[oiless]

The technology works, unfortunately I think it's one of those things where more has been forgotten than is presently known.
Certainly it's not one of those things where every vehicle can be run on it, there is not enough wood in the world. It is something that can be done when you need to run an internal combustion engine and there is no other way to do it.
Here's what one fellow did, and his many problems:
Pope woodgas
and:
stationary engine

There's quite a bit of info on the web.

[careinke]

FEMA has plans for a wood gas generator. Here is a link for the PDF document

Wood gas generator

Cliff(Start a rEVOLution, grow a garden)

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

The FEMA gasifier is pretty much standard. Most of the proponents of gasifier systems say there isn't really much you can do to tweak the system. they jsut work.

I've been on a gasifier forum for a couple years now and the numbers I've seen them run makes it more than economical as for $150/cord, if done right you can get approx 0.15$a km/. Where the technology falls down is that you only get 40%-50% of your normal power.

[yesplease]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', 'M')ost of the price of a cord of wood is the labor to cut it and the transportation to where it is needed. Even if you own the trees someone, yourself or someone you hired has to do the work. To think that any piece of wood is free when you put it into the stove or the gassafier is wrong and the current market price is a fair estimate of the time and effort required to obtain it at the point of use. I wont charge myself for my standing wood but my back muscles will charge me dearly for every cord.

[IslandCrow]

biofuels ---how to make them and use them

If you scroll about halfway down you will get to to a section entitled:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ood Gas for Internal Combustion Engines

Please be careful!! -- There is a Carbon Monoxide poisoning hazard with all wood gasifiers

[oiless]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'T')he FEMA gasifier is pretty much standard. Most of the proponents of gasifier systems say there isn't really much you can do to tweak the system. they jsut work.

I've been on a gasifier forum for a couple years now and the numbers I've seen them run makes it more than economical as for $150/cord, if done right you can get approx 0.15$a km/. Where the technology falls down is that you only get 40%-50% of your normal power.

[smallpoxgirl]

Anybody know what the tax implications of this are? I know technically you're supposed to pay fuel tax on home-made biodiesel. You can't easily apply a per-gallon tax to wood though.

[yesplease]

Technically, you have to pay the Federal road tax through the IRS, but while you're at it you can also get a $1/gallon tax credit from running WVO or the 50c/gallon tax credit for running an alternative fuel.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')xtension of Biodiesel Production Tax Credit; Extension and Modification of Renewable Diesel Tax Credit. The bill extends the $1.00 per gallon production tax credit for biodiesel and the 10¢/gallon credit for small biodiesel producers through 2009. The bill also extends the $1.00 per gallon production tax credit for diesel fuel created from biomass. The bill eliminates the current-law disparity in credit for biodiesel and agri-biodiesel, and eliminates the requirement that renewable diesel fuel must be produced using a thermal depolymerization process. As a result, the credit will be available for any diesel fuel created from biomass without regard to the process used, so long as the fuel is usable as home heating oil, as a fuel in vehicles, or as aviation jet fuel. Diesel fuel created by co-processing biomass with other feedstocks (e.g., petroleum) will be eligible for the 50¢/gallon tax credit for alternative fuels. Biodiesel imported and sold for export will not be eligible for the credit effective May 15, 2008. The estimated cost of this proposal is $451 million over 10 years.