spaco wrote in
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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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Dunno about NGs or electrical generation but the Aussies had cars (taxis)
powered this way back during WW2.

Perhaps there may be some archives in Oz that would have diagrams.

FWIW, there are a number of charcoal-makers that utilize the gasses
distilled from the wood to fuel the process.

It'd seem to me that the problem with electrical generation would be to
provide sufficient heat to keep the gas distillation process continuing
while also using the distilled gas for motor fuel.

It'd also require a large amount of wood...