Garage for Humster.

[MrMarty51]

.There is no groundwater, once there was a flood from melt water when there were no concrete walls, and a lake from melted snow accumulated near the garage. Now all the low areas around the garage are filled up, melt water does not accumulate and water does not flow into the basement. In 3 years, no more groundwater. In the future, when I make a concrete floor in the basement, just in case, you can dig a basement in the basement, use it as an emergency water discharge tank, and install a drainage pump there. If groundwater suddenly appears.

I knocked a hole in the concrete basement floor under My house.
I got one of those automatic submersible pumps that has a float switch and set it in a smallish size animal watering bucket. One big enough for the pump to set nicely in. And the bucket and pump sets in that hole. I also drilled some one inch holes near the top of the bucket to make sure that any water that would surround the bucket would be sure to flow into the bucket.
I hooked that pump to the city sewer pipe with a check valve between the pump and where the pipe makes an EL into the main 3” sewer pipe.
That bucket is the lowest place in the basement. It has yet to be tested under real life circumstances and I hope it never is.
Also known as a sump pump.

 

[Will L.]

Make it a periodic test- they fail just sitting over time. Critical infrastructure requires testing them every three months.

 

[MrMarty51]

Make it a periodic test- they fail just sitting over time. Critical infrastructure requires testing them every three months.

I’ll pack down a five gallon bucket of water and give it a test run.
Probably be better with a hose but I have no way to do a hookup down in that hole.
A spigot adapter and hook to that but thats a lot of work in itself.

 

[SnowDrift]

What's a sump pump?

 

[denata]

For pumping dirty water, they are usually immersed in water and often have an automatic switch.

 

[MrMarty51]

Sump is most often a hole into the ground, usually has some kind of walls and a floor of sorts. A place where water or liquids collect and then is pumped out with some sort of a pump.

 

[SnowDrift]

I was kidding on the sump pump. Our basement is high and dry due to natural drainage.

 

[denata]

I continue to dig into the depths of the planet

 

[n8in8or]

I've never dug coal...... is that easier or harder than the other materials you've dug through?

 

[denata]

Coal is much softer than rocky soil; the pick sticks into it like cheese.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Now you have a built in heat source. Lol

 

[Will L.]

Nice find!
We know ya have a geiger counter- give it a check.
Your description of being sticky but being that dark and having both black and grey layers (looks like in video anyways) is a conundrum to many “experts”
Get a sample test of carbon count per million mass and I bet you find yours is yet another example of inbetween all four transitions that are shown as the original model how coal is formed.
Doing a btuh measurement (if not radioactive) really throws the specialists for a loop on that type because if it is what I think it is- it has second highest btu content and highest carbon count while showing really high carbon 14 structure.

 

[denata]

Radiation is within safe limits. The spectrograph did not detect any dangerous elements within an hour. There is no obvious radioactive decay. I’ll leave it spectrograph turned on for a few days, I’ll collect statistics and it will be possible to take a closer look at the spectrum of radioactive elements in coal.

 

[Will L.]

Thought exercise I’m stuck in involves the coal and your find is a glaring example of the problem.
Half life of coal and presence of carbon 14 in it indicates an issue in either age of coal, as well as hydrocarbon based crude oil. Or the method by which we date everything that once was alive: based on carbon 14 dating.

Here is the shortest video I could find covering what I am getting at. I don’t know the guy in the video, his views, if I agree or disagree with him on creation. I just searched the topic of carbon 14 & coal, found this one.
Few comments in it I -glanced and replied to one. It will explain why the radioactive bit.

 

[denata]

The coals were formed a really long time ago, and the radiocarbon dating method does not work for such long periods of time.

The spectrograph worked for 4 hours. Discovered a distinct peak of Europium 152, quite a bit, only 14 decays in 4 hours. This element is artificial, formed during accidents and nuclear tests. Tomorrow I'll go to the garage and take a log file; the spectra of the elements should become even more pronounced. In any case, the radiation is very insignificant. I am interested in knowing the specific elements that give background radiation.

 

[denata]

After 30 hours, the spectrum became more distinct. There is one peak of Europium152, but no other peaks at other energy levels. I assume that the spectrograph needs to be calibrated. he lies 50 kev downwards. If this is so, then this peak does not belong to Europium 152, but to potassium K40 (second photo). And this is much closer to the truth because K40 isotope is much more abundant in soil and coal.
Because K40 has a half-life of billions of years, it is used in radioisotope dating when we are talking about hundreds of minions of years. All the Argon we use is a decay product of K40. And by the ratio of K40 and Argon in the sample under study, one can determine how old it is.

 

[denata]

I dug up about 7 tons of soil, 350 buckets of soil each bucket weighs 20 kg (44 lb)., deepened 1/4 of the basement area to a depth of 2 feet, garage basement area 355 sq. ft. (33 sq.m.)

 

[denata]

I checked the spectrograph with the isotope Americium Am241. It turned out that the spectrograph was a little out of tune.

 

[denata]

If anyone is interested in how radioactive Americium 241.

 

[MrMarty51]

If anyone is interested in how radioactive Americium 241.

I dont understand any of it but it shore looks cool on paper and in video.
Love the sound.