The books Hydrogen Gas Generator for Vehicles and Engines, Volumes 1 to 5 deal explicitly with making hydrogen gas from organic material to run an engine or a car. This stove is EXACTLY one of those generators. It was developed by Tom Reed, who wrote the book that is Volume 4 in the Hydrogen Gas Generator series. The Wood Gas stove is a working model for you to follow and use in your development. The Wood Gas stove is actually an "Upside Down Up-Draft Gassier." It is actually making a hydrogen dominated combustible gas from the wood or biomass in the stove and it is then feeding that gas BACK INTO the stove for the purpose of heat and for making more gas. With what you make in Volumes 1 to 5, you are not feeding the gas back into the stove (unless you are running a pure steam reformation process), but the gas you see coming out of the round holes (jets) at the top of the stove is what you are feeding into your engine, furnace, or melting furnace, etc... This is a working model that helps you see what the output of your larger one should do and, on top of that, this is ONE GREAT little stove. At 10,000 BTU's of rating, it’s much larger than most camp stoves that are normally 3,000 or 4,000 BTUs. Plus, your fuel is all around you. Wood chips, twigs, cut pieces of branches, pine cones, acorns, tree nuts, etc. ALL work incredibly well.
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