Off Grid Personal Power Station- VictoryGasifier.com

[fullraph]

Someone told me that running an engine on wood gas reduce the lifetime of the engine, is it true?

[Soundgarden8497]

you did 5000 hours of research for this? obviously you dont have a job or a fucking life!

[LampLightMan]

Colossal idea! Love the concept and the potential. The best part is independence and self sustainability. But, please, "gloom and doom" conservatives? Give us a break, bro! We just want to be prepared WHEN the grid goes down. Not IF! The far lefties got a better label than we did. What gives?

[LampLightMan]

You're going to spend anywhere from $30,000 to $35,000 easy if you want to power and heat your house and your water implementing a Victory gasifier. But if you do the math and give it some serious thought, the long term benefits are paramount!

[HLANGEL100]

Way to go;-D

As has been mentioned: price? OR MODULAR PARTS, TURN KEY, SHIPPING???????

[onceANexile]

I can tell this guy is no fun!

[BigHeadFarm]

I'm sorry dude - I checked out your website and anyone that sells a product and does not CLEARLY make the price immediately available seems like a fraud to me. Post the prices on your site, or you won't get business from Big Head farm in Michigan.

[barumman]

Looks nicely made, very interesting. 

[yarp99]

you guys ever check out Ron Paul for president 2012??

[armystrong9997]

price?



[TheSpankymonkey]

This is useless, when you take into account the energy required to make the gas in the first place, time, effort. The cost of the appliance, plus the electricity generator itself and the replacement of the generator motor over time then i doubt it would even break even on domestic energy costs.

[evan2024]

@TheSpankymonkey It's not about being cheaper at the moment. It's about being more independent and less reliant on fossil fuels and their price fluctuations.

[badmoonryzn]

@TheSpankymonkey Yea, you tell the people in WW2 from Europe and the USA who put one of these on their car and drove where ever they wanted on burnable waste. Don't be so short sighted and see how useful these things can be in a fuel shortage, Look at all of the fuels usable in one of these devices. I can see where this might be difficult with your limited imagination, but I'll bet one could be built for the cost of a tank of petrol or 100 bucks and made well. Don't be one of the fun police!

[moecat1000]

how many acres of biomass do you need to keep this running indefinitly ?..how much of a carbon footprint ?..how do you replace the nutrients to the soil ?.. now we know why this is not in use for millions of people

[UncleFexxer]

@moecat1000 Do you have any idea how many millions of tons of agricultural WASTE are generated by logging and food crops? Did you know that nitrifying weed "crops" like switchgrass are grown to REJUVENATE fallow crop soil?

Do you even know what a carbon footprint is? Fossil fuels release carbon stored and concentrated over millions of years. Crops burned for energy breathe CO2 to grow, they release less than they breathed growing. Zero footprint. Study some science and do the math.

[moecat1000]

@UncleFexxer your a carbon footprint

[smith288]

@moecat1000 It's "you're" not your. First, study grammar, then study carbon footprint definitions.

[moecat1000]

@smith288 your a carbon footprint

[BajaParts]

5 people work for BP

[thelaughingman79]

@seeker21truth you mean you could hear it over the blue grass concert? i would have actually liked to hear it

[ZebbMassiv]

A Marijuana grower's dream.

[UncleFexxer]

Hemp and certain species of bamboo generate absurd amounts of biomass in a single season. The bamboo takes about 3 years to become hard enough to make lumber, but it reaches full size in 1 season and if it's just biomass you want... the warmer latitudes have a new cash crop. A new forest worth of fuel every season.

Hey! I think the South can find a silver lining to the kudzu problem. Harvest that shit and gasify it! You know you'll never run out of fuel.

[onebigkahuna69]

@UncleFexxer You would need a million of these to take care of the Kudzu problem.lol

[UncleFexxer]

@onebigkahuna69 Heh yeah, I've been down there, it'll never be stopped... but like I said, it'd be one endless supply of biomass. May not take care of the overgrowth problem but at least it would supply a silver lining to the kudzu cloud... might as well get some benefit from it

[onebigkahuna69]

@UncleFexxer I always wondered why they didn't use as animal feed?

[FacetsOfTruth]

As Tim The Tool Man Taylor would say; 'Arrrrh Arrrh Arrrrh Arrrrrrrrrh'.

[heald269]

It's called pyrolysis! egyptians used it to for fuel to power compound compression lifts raising 20 ton pyramid blocks into position. Just what the world needs another batch fed, material specific pyrolysis process. To slow, and labor intensive to ever be used on a commercial scale. No pun intended. Your on the right track. Continual feed and flow is the answer my friend. Very well built. I am impressed.

[TheJmartin32]

@drunknmonky77 a woodchuck would make as much Kw as a woodchuck could make, if a woodchuck could make Kw...

[drunknmonky77]

How many Kw can a woodchuck make?

[asubjectiveopinion]

Are the replaceable parts self-machinable?

[Boyntonstu]

Why not generate steam for steam engines instead of using ICE's?

A rocket stove is very accepting of almost any solid fuel, burns very clean, and is not complicated.

A 4" Diameter dual piston engine with a 4" stroke can produce 50+ hp at 125 psi. You can also heat your home and your water with a mono tube steam boiler. Mono tubes are safe and they will not explode.

[iamthebigbadwolf]

i really think all you ppl asking if this can burn hemp that you are searching the wrong video. you should be searching how to make a better bong lol or try how to smoke a hookah lmao

[kydenj28]

@iamthebigbadwolf your just used to buying you gas at what ever price they want you too. Your brain can't even comprehend Bio-mass and that hemp grows the most biomass out of any plant. Go spread your propaganda somewhere else. Oh yea and get drunk. lmao. loser.

[iamthebigbadwolf]

@kydenj28 wtf are you saying shit to me? are you ignorant or just naturally an idiot? can you not see the humor intended in my comment? you must think with the creation of a better mouse trap or here carburetor that any nigger in office will immediately legalize marijuana. lmoa. hey, here is tip for you: save gas, keep ur mouth shut.

[kydenj28]

@iamthebigbadwolf struck a nerve?

[iamthebigbadwolf]

@kydenj28 nope. just can't stand idiots.

[theoneagain]

that s a cool device eough to piss off oil companies

[KesslersCross]

Well, how long does it take to run a generator to power batteries?

[flya750]

Yes... Can HEMP be used as a fuel?

[Rommelmxm]

you poluted the planet



[ftalbert1]

I think I would like this if I could get some audio with it. I'm dieing to know what he's saying.

[HDVideoPro2010]

BTW would you try and help the fellow man or is it every man for himself?? This is what sort of happened around our area. We were blessed to have a Generator but I had to drive 60 miles round trip every other day to get fuel to keep it running on top of what fuel supply I already had which was 20 gallons plus the 5 in the Generator. That's why I was looking into a Tri-Fuel System or a Setup like yours.

[HDVideoPro2010]

I like the video but I got a question for ya so hang with me here ok. So lets say you live in Alabama where I live. And everything around you was pretty much totally destroyed by the recent Tornados but your stuff got sparred. You now have people that have lost everything and that setup looks pretty damn sweet and somebody decides it would better in there yard than in yours and the only way to guard that thing is to stay up around the clock on close patrol. What would you do??

[RogerFleig]

@HDVideoPro2010

Your a morron

[HDVideoPro2010]

@RogerFleig And your a Dick!!

[relicright]

@HDVideoPro2010 Thats why you buy long range rifles and multiple guns and use your family to guard in shifts.

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

@HDVideoPro2010 Booby Traps and Mean Dogs might help a lot. Search Rocket City Rednecks Watermelon Defense for some ideas. Their setup could work if they made a couple adjustments.

[lucasmorter]

where you at in washington? im in portland oregon, cool vids man

[BroughamConspiracy]

Two Al Qaeda cell leaders do not like this video.

[astrialkil]

@BroughamConspiracy Two Saudi Arabian sheiks did not like this video!

[anyotheronee]

I would love to convert my old lawnmower to use a small one of these. I have alot of large tree limbs that fall in my yard it would be nice to just pick them up and use them as fuel.

[barkerbiz]

Without doubt. The sexiest looking Gasifier. My question is input output related. How many kilo of fuel goes in. And what aproximate, would the combined energy of electricity and btu's of hot water created be. Sorry if this is in one of your other vids. I didnt get that far yet.

[OldCrow0031]

Can the gasifier burn cow manure, if it it dried sufficiently?

[mike8086]

@OldCrow0031 - a guy back in the 60's ( i think, and dont exact quote me on this) thought, wow, we use a hell of a lot of good clean fresh water to flush shit down the toilet, and thought of a crapper, that insinerated the waste, to reduce it to ash, and use no water at all. the fuel to burn it was more money than to clean the water, and the big kicker ( how this applys to your thought) the imishions that came off of burning shit were HUGE! tons of toxic gasses that could not be controled.

[astrialkil]

@mike8086 If your gasifier is set properly then all pollutants should be broken down into carbon monoxide and some CO2. Carbon Monoxide is the primary fuel. So you shouldn't have bad emissions.

[closerrtogod]

1 person disliked this because they don't know how to chop wood /:

[u4eagun]

@closerrtogod runescape 101

[G33kJiroux]

@closerrtogod Use a wood chipper...

[tiktak25]

@closerrtogod  LMAO

[BurnYourCash]

were you inspired by the movie misquito coast?

[PJRABBITOH]

Whisper quiet too....lol

[kydenj28]

do you think you could use hemp in this? How long does a full tank last?

[KesslersCross]

@kydenj28 Your comment rasises more questions then answers to me. 1. How much extra hemp do you have to spare that you could run one of these lol 2. Would you really wanna get pulled over with a hemp powered care. 3. ....I want your hemp

[iamthebigbadwolf]

@KesslersCross hemp is hemp, lol even sold in walmart.

[steviewonder417]

@kydenj28 hemp would work better it burns on average 4 times hotter than wood

[kydenj28]

@steviewonder417 its probably easier to dry out the specifications also. being a light wood. Maybe a market for hemp pellets????

[ChandraIRose]

@kydenj28 I have seen a similar 1 yes you can use hemp as well as newspaper and anything burnable.

[bluedolphinify]

@kydenj28 Industrial hemp and cannabis can be fuel, food, clothing, medicine, and building material that is stronger than steel.

[Soundgarden8497]

@kydenj28 why? do you smoke that much fucking dope?

[richardgradondow]

Where can I buy this?

[lookout816]

victorygasifier. com

[woodnsteel19]

This machine would make the Wright brothers proud,or any Millwright,or Steam Engineer.

This is Engineering.

[Indygoguy]

Bamboo grows extremely fast. Have you ever thought of growing bamboo for fuel ?

[AmusedConsensus]

Could that same gasifier be used to turn Hemp into gas? Or be converted to do so?

[burntcoffeemedia]

Using nothing but gasified wood to heat, and power a generator to power a house, using basic energy usage, how much wood would it take to make that amount of power per year?

[Gnostic279]

Great idea!! For those many people who will need wood for heat this is a great way to use those extra peices that get left on the ground. Also a good use for all those trees and brushes and yard clippings etc. that u wouldn't want to use for cooking or heat due to breathing the smoke.

1 question- if the engine isn't running can the breakdown process be stalled or stopped to save the biofuel?

[lookout816]

@Gnostic279 Yes, it can be saved.

[davisonh1]

I am doing the same as you,currently collecting/building the parts to build my own.What I think I am going to do differently than most guys is to set up a battery bank system,like the old 32 volt DC setups from the early 1900's(before the REA)except store power @ 115 volts dc then convert it to 120/240 volt AC so that the generator can cycle on and off when needed,like a furnace.Also thinking of using waste heat to heat barn.

[apintonut]

cool your in W.A. state too!

[kenfo0]

that system will extinguish in high water. put it up on blocks bro.

[awfargit]

You're a ham sandwich. Ham that is.

[pono1951]

so what your saying is you can generate power by cutting down our trees and running enternal combustion engines.. Hummm. your right thats not new. thats the way the world thinks alright!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kenfo0]

@pono1951 hmmmmm. I guess you are one of those useful idiots who believes in MMGW. Idiots who pretend to understand science, but don't. All your hopes, dreams and beliefs are anchored to a corrupt and immoral U.N. They tell you to drink the kool aid, you gulp it down, thank them, then demand everyone else does the same. Let's back those statements up: The UN only does what is in certain members' economic interests, and are incompetent. You personally? Burning wood is carbon neutral. OOPS.

[1g5g1g5g]

@pono1951 - You can harvest fast growing trees like Privet. It grows a few feet a year and when you cut it back not down it grows back thicker and bushier than before. Plus any dead fall material you find you can use as well. You don't have to cut anything down to run this.

[Indygoguy]

@1g5g1g5g Bamboo can grow 39 inches in a day if the conditions are right.

[TheBigpunn421]

cant say how long it will last til it does.....but great idea.

[havocdaemon]

Looks like a well engineered project!

[barndler]

I wish I had a hair line like that again.

[eiresuperbalzz]

What kind of filters are you using to extract the tar??

[ShaggtyDoo]

How much is this system minus the generator? How much does it put out?

[rocks2rocks06]

nice job it looks good, i have about a year and a half in mine but its a totaly new prosess

[pwc0000]

what tha hay is wrong with the sound??????????

[Axbent]

the ppl who lived with woodgas cars during the war say small peices clog the carbs, use larger blocks of wood. not pellets.

[Thurthof5]

I'm sure the heat is enough not only to preheat water but to heat it up completely for domestic purposes. Only then the system can be energy efficient. Prop a thermic solar cells to it and it should rock. If summers at your place are hot, you can even use it to power an absorbtion chiller too cool down your house. It becomes a big plant then and maybe too much work just for an "end of the world retreat" but very interesting in a community maybe. Then add a biowaste to biogas plant.

[stadelma1]

just excellent work! comment made by an old toolmaker from Switzerland

[proverb311031]

Are we able to us the heat to preheat water, and can we store the fuel for use in our cars and trucks!

[definca]

Cool vid. as with anything you have to hit a sweet spot of bang for the buck. many of those stainless parts would have to be standard metal to lower cost of both materials and fab work.

Woody's work is a monument toward gasification, likely because of the true hours and hours he as spent gaining his education about this subject. Well done, just dont expect those off grid folks to shell out the hard green cash, were savy, have tools, and we are mostly broke! Woody is very likable in these vids

[scoobydog411]

I have a new generator . but a steam system is hard to do because of the Government ???? im not suprized....

[scoobydog411]

why not use the wood to boil water . then use steam to make electric ?

[dngrdave2000]

1. Availability - Gas engines are everywhere, easy to buy and cheap. Steam engines not so much.

2. Expense - If you can find a steam engine, it's not going to come cheap, then you have to buy a boiler. Most states require certification of the boiler, and often certification for the operator.

3. Maintainability - Finding parts for a 100+ year old engine is difficult, plus annual boiler inspections, etc. With a gasifier you can swap out an engine pretty quickly and cheaply.

[DrD0000M]

Plus steam boilers can blow up like a bomb, so there's that too.

[dngrdave2000]

Exactly... this is actually an example where legislation has done some good. Keep the shade tree mechanics from blowing scalding hot water all over the neighborhood.

Mythbusters did a show where they removed all the safety devices from a water heater and were sending them into orbit!

[Axbent]

@dngrdave2000 visit tinypower on the net and learn more. they do steam power kits

[theycallmetrigger]

@scoobydog411 because just burning wood wastes 2/3 of the energy potential that gasification harnesses...

[jimprice09]

Ok sorry I have saw the price

Can you be off the grid with only one unit?

[soldieroffortune1974]

you can make the same thing for about 100 bucks with a steel drum and hose.That fancy rig would take 5 or 6 years to pay it off and be practical.

[jsmythib]

it looks alot better than my old garbage can wood gas generator lol

[jimprice09]

what is the price?

[danboone143]

Stainless Steel is the way to go, especially in anything that is going to be burning wood; good for you for making yours to last. This is the epitome of good value - the labor is the same for quality material (like you used) or the cheap stuff.