Alternative Energy
EcoZoom Rocket Stove Review
In case you haven’t read/seen my past review of the Stovetec rocket stove a rocket stove is a highly efficient wood-burning cooking stove that requires very little wood to boil water or cook an entire meal. Due to its design that allows for complete combustion, with just a few twigs and sticks you can maintain [...]
Converting a Lawn Mower Into a Generator
With Spring almost here, keep on the lookout for many of your neighbors clearing out their sheds and getting rid of their older lawn mowers in hopes of upgrading to newer models. I see them every year around this time lying in front of their houses, waiting for the trash man to come pick them up. [...]
Gassification 101: Video Lessons
Piggy-backing off of the recent gasification article I wrote, I wanted to include in this post a number of excellent videos put out by Victory Gas Works. These high production quality videos explain the gasification process in simple terms that the layman should understand. While your at it, be sure to visit their site. They have [...]
Biomass Gasification – A Primer
I’ve been researching alternative energy sources that could be used during an extended grid-down situation for a while now. Well just recently a good friend of mine had reminded me of one that I had long since forgotten (having originally passed over it in a Mother Earth News article a few years back): Wood or Biomass Gasification.
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