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Color me SHOCKED!!!

 

SIR VEYOR

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That lack of consistency and reliability is generating greater advances-- in using WOOD as fuel. We seem to be going backwards.

That’s a fairly safe “chunker”. There’s been a fair bit of development in the wood gas field. It was big around WW2, but it’s got a growing base. Guys are running in everything from bikes, tractors, cars, to pickups. One group does a yearly meetup in Argos Indiana and drive from all over. The EU guys gotta fly though.
 
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Why does it take an incident like this for appropriate measures to be put into place?
Because it is super easy to get the big man 10% of something everyone now thinks is an emergency so that they do not look closely at the accounting ..
 
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Sometimes a random video shows you something new.... Check this out....


Hmmmmm.... imagining toroids on wind power turbines--- maybe they could use much smaller blades and achieve the same generating power while the structure supports less weight and has less wear on moving parts.

EDIT: check the comments on that video. Apparently that design does not scale up very well at all. Also-- lots of criticism regarding the inability to alter the blade pitch for aircraft...
 
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