Gasifier Experimenters Kit - Pole Shift Survival Information

Untitled Documentsomewhat flexible steel and fabric sock. This is the "trachea", where the engine and pyro effectrespirate the made fuel into a swirling vortex of exhalation- which we might call the "throat offire". Fire effects in the throat of fire will include typical ICP-type pressurized liquidflamethrowers, and continuous and burst flow gaseous fuels.3. Abdomen- The abdomen will contain the gasification, liquefaction and digestion processors tomake fuel for both the onboard engines as well as all fire effects. The Mechabolic will only "burn"fuel it makes from trash at the event. Zero purchased petroleum products will be used.Real time gaseous fuel production for the engines and liquefaction processes will happen via adowndraft gasifier. This will be skidded with the associated cylone filter, cooling unit and dry gasfilter.A second and much larger updraft gasifier will make gaseous fuel for the wind slip stream fireeffect. This will burn with a clean blue flame, in a manner similar to the images here, but at muchlarger scale.A third skid will hold various process tanks to support Fischer Tropsch liquefaction of the gasifiergas to a mixed gasoline/diesel product fuel. We are choosing to use the FT process, as do manyDIY liquefaction efforts, as it is the only liquefaction process that can operate at atmosphericpressures, thus avoiding the difficulty and safety issues of negotiating fuel transactions under bothpressure and heat.A fourth skid will hold the anerobic digester and inflatable bladder storage, wound into an intestinelike shape. Waste wet biomass food scrapes, unlike manures, allow for fast digestion processes,going from solid to methane gas in one to two days. The product gas will fuel the central fireeffects, as well as an "eternal flame" at the anus of the creature.All these components will be modular and containerized, so the resulting "sculpture" is madereasonably easy for transport and show in future venues. A major goal of this project is to exit outthe end with a collection of containerized alt fuel "demonstration untis", ready for storage,transport and "roll right off the trailer" use in future contexts, both art and engineering.Locomotion Scenarios:http://whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/physpecifics.html (3 of 6) [10/9/2008 08:18:04]Ideally we want the Mechabolic to move so as to "scavenge" for its food/fuel. Early designsconsidered building the creature as a sort of wheeled train, but the amount of axles, wheels,linkages, drive shafts, bearings, etc etc to do as such is daunting. the vehicle undercarriage alonecould easily take up too much of the project time and effort.So currently we are exploring the possibility of just giving it a flat belly and making it slither. Or in