wood gasifier - wood gas - free energy

[tucsonpersonified]

For the 41 seconds I could take your video skills it looked good.

[Kanoee64]

I'm just waiting to see someone running a wood chipper from a gasifiction unit like this one. I'd like to see if they will be able to chip two or three times the amount of wood they consume?

[centripidal]

@Kanoee64 hey thanks for your comment . you could surely run it like that . the consumption is fairy lower than what you would expect , the volume just depends on what size engine your runnig. and you would produce probably 20 -30 more chips than what yor using if not more , i have a tree busines and my chipper puts out a lot of chips fast

[obewong]

@bobsmedoggy ha! thanks, *comment deleted*

[breckandy]

Looks like a 5 gallon wet vac that drives it drawing about 500 watts in the background. which explains the lack of sound

[centripidal]

@breckandy you need airflow from some thing , there was no enginehooked up. look at othervideos of mine y ll see the engines running off of the gs

[hillbilliejoe]

how is it free?Wood is far from free I agree cool idea but not free. even if its on your land u have to cut it and most likely u will use a petro powered saw to cut the wood and time is money so there is no free energy here at all!

[oldbuckshot]

@hillbilliejoe you dont really get it do you?? when the economy collapses when the government shuts down the natural gas supply when the gas stations close this guy will be burnin wood chips watching big screen tv havin him some eeelectricity!

[slocar1]

very interesting video, some health and safety issues though.

[O7ROADKING]

the last time i checked the vacuum you are using to ram air into the wood box to create coals to get lots of gas cost money to run am i wrong

[centripidal]

@O7ROADKING / you are correct but the only reason i did it like this in the video is because i do not have an engine hooked up. check out my other vids engine running on wood gas

[savagenomore]

@O7ROADKING not if you're using a free inverter wired to a free battery that is charged by a free generator that is run by the gasifier that burns free wood....

[PsychoScientist007]

Hey what if we don't waste wood burning outside the barrel to start this process and we simply ignite the wood inside and then after a minute close the lid. the process will definitely be very slow but we will get coal and gas in different chambers/barrels at the end without wasting energy to produce energy though it will take many days of patience.

[talledu]

Looks like a five chambered basement bomb.

[MindCrime123]

Free energy ??? you put energy in the wood to make gas... so you use energy to make energy ... conclusion no free energy because you use already energy.

[havocdaemon]

If you get your engine running off of that, you`re laughing all the way to the bank!

[wileycsg]

what a lame instructional video, what am i supposed to be looking at?

[Owlmon]

wow...a bomb in what looks like a basement! not the best place to experiment...nice effect..wrong place!

[esteelexxismckaylee]

This is a shit instruction. You are doing your own thing while we are watching. Nobody and nothing can lear from yoy if you were an instructor!!!!

[oobuc5]

hello,loved the demo loved the plain no nonsense approach ,you are right about the commonsense approach ,i built a gasi unit for the disposal of cardboard and paper,

=45 gallon drum very heavy gauge perforated sheet [scrapyard] 10"air intake in the base via perforated sheet ,whenup to temp 3/4 minuets burns with blue gold flame,no smoke ,may well modify to produce gas next spring,

loved that vid, oobuc5

[Jsegthoroughbred]

Where can I find plans for one? I am all about learning more!!

[centripidal]

@Jsegthoroughbred 

[Fused314]

is it hard to make. it looks like alot of thought went into it

[centripidal]

@Fused314

fairly easy if you are some what mechanical

[knineu02]

In the title... How is it "free energy?"

[centripidal]

@knineu02 in my opinion if you do not put any money into it , it's free even though you have to put a little work into it.

some people think nothing is free , tru , but i have less than 100$ IN MY GASIFIER AND THE WOOD CHIPS ARE FREE FROM MY TREE SERVICE COMPANY. i designed this unit to run off of green chips so you dont have to dry them. lot of guys use pellets and those you have to buy.

why build something that you have to buy fuel for that is already out there , it defeats the purpose

[wilfredolatorre]

@centripidal Well said, thumb up!

[manfromregina]

@centripidal Hi. dude I 100% agree

For those that cant see the obvious.....tough ...

[1foxtrot70]

Does the video have sound? I am courious can the gas produced by this generator be stored for future use?

[1foxtrot70]

Does the video have sound? I am courious can the gas produced by this generator be stored for future use?

[1foxtrot70]

Does the video have sound? I am courious can the gas produced by this generator be stored for future use?

[yelton7]

wtf why is it lagging

[KingRyltar]

have you come across a way to collect, pressurize and store the gas for later use?:

[nickle989]

NT0M - Hydrogen is the most suitable fuel. If you look at all the energy wasted in producing petro gasses, you will find that hydrogen is by far the better solution. The problem lies with the storage of it. Wood gas or syngas results because of very high temperature reactions above I believe 700c and the moisture from the wood and the air creates steam and then reacts with the carbon to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide. I believe the memory is correct.

[slimbo24]

@nickle98...... HMMMMMM...... sounds like someone knows how to GOOGLE !!!!!!!!!!

(or WIKI)

[NT0M]

David Coffin - what you do not know about physics could fill a large library. Hydrogen does not exist anywhere in nature in a free state with the exception of the sun. Which means all hydrogen must be manufactured using some other source of energy. The most common method of creating hydrogen is using natural gas. It requires far more energy to produce hydrogen that it can carry. Hydrogen is not suitable for fuel for any internal combustion engine and certainly not any turbing engine.

[centripidal]

don't critisize , enlighten . according to many publications the hydrogen is extracted through a process called pyrolosis . there is obviously no ready to use hydrogen in wood , that would be way to easy but since your the scientist here why don't you explain it to everybody , maybe all the educated people are wrong. wouldnt be the first time (research steven hawkins) after who knows how many years, he thinks he's wrong, about his black hole theory.

[NT0M]

Centripidal - OK - First I would like to apologize for the harsh remark. I'm just fed up with junk science. Climate change, green this & that, the Prius - all junk science. When a person sincerely believes that there is some 'magic' way of doing something when just a little common sense would prove otherwise, maybe that's just ignorance & naivety but maybe their heart is in the right place. The truth is that there is no magic, cars require large amounts of energy & hydrogen can't provide it.

[heycolslaw]

Hydrogen should be used for it's strengths i.e.the tremendous Lowering of emissions. Comparison. Salt. you don't eat it by itself, but when you put it on food... see?

[FeldwebelWolfenstool]

An old Finnlander north of here slapped one of these onto his old '50's International Harvester truck, his kids have fixed it up, and run it around now.

[Umbrella387]

does it burn constant or hafta keep relighting? i noticed you was doing that periodically through your vid, was that demonstration purposes or it actually finished, and you just hafta keep lighting?

[centripidal]

once it reaches a certain operating temperature and you can refill it without interupting the burn chamber it will burn for hours , in one of my videos i ran a small engine for 2 hours before i went in the house so i dont even know how long it actually ran

[Ooberpoonage]

great idea.I want to build one myself.But there's no such thing as a free puppy.Free energy ,to me, implies energy gained/used without expending energy.Surely there is energy put into collecting/ preparing the wood(fuel).Be that as it is, your time is worth something isn't it?How much does "free" energy actually cost? Depends on the person I s'pose?

[northerbrewer]

I believe as little as 1% CO in the air in that garage would be a leathal mix killing in minuts.

Maybe a buy a cheap CO detector to have on you.

[centripidal]

it is not in a garage under carport with half open roof

[northerbrewer]

Be careful.

You can buy Co monitors cheap on Ebay

[david1513]

a turbine also dont need a carberator the more fuel you put though it the faster it runs, no over heating problums ether, turbines run very hot anyways, David Coffin*

[david1513]

a turbine powered by hydrogen is the answer for the wrolds oil shortage, it can power a turbine running a generator to power your home with electricity a turbine can power a electric car, it could save the wrold we know of now! hydrogen just a very small amout is 1000 times more powerful then gas or alchol, massive power out put! David Coffin*

[badjester80]

With that out of the way, good work centripidal. I'm working on a smaller version I hope to finish by next spring. We have a bit of a bark beetle issue here and it's making for plenty of cheap to dare I say free firewood. Best of luck and hope everything works well for you.

[badjester80]

Don't forget miutube (and all other websteins) that your preaching a theory, not a fact..Truth is, it is far more likely that there is a source of free energy that we have yet to discover. Either way I'd take the safe route and accept a slight probability before I declared it's utter impossibility. Not that I suspect your an authority on the subject but honestly? Do you believe ANYONE can make a definitive answer to the question of free energy? I assure you flat worlder, we've NO SUCH ANSWER.

[TattoosbySawedoff]

not misleading a product like this, built correctly can take you off the grid. make your own energy, and not pay for it through some price gouging energy company..... let me guess, you work for some conglomerant like that right? Or youre some young kid that thinks free means no labor

[miutube474]

There is NO SUCH THING as free energy, maybe if you had an unlimited supply of free wood, a free wood chipper, free time, and you built it from scrap material left in a field somewhere, and you had free electricity to run that shop vac, you MIGHT come close. Very misleading intro.

[centripidal]

in my situation it is pretty much free , if you have to buy wood to power it and your expenses are higher than your return , then yes it would not be free.

[Mrpsychotehpyro]

It will work nice and fine once the gas is sufficient to power an engine.

We had lots of cars and small transport vehicles powered by wood gas here in germany in late WW II and the "bad" years after the war.

Sadly this was totally abandoned after the refineries had been rebuilt, it often looked funny and was certainly cumbersome to use in daily life, but it still was a very simple but effective technology

[robertsmi2]

I am wanting to make one of these to power the batterbank in my shop. coupld you possibly share your plans that you have. I have not been able to find a good set of plans for free anywhere.

[rnsimon]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me like everyone of these videos has some sort of high speed fan attached. Your model is no exception, I seem to have caught a green and white 10 hp shop vac mostly out of view, also no sound... how convienant. Are you able to remove this once it is attached to a motor? How is this consitered free if you still have to use electricity to power it? Its not really benifitial if all you are getting out of it is a few watts that the shop vac isnt using...

[CharlieCheapshot]

the blowers you see are for startup only, after connected to an engine a vaccum is created and it is no longer necessary

[renewablegossip]

What have you tried as fuel? How long will it run on one load? How much cleaning / maintenance do you have to do between loads?

I love the idea and I see a lot of people playing with wood gas but I have not seen anyone use it on a daily basis to do something productive.

[turbomoore]

What's "free" about this?

[centripidal]

depends on what you consider free

[turbomoore]

I reckon if the fuel is free then yeah. Your gas is kinda dirty though. Are those coolers also filters?

[centripidal]

yes coolers mostly but also filters

[turbomoore]

It looks like you have alot of tar present, post filtration (in this one and the engine video). What are you doing to rememdy this? cheers

[ThisFish888]

Was that tar dripping?

[kbert63]

How about some audio explanation to go with the video.

[jbsroberson]

CO2 is healthy compared to what comes out of wood gassification. CO2 doesn't burn CO (carbon monoxide does). The advantage to gassification is that there's no soot in the fire like with regular wood burning. That's why gassification is used in steam boilers. To keep the metals clean.

[xrmarty2005]

Pls, fill me in, as I'm still trying to figure out how gasifiers work: If you put a lid on top of the access hole (where you place the the wood chips) How does the air get into the burner. Thx.

Marty

[centripidal]

if you look close you will see a pipe that goes in to the barrel right beside the lid,you only need very limited amounts of oxygen.

[TogieTung]

Is it me or the flame on 1:48 when the guy went pass it looks like a human face? By the way, good educational video & if I were you I would do all the experiments outside(possible CO2 inhalation).

[dennisxc600]

It does look like a face- Crazy-

[centripidal]

it acts as a diffuser

[bwpenoyer]

Awesome! Why did the flames burn better after placing a coffee can with holes in it over the smoke outlet?

[centripidal]

he would let it burn the hair off his chest and laugh

[acmecyote]

awesome gas!but what would chuck norris do?

[centripidal]

yes the other 2 are coolers

[4Mengineering]

lovely set up and nice vid. i understand your first drum is the gasifier but what are the other two for? cooling? filtering?