Electric Power from Wood Gasification Furnace - or - Cogeneration in the Basement

No prob. It is a tad off the main topic but I think the principals apply...

This fellow, Ken Boak (in England), has been doing some really interesting things-

http://www.powercubes.com/listers_12.html

sparke said:

I have not read this whole thread so pardon me if I re-post some info. The technology of using wood gas to run internal combustion engines has been around since WW2. I have been studying this for a while.

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Before that even. This book refers to an engine in England of greater then 400HP running on producer gas in 1900. Most likely using coal but the operating priciples are the same.
http://books.google.com/books?id=15TNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA278

I have seen info from Paxman engines where they would set the system up to work with whatever you had available for cheap fuel "wood refuse, tan bark refuse, cocoanut shells, chips, shavings".
http://www.paxmanhistory.org.uk/suctngas.htm