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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 1030059" data-attributes="member: 369937">And one problem with trying to use wood gas in a gasoline engine, it gums up the valves after a while due to too much creosote in the gas from the wood, I have run a gas engine on methane gas from a cooker, we used pig poop as it worked out the best, stir up about 100 kilos of poop with some water in the cooker, give it a day or so too start do it's stuff, and it ran a little 5 HP engine for several days.The cooker used solar for heating the mix, the pigs ate garbage, the poop was free.Word of caution, the gas produced does not have a smell like city gas, so if you have a gas leak you wont know till it's too late, it should be setup in a well ventilated area, without any chance of a spark or open flame, this is why it was warmed by the Sun.</blockquote>