[Gasification] Homemade gas turbines

[David G. LeVine]

>I was googling about over the weekend and found that there are designs for
>making a gas turbines from vehicle turbochargers yet I never heard mention
>of such on this list. In fact I never saw much about using gas turbines on
>this list at all. Yet it seems like an obvious combination, gasifier + gas
>turbine + alternator = electricity. Is there some basic problem with this
>that is not immediately obvious?

Two:  Cost and efficiency.

There is a wood powered turbine on the web, but the efficiency is in 
the single digits.


David G. LeVine
Nashua, NH  03060