I've been hearing from numerous people that they are facing roadblocks or told to stop by the government, police, media etc... It seems that they don't want people to know that you can make clean energy right now through gasification. What are you hearing or experienced?
I was reading a blog about a New York Times writer that told a homemade gasifier inventor that individual people like themselves who are making gasifiers need to stop and that he would never write a story about it since it is negligent and people could die from the carbon monoxide if they used it to power their homes.
Permalink Reply by Roy on October 31, 2008 at 2:40pm
I have read/heard similar. I think the best tact is to hide the gasifier under a camper or, in the case of home power, in a shed with a well muffled exhaust. Of course with either it should be heat resistant/fire proof and any possibility of C0 poisoning must be mitigated. I've always kept my experimentation as un-publicized as possible. It seems the Fins and Sweds have a better time of it but us Yanks must remain underground.
No, I am being encouraged by media, and government to progress. My state senator knows exactly what I am doing, and is happy. My state representitive is completey baffeled, and only scratches his chin.
There are standards that must be implemented,however. I move we confer.
Purpose is to promote saftey, efficiency, and innovation. Perhaps agree upon universal connectors, so one firm's components will connect to another's.
Example: Jim Mason's GEK will connect to my carburator, and vice-versa
Over a million vehicles ran on wood in WWII...They had to or starve.They had reasonable standards.
Permalink Reply by Roy on December 20, 2008 at 7:22pm
Yup - it does. Admittedly I vacillate. Government is fickle so who can say what is the best tact? I wish "We the people" truly ruled ourselves. Even in the early 80's when most of my experimenting in gasification took place I felt I was being scrutinized. I had a gasifier installed on the back of my pickup for a little less than a year and was pulled over twice. No citation but I and my rig were highly scrutinized.
Jim Martin said:
I don't know - This looks pretty above ground to me.