[AT] OT Gasifiers

[charliehill]

I was having a conversation off list with Ralph about gasifiers.  Does 
anyone on the list have any experience with them?  FEMA put out a paper in 
the 90's telling how to make small scale units for home or farm use.  They 
seem simple enough to build and the result is free energy if you have some 
bio-mass for fuel.  It seems to me like corn stalks or Ralphs flax straw 
would work just fine.  You might have to run it through a chopper or  hammer 
mill first.  Anyone ever tried to build one?

Charlie