Showing posts with label Wood-gas Generator to Power Your Truck. Show all posts
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5.15.2019
Off Grid in the City
Blog Series Off-Grid StLouis Style
This blog post will highlight how it all works together for getting Off-Grid StLouis Style without scrimping on the Must Haves of Hot Water, Heat, and Electricity.Highlighted in a few prior blog posts- burning wood can produce Hot Water From Your Wood Stove for Blazing Hot Showers (which works off the Stove Pipe of the Wood Burning Stove or fireplace). As well as how to Turn a wood stove into a fuel source for creating a propane type fuel source that will operate gasoline engines such as a generator (Gasifier).
Must Have 1] Hot Water
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This hot water heating system produces hot water that will stay warm up to 48 hours!
- Article Link: Three years ago, we were sitting in our cabins wondering how we could satisfy our addictions for hot baths and showers, without paying ridiculous prices for disappearing reserves of fossil fuels. Putting our talents together (one of us is a mechanical wizard and the other a Ph.D. chemist), we devised a homestead alternate energy system — based on the use of otherwise-wasted stovepipe heat — that's allowed us to take those hot baths. We call our system the Blazing Showers Stovepipe Hot Water Heater. See Build Tips here: https://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com/2010/02/hot-water-from-your-woodstove.html
Must Have 2] Heat Wood Stove
I have a buddy who is Off-Grid in the City! Here's what I've been helping him with. Double Row Stack. I haven't stacked this much wood in ages. #biomass It was all I could do to move the closest logs in the bottom left photo. We'll be building a Gasifer soon! pic.twitter.com/btW0251HIN— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) May 14, 2019
Must Have 3] Electricity
- Options
- Connected to the Grid
- Photovoltaic Solar System
- Batter Bank - Two Ways to Charge the Battery Bank. The obvious way is with the Photovoltaic System and the Second way is with the Gasifier Generator System.
- Gas or Gasifier Generator
- Energy Source: Biomass - Firewood Donated by the neighbor tree trimmers and upcycled from job sites.
— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) May 14, 2019this is similar to what we will be building.
Construction of a Simplified Wood Gas
Generator for Fueling Internal Combustion
Engines in a Petroleum Emergencyhttps://t.co/K1UDlesjE0 #Gasifer
How to build a "Wood Gasifier" from propane tanks, to power a "Tiny House"!
How to build a "Wood Gasifier" from propane tanks, to power a "Tiny House"!
This is how to build your own Wood Gas producing wood stove that can be used to run a vehicle or generator, this works for replacing propane in most standard propane appliances. This simple unit was made from three small propane tanks and scrap material.
We have also upgraded to 12volt LED wiring and lighting setup in a few spots of the home! A complete LED lighting system would reduce Electricity needs by 50%.
In upcoming blog posts, I will share how this process and system all work together and allows the Homeowner to live
Off-Grid StLouis Style!
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5.16.2010
Wood-gas Generator to Power Your Truck
If you have an older-model truck, a ready supply of firewood and a little ingenuity, you can build a wood-gas generator to run your truck.
I initially became interested in wood-powered vehicles as a kid when I saw an old World War II movie in which the hero escaped from invading Japanese forces in an old school bus powered by coconut shells. After that, if I came across any references to wood-powered vehicles, I read them. I even remember reading an article in MOTHER EARTH NEWS quite some time ago. (See the 1981 article, Wood Gas! Wood Gasification Powers this Truck.)
A couple of years ago, I bought a 1968 Chevrolet three-quarter-ton 4-wheel-drive pickup, along with a 1969 GMC three-quarter-ton 2-wheel-drive truck for parts. The GMC had a six-cylinder engine that was somewhat rusty, but still seemed to run OK. I thought, given the simplicity of its construction plus the generous engine compartment, it would be ideal for a wood-gas project.
Willie Hackett, the son of a friend of mine, did a small wood-gasifier project and put me in contact with Mike LaRosa through a wood-gas builder’s website. I built my gasifier based on one of Mike’s designs and was successful. The wood fuel is 2-inch-diameter lengths of hardwood limbs I gather in my woods and cut up with an old table saw. I dry the wood in the sun for a couple of weeks in a wheelbarrow with an old storm window on top of it. I also have used softwood scraps with similar effectiveness.
I have probably put about 500 miles on the truck running on wood. I have commuted 20 miles to work with it a number of times and taken many 10-mile trips.
I still am working out some bugs, such as reducing the amount of soot captured in the engine air cleaner, and eliminating a surging condition that is probably due to an air leak I haven’t found yet. The truck doesn’t have as much power with wood gas as it does with gasoline, but it will cruise at highway speeds and climb steep hills as long as I keep it revved up.
Rick Bates
Tully, New York
Scott's Contracting GREEN BUILDER, St Louis "Renewable Energy" Missouri.http://www.stlouisrenewableenergy.com, contact scotty@stlouisrenewableenergy.com for additional information
I initially became interested in wood-powered vehicles as a kid when I saw an old World War II movie in which the hero escaped from invading Japanese forces in an old school bus powered by coconut shells. After that, if I came across any references to wood-powered vehicles, I read them. I even remember reading an article in MOTHER EARTH NEWS quite some time ago. (See the 1981 article, Wood Gas! Wood Gasification Powers this Truck.)
A couple of years ago, I bought a 1968 Chevrolet three-quarter-ton 4-wheel-drive pickup, along with a 1969 GMC three-quarter-ton 2-wheel-drive truck for parts. The GMC had a six-cylinder engine that was somewhat rusty, but still seemed to run OK. I thought, given the simplicity of its construction plus the generous engine compartment, it would be ideal for a wood-gas project.
Willie Hackett, the son of a friend of mine, did a small wood-gasifier project and put me in contact with Mike LaRosa through a wood-gas builder’s website. I built my gasifier based on one of Mike’s designs and was successful. The wood fuel is 2-inch-diameter lengths of hardwood limbs I gather in my woods and cut up with an old table saw. I dry the wood in the sun for a couple of weeks in a wheelbarrow with an old storm window on top of it. I also have used softwood scraps with similar effectiveness.
I have probably put about 500 miles on the truck running on wood. I have commuted 20 miles to work with it a number of times and taken many 10-mile trips.
I still am working out some bugs, such as reducing the amount of soot captured in the engine air cleaner, and eliminating a surging condition that is probably due to an air leak I haven’t found yet. The truck doesn’t have as much power with wood gas as it does with gasoline, but it will cruise at highway speeds and climb steep hills as long as I keep it revved up.
Rick Bates
Tully, New York
Scott's Contracting GREEN BUILDER, St Louis "Renewable Energy" Missouri.http://www.stlouisrenewableenergy.com, contact scotty@stlouisrenewableenergy.com for additional information
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