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  • From: Johnathan Yelenick <yelenick AT riseup.net>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] wood gassifiers for pto
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:56:26 -0600

http://www.gekgasifier.com

wow. recent casual net surfing yielded some interesting thoughts. Check out this open source firm. Cool, cool stuff.

Use a g.e.k. to fuel an engine that's coupled to a pto, which employs the wood chipper used to chip your gek's fuel substrate.
Harvest the created biochar from the g.e.k. and put the biochar in the field shelterbelt coppice/pollard 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 and de facto global carbon sink.

Once a deep anthropic histosol is developed in the coppice food forest shelterbelt, the coppice/pollard should be producing like crazy providing more than enough biochar substrate, which then may go onto crop fields, which then produce like crazy (because of increased CEC, increased soil water holding capacity, and decreased bulk density) - 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 and quantity of the compared biochar between both units.

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




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