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possible post collapse energy system - preservefreak - 8 February 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzv6fIDsNwM
a system small enough to sit in your back garden, runs off wood and gives you fuel in the form of a combustible gas, charcoal and biocrude
RE: possible post collapse energy system - Prepper1 - 8 February 2013
I saw a car somewhere that ran off a large bag of the gas strapped to the roof with a weight on to supply pressure... don't know how long it lasted though...
It'd be good if say you had a fire burning constantly anyway say at camp and you strapped the reactor over the fire and then collected the resulting gas...
many uses.
RE: possible post collapse energy system - preservefreak - 8 February 2013
and you can plug the output hose straight to a generator
RE: possible post collapse energy system - Scythe13 - 8 February 2013
That's OLD tech. Vapourisor, I think it used to be known as.
It shows the process in a surviving a post apoc series I watched YEARS ago. Think I posted about it on here last year or the one before.
RE: possible post collapse energy system - Tarrel - 8 February 2013
They ran commercial vehicles like that in the second world war, to save on petrol.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/gas-bag-on-roof-holds-bus-fuel/
RE: possible post collapse energy system - preservefreak - 9 February 2013
Sorry S13 I didn't know you'd already posted about it. I'd love to know what series it was