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Video of Honda Accord with GEK driving
Jim Mason, All Power Labs, Berkeley, CA, January 8, 2009

Here's the video of the first drive of the honda with the modified GEK in the trunk. The drive was around oakland and Berkeley California.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyazgRBtq8&eurl=http://www.instructables.com/id/Convert_your_Honda_Accord_to_run_on_trash/&feature=player_embedded

Again the point of this side hopper adaptation of the GEK is to get the gasifier into a more horizontal form factor, which better fits in cars, as well as eliminate the drying loads from the combustion zone.

The architecture here uses the waste heat in the output gas to do the drying. The goal is fuel entering the reactor at 0% moisture, then adding it back in as steam via the preheating "air inlets" to the degree the combustion temps allow.

We also entered the honda in a contest on the DIY site, www.Instructables.com, with a pile of craftsman tools as the award.

Tools are good. We all need more of them. So if you would like, please go vote for us, which is also generally a vote for more gasification in the public eye. the instructable is here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Convert_your_Honda_Accord_to_run_on_trash/

The instructable has a full copy of the GEK gasifier plans and
fabrication/assembly instructions. It also allows downloading them
as a single pdf, which our wiki can't do.

Jim

Escape From Berekely Oct 11

Alabama Bio-Truck Coast to Coast and Back and www.res-gasification.net

DL: I popped in on the Escape From Berkeley last night. Everyone was chomping at the bit to get started.....drinking. A fun time was had by all. I will post more pictures soon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33948674@N00/?saved=1

Escape fromBerekely Website http://www.escapefromberkeley.com/

More info on the race events: <a href=""http://www.escapefromberkeley.com">http://www.escapefromberkeley.com.

Frank Shields Demonstrates the Gasifier Experimenter's Kit (GEK)
Tom Miles, August 8, 2008

Frank with GEK at ETHOS Stove Camp 2008

GEK and Burner

Frank Shields demonstrated Jim Mason's Gasifier Experimenter's Kit (GEK) at the ETHOS 2008 Stoves Camp in Cottage Grove, Oregon, August 5-9, 2008. Frank gave the gasifier it's first trials at the Stoves Camp which is held annually at Aprovecho Research Center to train people in making improved cooking stoves for developing countries.(See Biomass Cooking Stoves http://www.bioenergylists.org)

Gasifier Experimenters Kit (GEK)
Jim Mason, March 4, 2008

Gasifier Experimenters Kit

The Gasifier-Powered Cafe Racer: The Car of Yesteryear . . . Today!

Chicken John converted his 1975 pickup truck to run on coffee grounds or walnut
shells or pretty much any other trash you can burn. And not only does it run on
trash, but it's a carbon-negative vehicle. Seriously. The truck itself is
completely unmodified. Chicken just added a gasifier to it. It can run on gasoline with the flip of a
switch. Gasification isn't some new-fangled technology. In Europe during World
War II, over a million vehicles ran using wood burning gasifiers when gasoline
and diesel were unavailable. The Cafe Racer: the car of yesteryear . . .
today! How does it work? Watch the video . . . "at

http://www.chickenjohn.com/mayor/innovation.html

Pictures of Woodgas Truck
Jim Mason, to Gasification Discussion List, April 13, 2007