Gasifier Experimenters Kit

Untitled Documentcontemporary carbon and solar transactions- whether through theirforms of photosynthesis to carbohydrates to animal respiration, orthrough the gasifier/digestor preparations of hydrocarbons tocombustion to mechanical energy to electrical energy.somehow i think there is art here. but haven't quite figured it outyet. though i think it looks somehting like this . . .here's a musing from the shipyard list today about such that i thoughyou might enjoy.----------------------------------------------------------------------from the shipyard list:subject: scented fuelsdate: todaycontinuing on the idea of "fuel is food" for the metabolic needs ofour artifical life machines. injesting the samehydrocarbons/carbohydrates that we do, exhaling the same co2 and h2oas we do. all of which goes round and round in the fabulous organicchemistry of life. with solar radiation providing the power toendothermically restructure the C and H into better sprung forms, sowe can "burn" it again, exhaling heat and co2 and h2o again. remindingus yet again that the world is on fire. and man and machine burnthrough largely the same respiratory process, through largely the samechemical transformations. (the gasifier being the stomach in allthis. the v-8 being the lungs and blood.)but as we don't treat our "energy needs" as a raw energy problem, butrather as the creative idiom of "cuisine" in all its forms, whereby wefind sensual pleasure, sociality, relationship to land and distantcultures, etc etc, it seems that we should show our machines the samerespect, and enjoy the pleasures of better fuels with them, instead ofsuffering with the junk we usually feed them. that as we powerourselves with pleasure, we should also power our machines withpleasure. we could all eat gruel and live. but who does? no one.therefore it seems there is an opportunity in the biodiesel industryto sell scented fules. fuel alcohols as well.http://whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/mechabolicthesis.html (4 of 9) [10/9/2008 08:16:56]