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  • From: Rob <becida AT comcast.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] tvo post- The cheapest solar collector to operate apr '00
  • Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:52:58 -0700

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Trees, especially eight tons per acre per year willow shoots that
require little processing to become woodgas. Forget the ethanol, forget
the biodiesel from intensively tilled field crops, keep methanol in mind
if your are oriented toward a cheaper than ethanol fuel that requires
lots of heavy metal, with the advantage of fairly high energy density
low cost liquid storage.

You aren't going to store woodgas, but it is easy to generate as
required by an engine---cheap engines by the millions in junkyards all
over the U.S.

Better engines for woodgas or steam are evolving, the improved Pegasus
Wankel, for example (click the Product, Reviews, Tech info on the left
side of the Home Page) http://www.pegasuspower.com/

You don't have to get this fancy to generate gas from any carbonaceous
source, and there is much government and private research in biomass gas
generators for small stationary engines and vehicles, but when you see
larger manufacturers coming on the scene, something is definitely afoot.

There are no panaceas, really large scale biomass consumption for energy
production could devastate forests as effectively as did the charcoal
production for the early steel business, but a renewable woodlot on a
homestead scale of fuel production would go a long way toward enhancing
the ideal of homestead self-sufficiency and independence from the
corporate spiderweb.

Anyway, here is one of the intermediate, not small, not big gasifiers
that might get rid of all that #$%^ chickenshit currently draining into
the Chesapeake. It could obviously be scaled up, and if the #$%^
industrial chicken and hog production isn't made to go away (the best
solution), at least the pollution could be reduced.
http://www.bgtechnologies.net/




  • [Homestead] tvo post- The cheapest solar collector to operate apr '00, Rob, 06/06/2007

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