Re: GAS-L: Gasifiers and engines

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>]

      That does look quite nice, Graeme. But I can also understand why
you'd be having a difficult time marketing it -- at least in the US.
Most people, at least any of the ones I know, who'd be interested in
this sort of thing, are "back to the lander", homesteaders, etc., who
just aren't going to have the funds for anything near that cost. Or even
the Indian ones. My wife and I have fairly good middle class income, but
there's simply no way I could justify spending $20K on a
gasifier/genset. It's going to have to be home-made, I guess.
      And I've thought of building them and selling them, but I really
don't know what the market would be. Maybe if I could sell something for
around $1000-2000, ready to fit on someone's genset.
     The whole gasifier concept seems far too complicated for most
people. Those with money will buy solar panels, because it's simple and
doesn't break or require much maintenance. When I start explaining
gasifiers to people, I almost invariably get a "That's too complicated,
I don't want to deal with anything like that!" response.
     Gee, even with the fairly simple gasifying wood boiler I'm building
right now, I hear a lot of  --"That's too complicated, why don't you
just work more hours and pay the gas company?"  And if you add to that
the difficulty in getting *dry* wood chips to feed a gasfier ---

--
Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com



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