Can I burn wood to produce electricity?

This guy might be able to help.

http://home.earthlink.net/~dlaw70/12stmng.htm

I'm going to have to revist his site when I have more time

Well said Rambler

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I was gonna suggest searching for Mike Brown steam engines but there it is. I looked into this a few years ago coz I produce mountains of slabs from my sawmill that I can't give away. I also remember running across a site about a mono-tube boiler that's suposed to be alot safer than a tank type.

As a teen I knew a old guy [Sweet-water Clyde] who operated a goldmine, he had a wood-fired steam engine [no turbines or anything very efficient, just pistons to wheels].

He generated electricity to charge batteries, he compressed air to power his tools [jack-hammers], and he used it to power a combination: stamp-mill, stone-grinding-wheel, and shaker-sifter.

I dont know how much wood he had to chop every day, but it seemed that he spent every morning hauling and chopping wood, so he could run his equipment each afternoon.

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I just thought that I would round out the discussion by saying that it is technically possible to convert the heat directly into electricity.
http://www.hi-z.com/websit13.htm

Neat. What is the power consumption of the fans? Does the '20 watts net' power already have that deducted. Would be cool to figure out natural curcultating water jacket, eliminate the fans, to keep the temp difference & get all the power developed.

--->Paul