Safety of Wood Gas [Gasification] storing wood gas.

[Jigme Rangdrol]

I have not seen the pages Tom Miles posted. They may make this point.

I suggest that the fastest way to get wood gas shut down at the federal 
level by those who own our law makers is to hand them a dead child or two.

It may be a fact that wood gas has been used for 200 years by ten 
billion children but a more important fact is that it has been killing 
human beings for 200 years and it only takes one and a good K street 
firm to get a ban going..
Over the years EVERY law and ordinance and safety regulation for these 
kinds of products was fought tooth and nail, just as they are today, by 
the people making money from the sales of the raw products and its 
accoutrements. Some human being or beings, a great many of them 
children, died for just about each and every law or rule.


It would be wise to advocate against installation of wood gas in any 
domestic setting by anyone other than a licensed [and bonded] installer. 
Not to say you can not but you should not. Like tobacco.
It would be better still to have an insurance company sign off on the 
installation prior to use.
If the insurance men won't sign off on property and liability there is 
going to be regulation sooner or later anyway so it would be prudent to 
kick the can down the road a bit.