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

Get Hot Water from Your Woodstove: The Blazing Showers Stovepipe Water Heater

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.  

this 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

— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) May 14, 2019

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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promising technology which converts the energy of biomass

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Due to the threat of climate change, the need to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases and with increasing oil prices there is need for increasing the use of biomass in energy production.

Pelleting is a promising technology which converts the energy of biomass into a more useful form through densification in order to ease handling, storage and transport.

This paper presents some aspects on the types of biomass that care used worlwide for the production of pellets and the current status of pellets production in Romania.

Also, there are presented some of the methods used for the measuring of pellets durability and the influence of some factors (such as: particle size, forming temperature, moisture content, bulk density) on the durability of pellets obtained from different types of biomass, since durability is considered a measure of pellet quality.

A REVIEW ON THE DURABILITY OF BIOMASS PELLETS (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304996695_A_REVIEW_ON_THE_DURABILITY_OF_BIOMASS_PELLETS [accessed Sep 25, 2017].