Wood fired turbine

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[COOLGUYBENTLEY]

What you can do is channel the exhaust gasses from the turbine around or under the tank holding the wood. The hot gases would heat the wood and then you wouldnt need any fire under that tank once it got up to a high enough temperature. Then you would only need a flame for heating the wood at the start. Then wood would be the only fuel you need. This would be great for people in remote areas that need something for heating and generating electricity.

[CaptainYohan]

I think you are misunderstand how this is working, there is not any fire under the chamber. The torch is just used to get the wood inside the tank burning, after that the only thing burning is the wood inside the chamber. The wood inside the chamber is the only fuel.

[angelica14709]

You have only used the expansion from combustion, It appears the heat is lost.

[CaptainYohan]

You are correct about the heat being lost...but that is just a prototype to show that a turbine can run on wood.

The guy that built it seems to have plans to run a generator to make electricity and heat could be recovered for space heating or water heating.

[angelica14709]

What is the break through here or is it just fun?

[CaptainYohan]

IT is one fairly simple way to convert wood to heat and power in remote areas where wood is the only fuel easily available... and yea I think it is fun too. To learn more about it, go to the inventors own web site.

at nye . ca

[eddiefreddie39]

That is really cool. How long did it run on one loading of tank?

[xmicina]

I think I have something to say to this experiment: runing turbine on woodgas is good idea, I asked engeneer(aircraft man) and nowdays types of high speeds turbines(aproximatly over 80.000-120.000 RPM) are sensitive and needs higly clean fuel. Small parts in woodgas(ash,minerals and tars) would caused fast degradation of internal surface turbine wings. Woodgas turbine should be longlife robust(RusianTypeConstruction)­with lower RPM, bladeless type(TeslaTurbine) could work.

[ProphetOfDoom137]

Man that thing is so hot

[BadGasGoodWind]

there are 7billion people on the planet. we all can't burn stuff. neat ideas but not green enough to make a difference.

[GeorgeVeld]

@BadGasGoodWind Check out stan meyer He is not the only one who has done it but i beleve that he is the only one who actuly aproched the military with his fule cell Or even burning wood gas For hydro or in your car

[BadGasGoodWind]

@GeorgeVeld I take a hard stand on combustion because others will compromise as change occurs. I am all for tree planting, tree farming, live christmas trees (the latter prevents acreage from being turned into condo's by keeping farmers solvent) I believe that public utilities and the people they serve would prefer a clean source w/out other relevence to the corporate structure. Hydro 4 all is faults also makes waterways navigable where a single barge replaces 10 trains ot 100 trucks.

[BadGasGoodWind]

@GeorgeVeld i see what you mean now. do you have any good links to find out more about the tech? i have only seen a few clips here and there about a car or two.

[GeorgeVeld]

@BadGasGoodWind Wood also isa good form of fuel If harnessed properly the upside is that we dont eat it the downside is there is a carbon foot print Solar is great but the down sides Costly to install and mantain the utility/hydro companys are only paying10% of what they charge and the township takes a good peice of that in taxes wind has the same problems and unless the Goverment starts helping with this we are going nowhere I do hear now in some country's there are som subsidy's which helps

[GeorgeVeld]

@BadGasGoodWind I hear what you are saying but that is some thing that BIG OIL AND OUR GOVERMENT will not allow to happen Take water there has been at least 4 times that someone has proven that we can run a combustion engine on water or h 2o Which when burned emits water A 0 carbon foot print Not to mention that your engine will last 1000000 miles pluse because of the way it burns But instead the goverment promotes costly and unpractical fuel cells that run on hh o

[BadGasGoodWind]

@GeorgeVeld - Dear George, I never said nukes are green, they are not. RIP Chernobyl. I advocate we don't burn anything for fuel, not coal gas oil wood, corn or other bio mass. It all pollutes when burned and when extracted from the ground. Other reasons not to use biomass to burn, because with 7 Billion people on the planet all crops should be dedicated to food and not wasted as fuel. Most hydro & transmission grids are owned/operated by publically owned utilities. EV farm eqiup= top priority

[GeorgeVeld]

@BadGasGoodWind funny electric cars ??? now where dose 90% of the hydro come from? not wind or solar but wate for it coal and nuclear and who gains from that??? thats right our beloved oil companys and goverment so they are still making money on the fuel even if we are not putting in our tanks so what is the next best renewable which are trees water so use that to its fullest hydrogen syngas methain ect at least then we are not danceing chickens for the goverment ps a nuke reactor is not green