[AT] OT Gasifiers

[Mark Greer]

http://www.woodgas.net/files/FEMA%20emergency%20gassifer.pdf
This is a link to the FEMA manual for anyone interested. I'm thinking that a 
butt buggy powered by this method would be a real conversation piece at 
tractor shows......
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:53 AM
Subject: [AT] OT Gasifiers


>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