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Originally Posted by Philip Small
I made charcoal using a retort (fire on the outside, wood on the inside) and was impressed by the voluminous smoke it produced. Trying to figure out what my options were with using the smoke led me to other pyrolysis approaches. I have some photos up on Flickr on my backyard run at inverted downdraft gasification for making charcoal. |
I thought the retort method used lots of feedstock. That is why I went with a small raging fire in the popcorn can. Much less wasteful of feedstock as even much of the feedstock becomes charcoal once it's flames are extinguished.
