I wanted to offer up a Third-Choice to home-power using woodgas.
Four-hour batch cycling/producing.
The other Choices pursued are continuous gas producing for as long as awake hours; and/or Grid feedback favorable. Gets really really complex.
The other Choice pursued is big batch making and then storing that “power” in a storable form for as-demand use needed. Has inevitable conversion state&storage energy losses.
Four hour batching evoled from my still working days with early morning firing up and heating up the house with the in-house woodstove. Leave. Be gone all day. Returning home from work doing this again, evening until bed time.
Wodgas making four hour batch systems can be more simply and easier make to work than any variation of the other two Choice approaches.
Ha! Four hour batch system stops making engine grade gas and the engine stops. Make easy air-in and gas out cuts offs. based on the engine stopping.
And this is not head noodling armchair speculation.
Been done. Used.
Why not you?
S.U.