spaco wrote:

Is there any interest in wood gas cogeneration of electricity on this
newsgroup? That's where you cook wood and use the combustible part of
the gases to run an internal combustion engine to make electricity.

Is there any ng of this type around?

Pete Stanaitis
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Sure, go for it. I notice when I make charcoal by filling two 3# coffee
cans with wood bits, hammering one over the other, and poking a few holes in
the cans, an impressive amount of gas is liberated while cooking away over a
small fire.

http://garage-machinist.com/usenet/rcm/charcoal.jpg

Not terribly efficent but on a fall day, a few brews in hand it was nice to
sit by the warm fire and make some charcoal for heat treating experiments.

This does seem like something best done in winter were you get both heat and
combustable gas.

Wes
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