Wood Powered Electrical Generator

Wood Powered Electrical Generator ENERGY Wood Burners (65) 14-5-23 "Farmers can make more money growing trees than crops," says Bernard Wilkins, developer of a new wood-powered genera-tor system that he says produces more than double the annual income per acre of wheat, corn and other crops. Wilkins exhibited a working prototype of his wood gas generator along with a first-ofits-kind tree harvester at the Royal Show. All components of the generating system mount on a single portable platform. It consists of a wood burning firebox that produces wood gases that are fed to a VW Beetle engine that's been modified to run on wood gas. It in turn drives a 100 kw genera-tor. The electricity generated is either used on the farm or sold to utility companies. Farmers can produce a wood "crop" in 3 years by growing hybrid poplars, according to Wilkins. They can plant the trees on set-aside acres, and harvest the wood with a special-built harvester that cuts and chops wood in one pass. The wood is then fed into the generating system which burns 24 hrs. a day, every day. The system has been in testing for three years. Wilkins hopes to have a commercial unit on the market next year. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bernard C. Wilkins, Power Management Associates, Henshaw Farm, Todmorden, Lancs. OL 14 6QR England (ph 0706814911).

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