Appropriate Technology

[Johnathan Yelenick <yelenick AT riseup.net>]

http://www.gekgasifier.com

wow. the recent thread piqued my interest and had me surfing all over 
the net.  Check out this open source firm. Cool, cool stuff.

Use a g.e.k. to fuel a coupled engine that's coupled to a pto, which 
employs the wood chipper used to chip your fuel substrate.
Harvest the created biochar from the g.e.k. and put the biochar in the 
field shelterbelt coppice stand of Robina pseudoacacia and Quercus 
macrocarpa you established with an EQUIP-Organic Grant you won from the 
Natural Resource Conservation Service :) ...a shelterbelt-stand that 
serves as the substrate source for the gek.

Once a deep anthropic histosol is developed in the coppice food forest 
shelterbelt, the coppice should be producing like crazy providing more 
than enough biochar substrate, which then may go onto crop fields, which 
then produce like crazy - bettering the quality of life for everyone in 
the community and integrating the bioregion ecologically.

Seems, naturally, like a self-enhancing cycle.  :)


There is this other local firm here in the Denver area that's making 
biochar machines too. But theirs are a little more pricey. 
http://www.biocharengineering.com/ How do you think these firms' 
products compare?  I'm especially interested in the quality of the biochar.

looks like the biocharengineering unit doesn't capture the syngas or 
"woodgas" for mechanical work as the gek does.

Cheers,
Johnathan
Blacktail Farm
South Platte River Watershed