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"Just found an interesting article about an indian biomass-to-diesel/gas converter: Biomass gasifier-based power generation system. It shows also some drawings of the systems."

"Thanks for the kind clarification. I'm only a kind of universal dilettante and trying to make some links ... hope you don't mind."

"AFAIK you can use hot water only by extracting the thermal energy via heat exchanger. So you have warmth again, for heating etc. But I guess there exists methods to raise the temperatur, for instance by thermal heat pumps or engines, to produce…"

"What about compressed air or warmth stored within water?"

"Not sure whether this helps but ALL Power Labs has an Open Source Gasifier Experimenters Kit. As far as I understood the pyrolysis process gas is compressed to make oil so gasification might be a start. Probably you could also get in touch with the…"

"You have it right there. In the past I have seen wonderful projects fail because the inventors were convinced that the patent route was the right one and, once they started down that trail, found that the expense of taking out, maintaining and…"