The proof of concept wood gasifier exploded...

I've been working on a simple (and cheap) wood gasifier to better understand the concept in hopes of building a larger one to provide auxiliary power to the homestead and to produce biochar while mining some Bitcoin at the same time.

The lid kept blowing off this one so I started clamping it on but that caused it to start leaking the smoke out.

I got some high temp silicone to see if that could form a gasket to keep the wood gas from leaking out. It worked well and I was able to get a clean flare from the filtered exhaust side of the gasifier. As soon as I had everything hooked up to the generator and pulled the cord just enough back pressure must have been created to blow the little metal trash can totally out of shape. A flame blasted out of the air intake and burned up my blower too. I had hopes of showing this contraption off at the Lake Satoshi Retreat but it's back to the drawing board for now.

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