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> Morning group, I have been investigating wood gas and wondered if anyone

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> tried
> running a small gasline generator on wood gas.
> I have an old propane powered Onin about 10 kw. that I would like to run

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> W.G.
> If anyone has any input it would be much appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
> Paul from Milton

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> Morning group, I have been investigating wood gas and wondered if anyone

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> tried
> running a small gasline generator on wood gas.
> I have an old propane powered Onin about 10 kw. that I would like to run

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> W.G.
> If anyone has any input it would be much appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
> Paul from Milton
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> "PCK" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> news:XcCdnRSeLoV_5UbfRVn-jg@look.ca...
> had
> on
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> I have a 5 kw gasoline powered generator (Tecumseh 10 hp) that I'm
> planning
> on trying to run from wood gas. It it doesn't ruin the engine (hard to
> tell
> with a Tecumseh) then I'll try running it on a Honda engine.
>
> You've probably already seen these sites, but here they are anyway:
>
> http://www.gengas.nu/byggbes/index.shtml
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> http://mitglied.lycos.de/cturare/gas.htm
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> http://www.motherearthnews.com/libr.../Wood_Gas_Updat
> e
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> http://www.windward.org/notes/notes63/wal63_b.htm
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> http://highforest.tripod.com/woodgas/woodgas.html
>
> http://www.woodgas.com/
>
> http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/producer/
>
> http://www.green-trust.org/woodgas.htm
>
> http://www.fao.org/documents/show_c...512E/T0512e0x.h
> tm
>
> One source I read said that the internal combustion engine was originally
> designed and built to run with wood gas. As you probably know they were
> used extensively in Europe during WWII so it must work pretty well.
> Recent
> studies in undeveloped countries have shown wood gas for production of
> electricity to be cost effective. The one thing that really bothers me is
> that during WWII if there was no oil available to make gasoline how did
> they
> change the oil in their engines? I can find no mention of it.
>
> I'm also considering using wood gas for heating and cooking, either
> directly
> or indirectly. I have a substantial grove of oak trees plus a lot of
> scrap
> wood chips leftover from the work I do.
>
> Right now my biggest obstacle is finding junk to build it out of. There
> don't seem to any scrap metal yards around where I live. I was thinking
> of
> using two 30 gallon steel drums to build a gasifier to run a 10 hp
> electric
> generator. Also I will need to learn how to weld.
>