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Topic: Iran war update: wood gasifier and gasometer setup
Blackest of Men started this discussion 2 hours ago#133,851
Did you know when you set wood on fire you’re not actually burning the wood itself? When you heat wood the wood releases gases called wood gas and the gas is what burns.
To produce wood gas you must heat wood in a low oxygen environment to prevent the wood gas from burning. This is called a wood gasifier. Once you create this gas, you can filter out the particulate matter by bubbling the gas up through water and then storing the gas in a gasometer.
Blackest of Men (OP) double-posted this 2 hours ago, 5 minutes later[^][v]#1,426,163
Okay, now that’s how you get your wood gas for use in an internal combustion engine, but that’s not what you want. What you want is to create a ballistic missile powered by wood gas, and I hear you loud and clear.
First of all, you’re going to want to pack as much power as possible in as small of a space as possible. The way you do this is you want to condense your wood gas down into liquid form by cooling it. You’re also going to want to do the same with your oxygen.
Blackest of Men (OP) quadruple-posted this 2 hours ago, 5 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,426,166
Now the problem is that shits not gonna work because the engine exhaust will be hotter than the engine bell, so you have to keep the engine bell cool by pumping cryogenic propellant through it (preferably not the oxygen because that’s stupid never try that). How do you put pipes inside of the walls of the bell nozzle? Well you can 3D print it but that’s hard and expensive, and you don’t want that. So use wax to form the pipes and build the outer wall through electroplating instead, then melt the wax out of the bell nozzle.
Blackest of Men (OP) quintuple-posted this 2 hours ago, 1 minute later, 21 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,426,167
And then the other problem you’re going to have is you’re not going to be able to get your fuel and oxidizer into the engine as fast as you can burn it, so you need a rocket engine inside your rocket engine that you can use to pump fuel into your rocket engine.