Fair enough Martin 
It doesnât get very dark at night here, according to the weatherapp we have about 19 hours that the sun is up.
This photo that I took right now is at midnight (should really go to bed and try to turn around to normal time again)
Looked up how far south I live from the arctic circle and it is 680km or 422miles so not that weird that it still is light outside.
I canât even begin to think of all the stuff I could get done with that much sunlight.
Yeah, I believe you do get way more done with this much sunlight, work gets done into late evenings until you get physically tired and stop.
But⌠the back side is that this time is also the time to enjoy and replenish your energy since six months from now there is 19 hours a day of darkness and cold making all work harder. I heat my workshops with low efficiency homemade woodstoves only those days I need to be there. Starting a fire there right after getting out of bed and tending it every half hour to an hour for several hours just to get it to above freezing.
So I think that in total it is about the same work one could get done regardless of where in the normal populated world you live unless you made it harder for yourself living off-grid, harsh environments and such.
Yes, that is the biggest drawback. No light during winter, depressing. Is that why all , most off the people live below the line Oslo-Stockholm?
Most likely, along with milder winters and back in the day more fertile land.
Closer to continental europe is probably a thing as well for some
Sweden is a pretty long country, north to south it is over 60% of the U.S.
Width however is another story. 
There are a couple of tricks to combat SAD. Seasonally Affected Disorder/Depression. The stacked up always cloudy winter days of no seeing the sun for weeks.
Use table and floor lamps with eye level fairly bright lights. Just above eye level hanging chandeliers.
Use in-room heaters with visible and felt red glowing elements. Glass fronted wood stoves are ideal. Ha! I would show pictures of this if the newly revised DOW would allow me. Seems to be revise to lock out Mac users.
Overhead ceiling lighting will not create the same, trick-the-brain, effects. At high levels of all surround lighting just gives you the seeming endless days of summer, overstimulated, fatigues. Indirect heating warns; yes. But will not combat seasonal depressions. Our 100,000 years evolved brains wanting to see and feel Fire-is-Life. And made fire gives an enlivening control over your environment. That is freedom expressed. You created. You control. That is true freedom.
We are now 16 hours of sun here now. Ha! No sun seen here for the last three days with a series of overlapping from Alaska low pressure bubbles: clouds and rains. Deep winter it is 7 hours of sun here. With 10-20 days never seeing it. Just use the tricks. Clothes-up, boot-up; and work-on.
Steve unruh
This post is not about wood gas, but it will indirectly affect the use of wood for electricity generation.
This is not a fireplace, but a space for batteries and a solar inverter, and the pipe on top will be used for ventilation,âŚ
I plan to install 10 solar panels here on the roof (for now), I still have to attach a few more brackets to the roof,âŚ
It will be interesting to test and make actual measurements of how much energy and power wood (perhaps charcoal too) produces.
Be carefull Tone, PV is very adictive 
The heat and humidity has been sapping the life right out of me lately. Thermometer will tell you itâs âonlyâ 90-some-odd °F but the âFeels Likeâ temperature is easily over 100°F. My shop is very stuffy even if I use a fan and keep the big door open and the sun is oppressive. Itâs bad enough working like this in the warehouse during the week so I am currently spending most of my time hiding from the heat in the house.
Tomorrow I need to clean up in front of the metalworking shop to make room for Dadâs 1950 Chevrolet, he bought it for $500 from the guy. Iâll eventually get the shop cleaned out enough we can push it into there. I checked the dipstick on the engine for that car and it was very sludgy, I hope that isnât babbit bearings sludge. We might have to do an engine swap if thatâs the case, maybe I should keep my eyes peeled for a 235 I6.
If you are going to do an engine swapâŚKeep your eyes peeled for say an LS3 with turbos 
Not in our budget and I donât do computerized vehicles. One of Dadâs old friends still has his Jaguar XJ6 that heâd put an 80s El Camino 350 SBC and a Turbo 350 into. It looks like it isnât that hard to do a full suspension swap from the XJ6 to the Chevy. The Jag is rotten and unibody cars are a mess to patch up so it would be easier to just get the Jaguar in a trade, gut it and scrap the body. I think with stock manifolds it would fit easily.
Dad said something to me about maybe putting that 350 into my truck and using my milder 70s 350 SBC into the Deluxe. Weâll see how that goes. I know Iâm keeping the th400 in my truck either way. Only other transmission I would be willing to put in the GMC is an nv4500 to get an overdrive. I have a gin pole for my tractor, chain hoist, and engine pulling device that you can crank to balance the load. I forget what those are called, I want to call it a harness. I should practice using that stuff on the Mazda engine swap into the donor body.
Hello Tone,
In my battery system, the inverter handles the ventilation and voltage management; consequently, the batteries remain âcool,â while the inverter is the component that heats up.
I donât know if your system will be different, but I recommend placing the inverter under the chimney or in the best-ventilated spot.
During the early '90s my Healey developed a bad camshaft. It was hard to find parts and the engine was a heavy cast iron beast, so I swapped in a 5.0 liter high output Mustang V8. Years later in retrospect I think I should have tried harder to find a camshaft and stay original. It would have kept better value that way. But it sure was a blast to drive!
Small block chevyâs in Austin Healdyâs was a fairly common swap around here in the late 60âs-early 70âs Martin. I think there were even some after market motor mounts available for the swap. Better times.
Probably just as well I donât own the car anymore, something really horrendous could have happened to it besides a bastardizing engine swap:
It would have been a really cool addition to the classic. The 5 litre v8 would really move that little car even on wood gas. Definitely a conversation starter.
One of my dream builds is a good old Land Yacht or V8 powered American sedan on woodgas. Something with a generous trunk. After seeing cars like the Woodgas Caddy and Vesa Mâs personal car (which I think is a Lincoln) I know they take well to it.
