but I had never heard of it until recently, so I thought I would share.A fairly simple example of a wood gasifier would be a 55 gallon drum that you can put wood in and burn to create heat. When your drum is nice and hot, another metal container (such as a metal 5 gal bucket) with a pipe coming out of the lid can be filled with wood chips and set in the fire.
Basically the heat causes the wood in the inner container to start breaking down into gas, but because there is not enough oxygen in the container to sustain combustion, a combustible gas is expelled from the pipe. It can be piped directly to the intake of carbureted engines and they will run completely off of wood gas!
There are ways to clean the output to get the carbon and other stuff out of it before it is run through an engine, but I have not looked into it enough yet to describe.
This method could be used to run small engines such as a lawn mower, which in turn could run an alternator with a belt to make a small generator! might even be possible to run it through an air compressor into LP bottles or something for storage and use on engines like a car that would use the wood gas faster that the gasifier could create it.
