Setting Carboy directly on ground not safe?

[Revvy]

Only old ladies have them... hang on I'll be back I gotta run out to the porch for a sec.

Oh oh.....If that's the case we demand pictures.

But that means you already have the clothes for the carboy.

I'm partial to this one.

 

[Frodo]

Hail to the victors valient! Actually that's a great disguise so the earth won't know it's a carboy and therefore won't suck the energy out.

 

[trigger]

Ok, I hate hippies. Stupid grrrrrrr makes me so frustrated.

Enough! Deep breaths Cartman...

I throw this in the bin with magnetic bracelets, homeopathy, raw food diets and ether science as stuff that I wish I'd never heard of.

 

[tbel]

I've been told before not to set a car battery directly on the ground, as it will drain the charge.

A carboy though? I bet that guy has some real entertainment value.

That must be it! Somebody told this guy not to put a "CaCar battery" on the ground and he heard "Carboy"

 

[Elshupacabra]

This comes from leaving car batteries on the concrete. Supposedly if you leave a car battery on a concrete surface for an extended length of time, the concrete will act literally as a "ground", complete the batteries circuit and actually drain the battery.

It's a fairly well circulated rule of thumb in the mechanics' circle and is mostly believed to be true. Some research indicates that it was really only a problem when batteries' cases were made of rubber instead of plastic, since the electrolyte could actually penetrate the rubber and "seep"(for lack of a better term) into the ground.

Interesting that someone has adapted it (sort of) to the beer world though! :fro:

 

[r8rphan]

Possible typo here?

We had shortcockers in the locker room in high school. Never heard of the other type.

I always avoided looking down so I never knew about that....

 

[r8rphan]

Ok, either I've had too many beers tonight or this threads just freakin' crazy! I goota go find some wood to sit on...

Just don't set the wood on end......

 

[edmanster]

Just don't set the wood on end......

Does help to support the container that being said the milk crate for me.....lol (milk)

 

[r8rphan]

Al Gore told me that carboys cause global warming , scratch that, climate change, and that I now must buy carbon credits from his company to make up for my crimes against his mother.. cause my carboys are using earths energy and creating CO2 while they do it.. And Michell says my carboys have too many calories and my portions are too big!

Somebody should regulate this!
Good thing I'm already poor!

 

[r8rphan]

I'm gonna use this thread as my new ABV calculator.. Read it before and after partaking of my delicious home brew and record the difference...

 

[edmanster]

Al Gore told me that carboys cause global warming , scratch that, climate change, and that I now must buy carbon credits from his company to make up for my crimes against his mother.. cause my carboys are using earths energy and creating CO2 while they do it.. And Michell says my carboys have too many calories and my portions are too big!

Somebody should regulate this!
Good thing I'm already poor!

Don't even try to compare to the beef/meat industry but I think it's all good cause then I couldn't get my CO2 tank refilled....

 

[r8rphan]

I need to jump on the bandwagon.. I think I'll start collecting CO2 by shoving tubes up cows asses, and selling it as earth friendly CO2 for beer.. Hey, beer makes you fart anyways, right..

Wait, that was methane I think... not CO2.. Oh well.. I'll refill cigarette lighters then.. That way, as smokers are polluting the earth, they can balance it out by saving the earth by using recycled cow farts to light their cigarettes... I bet the guy at the LHBS will buy some.. He can light his peace pipe with it...

I can set up a booth at burning man..

Maybe I'll get a nobel prize or something.. Can't wait till this stock goes public...... Easy street, here I come!

Woo who!

 

[Hermit]

Has anyone else heard about the Earths ability to draw energy from an object that is in direct contact with the ground before? My local brew shop owner suggests placing your fermenters on wood planks or some other item in order to separate the fermenter from the ground. He claims that the earth naturally draws energy into itself and it will draw energy from anything in contact with the ground. The wood planks are to separate the fermenter and earth and this will keep your yeast safe and active during fermentation. Anyone else do this/hear about this before? Or is my brew store owner crazy?

The explanation is crazy but those suggesting that he is talking about heat are probably right on the money. Before I had a fermentation chamber I used the concrete floor in my basement to help control my fermentation temperature. You can use this too good effect under the correct circumstances. "He claims that the earth naturally draws energy into itself and it will draw energy from anything in contact with the ground." Actually, drop an ice cube on your basement floor and energy is more likely to go from the ground to the cube. I'm sure he just had trouble properly understanding Steven Hawkins speech synthesizer while he was attending Cambridge University. :rockin:

 

[r8rphan]

I'm sure he just had trouble properly understanding Steven Hawkins speech synthesizer while he was attending Cambridge University. :rockin:

Selling LSD and pot at the frat house doesn't qualify as 'attending!'

 

[dfc]

The only thing even remotely similar to this that I know of is the fact that if you sit a car battery on concrete it will lose it's charge. I however am no hippie.

 

[lumpher]

AHA!!!! i knew better!!! i always keep my boys... car, truck, or any other kind... above ground. that water gets cold and deep

 

[VegasBrew]

That was common myth regarding car batterys as well...in fact a warm battery will have more bower than a cold battery and putting a battery on wood insulates it from the cold. Here is another battery tid bit, if it is reeeaaly cold out and your car turns over slow....bring it in the house and put it by the heater for an hour....it will bring new life to a cold battery, doesn`t work if it is dead though, hehe!

VB

 

[dfc]

Ok, I hate hippies. Stupid grrrrrrr makes me so frustrated.

Enough! Deep breaths Cartman...

I throw this in the bin with magnetic bracelets, homeopathy, raw food diets and ether science as stuff that I wish I'd never heard of.

You don't like sushi?