wood gasification boiler

 looking for feedback:

15deg f here.... thinking an outdoor
wood burner plumbed to garage might be nice.
anyone have experience with gasification
style wood burners vs. conventional....
i had a double barrel wood burner in the 80's
worked nice when lit (had to strip to tee
shirt & shorts) but it would need re stocked
often... guessing newer units with controlled burn
might supplement house and workshop.

it would make wrenching a tad nicer to be toasty
without running the electric heaters.
john

 
Rocket City Rednecks on Nat Geo did a nice piece on taking a mobile
home of the grid and they made one.

 On 2/14/2012 8:55 AM, Phil Thomas wrote:

don't do TV had too look up those folks,
they sound funny. nat geo online only had
the shopping cart/charger running on alcohol.
nothing on the wood burner.

i like the idea of using less wood and less
smoke, not sure if the gasifier units require
more baby sitting to work right... the ads
make it look as easy as a "sham wow" yet
i remain a tad skeptical.
whoa.. found this while searching
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Adler_Diplomat_3_GS_mit_Holzgasgenerator-hinten_rechts.JPG

it looks a bit heavy to mount on a gasgas, i wonder
if the xr600 frame would notice the added weight?

john

 
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  I remember an old war movie, where the hero moved a bunch of nuns
and orphans out of harms way in an old school bus run on either
fermented coconuts or gas from burning coconut husks. (It was a long
time ago when I saw the movie, but the arrangement on the rear of the
bus looked similar to the linked photo.)

  Speaking of  getting off the energy grid, I read some stuff on a
magnetic motor that is supposed to produce more electricity than is
used.  The Ho Jo motor.
Here are some links:
US Patent office, three patents:
#1.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&lP&s1=5,402,021.PN.&OS=PN/5,402,021&RS=PN/5,402,021
#2.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&lP&s1=4,877,983.PN.&OS=PN/4,877,983&RS=PN/4,877,983
#3.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&lP&s1=4,151,431.PN.&OS=PN/4,151,431&RS=PN/4,151,431

The advertizer's spiel, it's a long winded video trying to sell the
blueprints for $50:
http://www.hojomotor.com/

  Let me know what you find out, and if you look at the Ho Jo motor,
what you think.

Good Riding, Trail Working, and Money Saving to You!
Jim


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Ho Jo No No.

There is some low energy nuclear reaction stuff that *might* be real,
we'll see.

http://www.lenr-canr.org/  and such.