Hello Mr Jono,
Actual GEK’s have been done by some here on the DOW.
The most prevalent long-time user/promoter has been Richard “Pepe” Lemieux, here:
Yeah. Long, long at currently 531 posts.
He does give an outline summery added his beginning this will link will drop you into.
On all DOW topic at the ending of the originator first post will be a blue box tool “Summerize this Topic” click that and it will shorted to ~100 posts.
Pepes is a GEK Version II.
Everything you are talking about GEK is later version III and version IV.
Like Pepe I am very familiar with and have operated GEK version II’s and early III’s.
This has taught me a lot.
I do not see GEK in your first post proposal at all.
To me this is a separated out, divorced process Brandt system.
Using the magnifying glass tool top bar and look up the works of Francois Pal. He is doing a lot of work with Brandt based combined wood&charcoal systems.
For your desire goals actually here on the DOW it is Matt Ryder who is proposing and developing for combined outputs system’s. Not GEK, not Brandt. His own original designs.
The reason the fellows are saying go Keith system is they are already getting lots and lots of remaining slipped system bio-char. Getting 9.0 ph upper system condensates. Weed-killer/bug killer juice. Lots of down system 5.0 ph condensate used as a plant growth potentialize. Hmm. Maybe I’m back-asswards about this?
And getting lots of many-uses tertiary concentrated tars (Stockholm Tar) too.
So they are saying why all of the extra-overthinking, eh.
Just build one. Load run it hard and get it all as a matter of course.
Regards
Steve Unruh