I’ve probably wound over a hundred garage door springs. Dangerous? I suppose but so is a beautiful woman. Life needs an element of danger.
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You watch too much James Bond. 
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Probably not very many as cute as those kids. But if they get the ‘woodgas bug’ Apparently Sweden has a new way to monitor reactions in fluidized bed systems, which I don’t know if it would work for a small gasifier or not, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t. It would be interesting to find out what improvements could be made at that level of detailed analysis.
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The district heating boiler we run at work operates with fluidized bed combustion. We monitor temps and pressures within the combustion and all the substances in the exhaust, but nothing like that - I think. @JohanM is my mentor and a true expert in the field. I’ll let him fill in the details 
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No woogassing for a while 
Summer vacation, a trip to Öland.
Borrowing parents-in-law rv, set camp for the night.
Lighthouse Långe Erik (Long Eric)
Sunset.
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And happy 4 july and all hollidays too our friends acrost the pond.
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That would be interesting but I would imagine it would be expensive to knock on their door with a gasifier and ask them to check it out, on the other hand it is pretty much the same process as in a cfb boiler minus the sand which I imagine would disturb the readings a bit so perhaps someone needs to bring this kind of gasification to their attention.
I am guessing some particles are needed to see flows easier but that should the ash, coaldust and perhaps a bit of soot take care of.
Well thank you J-O, I was not involved in that study… either. 
Haven’t I been trying to teach you that I don’t know anything
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Enjoy your vacation Göran 
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They don’t expect YOU to pay for gas in that thing do they?!?!?!
One can ONLY rightfully assume, they let you borrow it on the unspoken terms that they fully expect to have a gasifier attached to the thing by trips end! So they can vacation in it for free as well. OTHERWISE, the only alternative is they are going to have to camp in YOUR yard while you build one. 
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I don’t know if it would be or not. It is a bunch of grad students seemingly motivated by the global warming agenda and the application is -slightly- different, thus they COULD write another paper on it. Quite possibly, they also could get a grant for the research which I am sure they got one for the initial research.
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That is true. After all, someone is paying their rent and food and they do not work for free.
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Lange Erik in Holland? A lot of similar words, lots of times. Fries language comes close? When I am in that province I have the feeling that Dannark is not far away. 
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I was thinking of getting a taller drill press, and wouldn’t you know it the Harbor Freight had a sale on their 13" floor mounted drill press! 300 dollars, a lot of money to me but if my 8" benchtop is any indication of it’s sturdiness then it’ll last forever.
They didn’t have the cheapo drill press vice so I had to shell out for the 70 dollar “premium” one they sell now. Apparently they make better anvils now too. I should get one down the road and pick up blacksmithing again. I only had a short interest in it, just started messing around. I’ve done more smelting than forging.
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Good deal CodyT.
Just be very careful moving it around. Those H.D. floor stand models are super top heavy.
Of all my moving so far it was this gifted to me 1981 20" 16-speed DURACRAFT made-in-Taiwan drill press that almost did me in. Just under 300#'s. And most of that is in the top! Only thing comparablely difficult (and fall on you dangerous) moving around solo is upright air compressors on vertical tanks.
GET HELP for sure:
I must have been a lot stronger last I moved it 10+ years ago.
S.U.
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Duly noted, I have some Tractor Weights I’ll put on the base to help hold it down.
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I keep looking at those, but then look at the price tag, and go look in the want ads.
If you are going to keep it in the same spot, your best bet is to bolt it right to the floor. The problem with weights is usually they don’t fit over the base and can slide. The only other thing I have seen is like 1/4" sheet with bolts welded to it to give it a wider base to set weights on. (they may have tapped the holes in), and they had rods to hold the weights which were like disc brake rotors.
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Well, a woodgas powered rv i will get my own, this little 80hp four cylinder have some trouble keeping up with traffic as is
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Hi Joep, that is interesting, i didn’t know there was a lighthouse with the same name in Holland?
This one (Långe Erik) is on north point of Swedens next biggest island Öland, on the south point is lighthouse Långe Jan, named after st Johannes chapel, which the took stones from to build the lighthouse.
The languages really got a lot of similarities.
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Seas peoples really moved around. Mixing and “exchanging” a lot.
Funny thing about the seas. Most seeing at them as barriers. The few looking at them as adventure highways. Rivers to be traveled.
Look at the rapid expansion in distance air travel since WWII. Think about its spreading effects in languages and thoughts. Ideas and developments.
My now tested, found predomint Nordic genes with NO known family ever lived there histories.
Old, old went to Britannia “visitors” came there to stay? Then onto North America?
Or as recently as a single solo late 19th century ship jumping fisherman-whalerman, wanting to stay in North America tired of the sea? Found a love?
S.U.
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