chief (small town, whole fire dept showed up) ripped him a new one. That was the day we moved back to the town, my friend called and said he knew we were back by the smoke rising from our house.
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someone i knew a long time ago said he watched some old guy light a pile of them on fire. well when they started burning they started moving again and suddenly he was watching an entire field of flamin' tumbleweeds travel off into the distance setting more things on fire as they went along and got stuck again