A great idea if you want to run your lathe in a blackout.

[tinytim1458]

http://www.gekgasifier.com/

www.gekgasifier.com/products/product-overview

www.lowtechmagazine.be/2010/01/houtgas- ... autos.html

http://www.gekgasifier.com/info/openhouse_workshops


A good idea for the future if you want to fun your lathe, Woodwork shop or house if we have blackouts or energy shortages out you live out in the sticks, an alternative to having to run on a petrol generator.
Mind you could make you carbon neutral but how long you would have to run it to make it pay for itself.
Could also run a car on this one day maybe.
But a great idea just have to wait until they become affordable for the ordinary person, unless you can make your own from their kit that would bring down the costs to £5000 or you can make your own for less if you want the free plans.
What do you think?
Back to the future anyone

 

[John Brown]

If you live out in the sticks, why not use them to run your gasifier?

 

[bellringer]

you could just buy a diesel generator

 

[Graham Orm]

It's a rocket stove. This is the one I built last winter, it's ready for installation now and will heat my workshop this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI_n6Nr_LsU
It uses a third of the wood a wood burner uses and heats the top of the cylinder to over 400deg. It is also completely smokeless.