[Bioconversion] Fireball Express!

[Thomas Reed]

Dear Jeff and All:

My friend and colleague, Agua Das, long ago (~1975, rainbow gathering 
etc.) discovered used school buses as the cheapest transportation and 
storage.  He has several in his driveway.  He wanted to park one in my 
upscale driveway, but Vivian nixed it.

Many of you know Das from his attendance at the Aprovecho meeting.  I 
hope Jeff will get to meet him because they think alike and act alike. 

Viva the school bus stove lab!

TOM REED              BEF

Jeff Davis wrote:
> Dear All,
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> After reading about the "Cheese Mobil" I was inspired to think about the 
> perfect "Fireball Express" machine. In the past I studied bus conversions and 
> came to the conclusion that a school bus was the best choice. Not for an 
> investment but machine wise. Lots of machine for the money. One of the safest 
> machines on the road. Think of it as a mid sized SUV. I can't ride/drive in a 
> car/jeep for over 50 miles and I no longer trust aviation flights.
>
> But now, a school bus is affordable and safe. The engine in the front is good 
> for those head on collisions and easy to work on. A school bus would also 
> have lots of room to mount your gasifier devices. Plenty of room for a 
> hammer, vise-grips, duct-tape, mechanics wire, gas torch/welder, etc. Heck, 
> you could also have room for the cement mixer. Don't forget the sawdust 
> bucket yak-ster!
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> Of course we would be fueled with paper fireballs. Room for bags and bags and 
> bags of corkey paper fireballs. Also room on the roof for more bags of 
> fireballs. Now get this!! We start down the road with all these bags of 
> corkey fireballs but when we stop at a burger joint we tell them that Frank 
> could not make it and we are here to drain the WVO tank (think fuel 
> reformer). Now we have all this WVO to soak into our corkey fireballs!!! 
> Well, that is if that will work in a down draft gasifier. We could really 
> extent the range of those corkey fireballs..... Think about it....
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> But it gets better. We also need a RV cook stove. So why not use the Woodgas 
> Camp Stove. How about the sweet little Bisschop engine to run the generator 
> and heat the Fireball Express? Hey, this Fireball Express could be a mobile 
> producer-gas demo machine!
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> Your bioconversion friend,
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> Jeff
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