Where can I find information about a wood powered generator?
Using wood to run an engine is not a new concept. There are three classes of wood-fired engines that I know of. 1) The first and most interesting is the Stirling Cycle hot-air engine. It simply works with a heat source and has been implemented on all scales. This was fairly well known in the mid to late 1800s and even into the early 1900s. I have seen table fans powered from a candle. Check it out in the links below. 2) The obvious steam engine can be powered by anything hot enough. Wood typically was not used as coal was a much cleaner burning heat source and was very space efficient for storing, moving, shoveling, etc. 3) In Germany during WWII, civilians could not get gasoline for their cars. I know of a man who rigged his car and several of his neighbor’s cars to run on wood. A burning chamber was rigged on the car, and the fire was slightly starved for air. Then the intake of the engine was drawn though a tube from the base of the fire. Essentially, the wood vapors, liberated by t
