Spent a goodly part of today out at the farm playing Energy Hero where we ran our second generation gasifier for about 3 hours. We have the design of the system to a point now that we felt ready to start tracking some temperatures and taking data on the fuel consumed per hour and such.
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We are actively looking in to designing a Community Supported Energy system here in JEfferson County Wisconsin based on a wood chip gasifier powering a small co-gen unit providing roughly 30,000 kWh of electricity and enough BTU’s to heat 10,000 gallons of water for tilapia aquaponics similar to what Growing Power of Milwaukee is doing. [...]
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For reasons I am do not entirely understand, I am blessed with an obscene amount of energy tonight (despite leading a tour for 22 at our home yesterday and installing a 140 sq ft rain garden today), so I am whipping up a 5000 word section on Wood Chip Gasifiers. We brought our [...]
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This past weekend the crew met again to assemble the disparate parts of our gasifier and do a trail run. Not only did no one blow up, but we succeeded in producing and burning hydrogen! If a bunch of chumps (ok we had 2 engineers)from WI can do this, [...]
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