[AT] Gasifier comments - re messages from Saturday

[charlie hill]

Here are some links you might be interested in:

http://www.gekgasifier.com/gasification-store/gasifier-genset-skids/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyazgRBtq8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLu3h5SkXM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLC2vnQh67E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpXIsijbRnE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wmGgxrHAp0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27xDtXzjogk

I found several of these while looking for the last one.  They pretty well 
show the range of the technology.  It has gotten pretty sophisticated.
In that last video, if I understand the guy correctly he has coverted his 
dairy farm to run on a gasifier fired with round bales and has gone from 
30,000 liters of oil per year to 500 round bales per year.  He says a round 
bale = 140 liters of oil.

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From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:18 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: [AT] Gasifier comments - re messages from Saturday

> Wood Gasifiers were the technology that allowed Germany to run civilian
> engines during the latter parts of WWII. They were common in eastern 
> Europe
> and Russia during the same time period because of the petroleum situation
> then. Few people today think about the reason why Germany and Romania were
> allies or Japan tried to take over Indonesia and South East Asia - Oil! In
> Germany's case they had no domestic petroleum sources and got all of their
> oil from Romania and the middle east. Russia had petroleum resources even
> then and that was one of the factors that drove Hitler to invade Russia. 
> It
> is unclear whether his motivations there were a major factor or not, but 
> it
> was a factor.
>     In Japan's case, they also had to import the petroleum. At the time
> there was little production in NE Asia (only Sakhalin that was disputed 
> with
> Russia) at all and there were no Siberian fields like now. Manchuria in
> China was taken over for natural resources and the factories that Japanese
> companies had built there.
>            Grant Brians
>            Hollister,California
>            Vegetable, Nuts and Fruit farmer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 12:37 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] WooHoo
>
>
> Mark I spent a bunch of time last year reading up on Gasifiers.  That is
> promising technology if and when it gets to the point that fuel is
> unavailable or too expensive.
> Even FEMA has a site telling how to build and use gasifiers.
>
> Charlie Hill
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Mark Greer" <markagreer at embarqmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 11:55 AM
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> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] WooHoo
>
>> Post it again. I just ran into a guy who is building a hydrogen generator
>> system to use on his truck to increase fuel mileage. Looks interesting. I
>> also have a friend from church who is looking into a wood gasifier system
>> that is a 10kw power generator.
>> http://www.gekgasifier.com/reactor-options/imbert-downdraft/
>> Mark
>>
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