My former partner who built the gasifier has a Garn to heat his house. He went so far as to build a "Garn barn" to house it.
He would load it once a day for a firing and get heat for the next 24 hours in some cases. I don't know if he will recover his costs in a reasonable amount of time, but he has money to burn so it really doesn't matter. It is all part of his doomsday scenario. Dan On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:01 AM, "Smith, Todd" <todd.sm...@camc.org> wrote: > The ones that I have seen are called Tarm but yes, I am somewhat familiar > with those systems. There is an article that I would have to find that a > couple in NE with a 100 year old Cape Cod house using oil fired radiator heat > that installed a gasifer to cut costs. They left the oil burner as a backup > in case the water in the radiator fell below a certain temp as a failsafe. > > In the dead of winter, the owner would load the gasifer with 4-5 armloads of > wood once in the morning and once in the evening and they were able to heat a > 100 year old Cape Cod as well as heat domestic hot water and in a 30 day > period only burn 3 face cords. > > Pretty neat stuff! > Todd Smith > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On > Behalf Of Dan Penoff > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:48 > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Wood gas > > Todd, > > Just out of curiosity, are you familiar with the "Garn" system of heating > water? > > Dan > > > Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message > may be privileged and confidential. If this e-mail contains > protected health information, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is > strictly prohibited,except as permitted by law. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify the sender > immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your > computer. Thank you. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
