4 ms·
You can get portable air compressors. The thing is, it takes some energy to actually compress that air... which invariably comes from either an electrically pow
by balabaster 12y ago
You can get portable air compressors. The thing is, it takes some energy to actually compress that air... which invariably comes from either an electrically powered or gas powered turbine. You could theoretically drive this by wood gas in a renewable fashion. In the building of my workshop, I'm considering air powered tools for this reason. Though, to some extent you could drive an alternator and generate electricity to run electrically powered tools. I'm not sure what a wood gas chainsaw would look like :P
- yellowapple 12y agoI was more talking about something along the lines of http://www.cottagecraftworks.com/windmills-wind-compressor-wind-driven-air-compressor-alt-energy-p-1780.html http://www.cottagecraftworks.com/windmills-wind-compressor-w... In the above case, neither electricity nor combustion are necessary. The above example does rely on wind power, however (though the site claims that wind speeds as low as 8 MPH are sufficient); I'm not sure if there are any similar compressors that run on other energy sources. Admittedly, some Amish communities do use diesel generators to power more conventional compressors, but I have a feeling that these would be easier to adapt to the posited post-apocalyptic wood-gas-fueled world.
- balabaster 12y agoThere's some neat ideas in here I hadn't considered before. Thanks.