https://www.instructables.com/Charcoal-Fire-Powered-Generator
cflorer9 years ago
When it comes to material, if it burns or rots, you can make fuel from it. I was part of a project where we generated 1 megawatt of power from human waste (poop power). We were also looking at a large scale municipal waste project that would make power from construction wood waste, and yard waste.
BruceD209 years ago
After following this type of subject for years- I don’t know why I never made the obvious and plain connection to just using charcoal. Wood gas on a large scale can be a real hassle with the filtering, cooling and removal of tar and gook created by raw green biomass. This way you benefit from several uses of the same source materials for heating and whatever, then using the charcoal in the gasifier. I have also found on Google Books that several old 1900’s book on Town Gas and Gasification can be downloaded and are a written in plain simple terms. These books allow us to rediscover what has been used in times past to have a comfortable living with simple, manageable tech.
Try these titles- (look to the right for the Gear Icon- Many can be downloaded in PDF!)
https://books.google.com/books?id=qb5LAAAAIAAJ&pg=…
Also- go to Google Books and search for “Producer Gas” It will really open your eyes to old tech. Many of these great books can be downloaded as well!
Thanks again!
loachridge9 years ago
Great work on re-working history.
For those who think “impractical” or the like. I have a 23 foot diameter 1500 degree gasifier at work running a high pressure boiler for our steam turbine to generate the electric for the campus.
Oh, yeah. It was built by government. To lower our carbon footprint.