permaculture

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We have our own design of a gasifier which is currently in two  
configurations. One is to generate heat and can use a wide variety of solid  
fuels. We have 
gasified dry and green wood, sawdust, wood shavings, rice hulls,  beef 
manure, poultry litter, baled newspapers, magazines, our office trash,  etc.  
In its 
current size it produces about 500,000 BTU per hour.
 
The other configuration is intended to operate an internal combustion  engine 
(ICE) and, therefore, requires not only dry fuel but also gas cleaning  
systems to provide clean gas to the engine. We use it to produce 10KW of  
electrical power but could just as easily produce 30KW.  We use a 4cyl  Isuzu 
engine.
 
The basic design can be found online.  We only added some  sophistication.  
So this can be done by you as well.
 
Neal in KY



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