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On Fri, 5 May 2017 23:18:48 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
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Model aircraft turbines can be had BUT they are not very efficient.

And that's the problem. To turn that gas at 3p/kwh into electricity at
4p/kwh which is what a big CCGT plant does you need....well a big ccgt
plant!


15 years ago we ran a LS60 apu on woodgas briefly, it worked but my
colleague estimated a gas turbine would not be viable as a genrator
prime mover less than 300kW(e)

AJH