http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas

Look at that old ford I don't know if I want a boiler next to my face but it
is another option and seem easier than getting used veggie oil!!
I like that homemade snorkel cold air intake!! I wonder what that second
radiator on there is from look at the caps.

 

Sounds complicated...

 

the Germans used it in ww2 and it didn't work so well.

 

Oh gosh... I can just hear all the greenies screaming now... you're destroying the forests!!!! lol.

 

Bottom line:
We are hooked on energy the way a junkie has to fix heroin.
The entire western economy cannot survive without it and the eastern countries are increasing their "fix" daily.
We need fusion nuclear to happen soon!
A professor at Penn State University claimed to me that it was "only" 15-20 years away.
The old saying states that necessity is the mother of invention, so I wonder if, as the rate of necessity increases, the rate of research will increase also.
Not so, from what I have read so far.

 

Yep - just what we need! "MISTER FUSION"




Chuck whatever trash you've got into it, and GO!

(The energy consortiums will never allow it...)

 

Yes, but where are we going to get reliable flux capacitors from?

 

*shrugs*

DUPONT, where else?

Oh - silly me.

SONY

 

Just remember, Mr fusion only powered the flux capacitors, it didnt power the engine!!

 

Back on topic...

There is a small East-Texas, river-boat, antebellum town on the edge of Caddo Lake/Red River basin called Jefferson. (Think Natchez Ms, or French Qtr, N.O. if you're familiar with them.)

Anyway on the corners of some of the streets are these iron pot/post looking contraptions that belong to the original gas lighting system that the city used. There was a central production plant that used "pine knots" & the stump material from cypress trees that were pulled up during dredging operations to keep the river & port clear along with the ones pulled up during agricultural ops. The material was "cooked" & the resulting gas was piped throughout the town. This system stayed in operations till, I think, till the early part of the 20th century when cheap electricity made it cost/labor ineffective.

Now think about it, While most leftover material from wood/lumber production is used, the stumps left over after tree cutting are still bulldozed into a pile & burned or left in the ground to rot.

Since our need for wood products isn't going to end anytime soon, can you imagine a system using solar power to cook, process & filter "gas"? This would be a lot more "eco-friendly" than some of our current efforts to wean ourselves off of mid-east petroleum.

 

I worked for a site development company and they usually buried the trees from the
lots only the pine trees would be picked up for processing, Cypress, big oaks, turkey
oaks, palmettos, palms woulkd all be broken up and mostly buried until they got
caught then I had to bring them to the owners property where he would burn them
(illegaly) then when he got busted for that he started burying them there then ran
out of space, SO I would bring them to the sand mine and they would collect them
and eventually have a big chopper come in and mulch them up. Well they had a big
pile of basically useless mulch since they didn't try split it up and at least make one
pile of cypress mulch(which I suggested) it is bug resistant and $$. So they had this
huge pile and I told him you better turn that pile every now and then, after a while
it started stinkin and smelling sweet from about a 100yds about 20 days after that
day it caught fire because it was making wood alcohol and all the heat inside. The
fire department came and sprayed a bunch of water on it but they gave up since it
just turned to steam, It burned for a long time finally they brought in a track hoe to
dig into it and spread it around and it still continued to burn for days!! Now all those
btus that were wasted couldv'e been used to fire a boiler for steam generation or to
make that fuel. And this happens all over this state there is no real places that utilize
the wood (except pine) and it is just buried or burnt and then when they burn it they
just leave it there or bury the ash instead of spreading it around for fertilizer at least!!