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wood gas | 33 comments (33 topical, editorial)

Re: wood gas (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by farmerfrank on Tue Mar 29th, 2005 at 10:50:38 AM MST
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Depending on the LEL (Lower Explosive Limit) of the gas involved and the purity of your process you make have a good start to a big bomb. Hyrdrogen for instance is explosive anywhere from 3 to 97% in air so anywhere in that range it will explode if it finds an ignition source. Gasoline is not nearly as bad. Just something you may want to research before hand rather than after.

Re: wood gas (3.00 / 0) (#11)
by nothing to lose (nothingtolose175 at yahoo.com) on Thu Mar 31st, 2005 at 01:57:58 AM MST
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I beleave the gas would be methane and about as safe as propane or natural gas, or as dangerous, depending on the individual person. Some people do blow up their cookstoves or Bar-B-Que grills.
Methane is not basically all that dangerous, if it were most landfills and alot of peoples ceptic systems would be exploding all over the place :)

The other things like carbonmonoxide is a breathing hazzard that can kill, but I do not think explodes.
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Spelin and tpying are my strong points, not electronics.
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