[Gasification] BRUSH ENERGY
Thomas Reed
tombreed2010 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 06:17:49 CDT 2011
Jim
So far my adopted grandson, Shivayam Ellis, has been making my BrushSaw attachment, and he is my co inventor on the patent. He has a website, ONECUT?, or similar. You two should meet, being very clever and congenial.
I'll bring you one when I come to your Berkeley workshop...
Tom Reed
Dr Thomas B Reed
President, The Biomass Energy Foundation
www.Woodgas.com
On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:01 PM, jim mason <jimmmason at gmail.com> wrote:
> i agree this is a great idea. it is likely a way to get good little chunkettes without lots of machinery. slash is a very significant fuel resource in many places we've found. in the tropical bush, it is likely the most important and accessible.
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> the electric chainsaws have also come a long way. if your gasifier is part of a genset making electricity, you could use that to run the chainsaw and be self contained without need for petrol.
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> tom, there are many cnc laser cutting services that will cut out parts like this for you. the laser makes a near perfectly clean cut, without any slag. it is much easier and cleaner than the plasma cutter based systems.
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> sadly, a cnc laser system costs multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. a cnc plasma 15k or so. maybe someday. in the interim, there are many services cropping up that will do small runs for you on their machines.
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> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Walt Patrick <windward at gorge.net> wrote:
> On 06/05/2011 01:47 PM, Thomas Reed wrote:
> I have developed an attachment for chainsaws that will reduce a 5 foot tall pile of brush to a 1 foot pile of worth sticks in 15 minutes. See it in action at
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> Great idea! The website says that it's not shipping yet; would you please post a notice here when it is?
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> Thanks,
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> ~~ Walt
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