Arafoo Otoko no Isekai Tsuuhan Seikatsu

Episode 37: Securing fuel for heavy equipment

Almost done working around the house.

It's been about half a month since I got here, but nothing's wrong.

The view is good, and the sunset in the lake is beautiful, so there's nothing to say.

Unlike in the previous forest, the sun is good, so the fields are growing well. There's plenty of water.

The rest is...

Should we attack the refining of biodiesel fuel?

If this is successful, 1/10 of the price of salad oil can be used for diesel fuel, making heavy equipment easier to use at once.

We can live without heavy machinery, but the power of machinery is 100 manpower. I have a sharp tool of civilization, so I don't have to use it.

Since dangerous experiments are carried out first, a laboratory is to be set aside from the house.

Next is the quarantine space. It's hard when curious anemones and forest cats come when you're playing with drugs.

And it's going to take a little time to react to make biodiesel fuel. We also need a place to put him.

Then I want a cabin with a roof.

If you search Shangri-La, you'll find a cabin with no windows for 35,000 yen. This is also an assembly kit.

But it's much easier than the house I built. The size is about 2m x 2.5m, and metal fittings are screwed onto the wood.

Ask the powerful Murray to help and screw the fittings one after the other with an electric screwdriver.

Assemble the assembled frame to make the hut skeleton. You can then stick plywood on the walls and roofs and attach the door to the entrance.

Since ventilation is required during the experiment, holes are drilled without placing a plate on a part of the wall.

It's so easy - well, it's a free box made of plywood.

If you use it in earnest, you can put a waterproof sheet on the roof or wall and then put a tongue plate on it.

Once you make it and put it in the item BOX, there are many ways to use it. It can also be used as a simple accommodation.

It should be safer than a pelapella tent.

The assembly was completed in one day.

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--The next day.

As you begin your experiment, you should pay attention to Anemone and Murray during breakfast.

"I'm going to do a little dangerous magic experiment today, so stay away from the cabin."

Ja?

"We use poison."

"I'm scared...."

"So don't come any closer. Do you understand?"

"Mmm...."

Anemone looks familiar, but Murray seems more suspicious. We have to be careful.

Curiosity kills cats, but it's because they're cats.

After breakfast, clean up and buy pure white chemical protective clothing from Shangri-La. It costs 1,000 yen per sheet.

Pretty cheap, but all these protective clothes are disposable. Once the work is done, it will be processed.

In my case, you can pour it into the trash can on the status screen.

I'll try it on for now - it'll look like a futuristic person wearing a silver suit and a soup polish from the head.

Later, I bought a mask for organic gas - a set of goggles and masks for 1200 yen.

I also bought 6 replacement filters for 1100 yen each.

I'll try it all on - I've seen this look on TV before. It's the scene of the nuclear accident.

"This looks pretty hot."

If you wear rain wings, the inside gets wet and stuffy, but it seems like that.

Besides, there are no windows in the cabin that I built when I was working in a closed room. I think the windows will be installed on the back, but I decided to prioritize the work this time.

In the meantime, I don't know if I'll succeed unless I try.

"Hahaha! You look weird!

Murray was laughing with anger.

"Use these clothes to prevent poisoning. I'm fine with bees and armies. Maybe."

"Are the tentacles okay?

"Tentacles?"

"Uhh, it hurts so much when you get caught and stabbed."

"Well, maybe it's okay."

What, is that a monster too? Something like an ash chuck on land? Monsters are also very diverse.

Take off your protective clothing and align your equipment with Shangri-La.

Firstly, a stainless steel container with a large size of 65L costs 40,000 yen. Because alkaline chemicals are used, they corrode in ordinary iron and aluminum pots.

And alkaline chemicals - sodium hydroxide, 4500 yen at 2 kg.

There was a warning that a signature was required on the gift transfer form, but when I pressed the [Purchase] button, I was able to buy it normally.

And then there's methanol. 18L, or 2,700 yen in a can. You sell everything.

I have all the tools. But it would be too soon to synthesize in large quantities. First, we need to experiment with a small amount and gain experience.

Let's start with 1L.

Start the experiment by purchasing a small stainless steel container at Shangri-La.

First, buy a female cylinder and measure 200 cc of methanol, then add 3.5 g of sodium hydroxide to make a substance called sodium methoxide.

Looks like he's poisonous. The vapor emitted is also poisonous, so a gas mask is necessary.

But it doesn't dissolve inside, so it takes time - you might want to make yourself something to stir it up.

Maybe we should use the stirrer we use when mixing cement and mortar. If it turns too fast, you can use a general-purpose inverter.

Small inverters can be used for about 20,000 items sold in Shangri-La.

The inverter control, which is often referred to in appliances, is the AC frequency.

Simply put, there is a motor that rotates 50 revolutions per minute at home 100V 50Hz AC.

If you drop the AC frequency to 10 Hz with the inverter, you can drop it to 10 revolutions. Of course, it can be stopped at 0Hz.

When changing the voltage and controlling the rotation of the motor, it is discarding wasted energy as heat with resistance or slide duck transformer.

Without it, there will be no more waste. Dimensions that will save energy.

A little derailed, but the stainless steel container was heated by adding 1L of salad oil - canola oil.

The temperature seems to be around 50 degrees - when it warms up, add the sodium methoxide made earlier and stir.

Then, gradually, the red brown dryness hardens on the bottom of the stainless steel container.

"What are you doing?"

"Ah! Hey, I told you we're dealing with poison! Don't come any closer!

"Fugga! What's that smell? Is that a witch pot?

--The Witch's Pan. Sure, it might look that way from the edge. Strange to say.

This buildup at the bottom of the container. This is what gets in the way when you use vegetable oil for diesel engines - glycerin.

This supernatant, which separated the glycerin, became biodiesel fuel.

"I did it. It worked."

Did the experiment go well before you were happy? ― ― We need to try it on a diesel generator.

However, it is written in the book that it is better to mix two straw oils just in case.

It is cheap with 2 straps of oil. I bought it at Shangri-La - I measured the amount and put it in.

Before that, I took off my chemical suit and jumped into the river. My whole body is sweaty.

"Shit! It's hot!"

Cover your head with water. Do you burn the bath at night?

Remove the diesel generator from the item BOX and fill it with freshly made fuel while remaining wet.

Pull the decompressor and pull the recoil starter and the engine ran out of noise and white smoke

I feel like there's a little bit of white smoke.

It's working.

After all, the scent like tempura floats around.

"When I smelled this smell, I wanted to eat tempura. Would you like to tempura for dinner?"

I treated 1 L of oil this time, but if I multiply this by 50, I can treat 50 L of salad oil to make biodiesel fuel.

I also realized that I needed a lot of equipment.

But does it make sense to make biodiesel fuel with this much effort?

But it's fascinating that expensive fuel costs a tenth, because money is important. I spend a lot of money on that, but... it's a forward investment, a forward investment.

There are many things that the world has to try to solve, so it is important to try to do it for now.

Once you've gained your experience, some useful days will come. That's my policy.

I put my undressed chemical protective clothing into the trash can on the status screen as I strolled through my thoughts.

Are you sure you want to throw some terrible poison into this dumpster? If someone were to handle it on the other side of the screen, it would be a terrible thing...

Until now, I have thrown away garbage, waste liquid and all kinds of things, but I have never been warned.

I don't usually have that kind of precaution.

Perhaps my imagination is that it would be a sort of sci-fi chic treatment that would be dumped into subspace and decomposed into elementary particle levels.

Therefore, I think it is okay to throw away Sarin, Tabun, Soman and VX - maybe.

It's already getting dark in the area when I'm trying out the synthetic fuel. Is that all for today?

I want to take a bath today, so I also set fire to the drum bath.

The hot water for soup is boiled on fire, but today it is tempura, so the cassette stove is also served.

It is more convenient to use a cassette stove because it is difficult to adjust the thermal power in the case of fire or kado.

I put sesame oil in the pan and overheat it, but I personally like using sesame oil, but the disadvantage is that the oil is high.

Now, my clothes use eggs and flour, but I put mayonnaise in the flour to get rid of it here.

The contents of mayonnaise are also eggs, so it feels similar. And a little kelp on the hidden flavor.

And by adding mayonnaise, it will also add a little saltiness. You can eat it as it is, even if you don't need salt or an omentzuyu sauce.

While cooking, Murray and Anemone came out of the house.

"It smells good! What are you making?

It's tempura.

"Tempura?

Well, you've never eaten it. In the first place, there was no fried chicken in this world.

The tempura ingredients use vegetables from the former world. Vegetables in this world taste really bad, and I didn't eat them with salads or anything.

The habit of eating raw vegetables before that doesn't seem to be very common.

However, even strong vegetables such as wild plants are delicious when tempura is used, so I decided to try some kinds of fried vegetables in this world.

While cooking, Anemone sang along with Yumi Matsu's Chi Ooze soup.

When I cooked, I always sang, so I remembered.

"I got it! Now let's eat."

"Nyah!"

"Wow!

Everyone flocks to the dishes prepared at the table. Bread and soup are instant. And freshly made tempura.

It's subtle whether tempura suits bread or not - in other words, I don't think I've ever eaten bread with tempura in my former world.

"It's crisp, sweet and delicious!

Murray eats sweet potato tempura.

"It's so fragrant and delicious."

"Whoa! The vegetables I bought at the market would be delicious if they were tempura. Maybe the ac comes off. It might be popular if we feed them."

This is a pleasant miscalculation. Anemone and Murray are also delighted, so they should suit the tastes of the world's inhabitants.

Well, oil itself is expensive in this world, so it may be a little difficult to make it popular.

While everyone was having dinner, the temperature sensor buzzer installed in the bath rang.

"Did the bath boil? Murray, if you go in first, you'll run out of hot water, so go in last."

"Nya"

"Anemone, it's time to take a bath alone."

……

"You look sad again. You'd be ashamed to be naked in front of a man, wouldn't you?

"It's embarrassing, but... Kenichi is fine."

It's not a matter of good or bad. You think I'll forgive you if you look so sad?

But I forgive you! I'm sorry! It's twitching.

Take an LED light and take a bath with an anemone in the dark.

It is dark and invisible, but only the sound of the river and the sound of the waterfall can be heard. I don't care when I go in the house.

I'm totally out of this old world. A child ○ incident has occurred.

Incidentally, when I went to the public bath in the former world, there was a father who brought this kind of girl into the men's bath, but please stop.

Best regards,

The two of them were alternating in the drum bath and Murray came naked pretending to be their tails. Even though I'm naked, it doesn't look naked because I'm wearing fur.

"Anemone, tell me as soon as your head gets itchy."

"Yeah."

The lice on her head should have been eliminated, but it is possible that she will get it from somewhere.

"But if there's lice and fleas on the Beast, it's gonna be tough."

"It's already a nightmare!

"But sometimes you get hit by floor lice and fleas in the inn, right?

"There is! Sometimes I just walked out without staying!

According to Murray, the inn is a network of veterinarians, ranked by the reputation of Party A and Party B.

"It's a serious problem for the Beasts."

Exactly.

Everyone uses soap, washes their bodies, and finally sprinkles Murray with plenty of water and bubbles.

The jet heater was removed from the item BOX for use in Murray and Anemone.

I'd like to dig a ditch and let the bath drain into the river.

They are drying their hair and furs in the heat of the blast.

Then study with Anemone while warming your body so that it doesn't get cold.

Because I took a bath, Anemone fell asleep immediately.

I'll go to bed.

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The next day, I started making biodiesel fuel.

Approximate guidelines were obtained, so the fuel was synthesized after making a stirrer or the like.

The agitator used to agitate cement, etc., and the propeller for agitation was made of corrosion resistant stainless steel.

Stir it with your own wooden frame.

I used a general-purpose inverter for rotation control - I tried choosing M Ling.

Disconnect the power cable and peel off the vinyl sheath to connect each device.

The engine generator - inverter - agitator - is configured.

― ― Then, the 50 L canola oil was treated twice to obtain about 95 L of biodiesel fuel.

This will keep the fuel going for a while. The glycerin produced as a by-product goes straight to the trash can on the status screen.

I could make soap from glycerin, but I could buy as much soap as I wanted with Shangri-La... and I decided it was a useless gift.

Because it is organic, there is talk that it can be used for fertilizer.

However, I left the anemones completely behind because I was obsessed with purifying biodiesel fuel.

That makes her in a very bad mood.

"Hey, Anemone, get your mood back."

"I don't know"

I'll get back to you with a reply from her. [M]

"I'll buy you a new picture book. Come on."

Pickle and she reacted, but that didn't seem to work.

"Well, shall we go to the city of Astrantia?

"Really?!

"Really!

"Ah, it's time for Murray and Belle's prey to accumulate in the item BOX."

"Wow!

The weeping crow is already laughing. I'm still a kid.

For some reason, Murray is happy to be with us.

Register for the Astrantian Adventurer Alliance.

Commercial guilds - they don't do business in Astrantia, okay?

Only the city needs the permission of the Alliance to do business. You don't need Alliance permission to do business on the roadside or trade around the villages.

However, even in the provinces and on the roadside, we usually do business with an Alliance certificate, which gives customers more peace of mind.

The road to Astrantia passed by the cliff.

According to Murray, who walked around here, there are no monsters along the cliff.

Well, shall we go to Astrantia?