Jim Mason
San Francisco, CA
jimmason .(at). whatiamupto .(dot). com
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POWER ENGINEERING
Gasifier Experimenters Kit: A "Lego System" of Gasification
The GEK kit offers beginners through experts an easy way build, customize and compare a wide variety of gasification and pyrolysis reactor types. Use the resulting as to power internal combustion engines, heaters, forges,
and high altitude fire effects.
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Power Labs: Tools for Power Hacking :
A collaboration of alt energy enthusiasts and innovators, exchanging
resources towards open source energy solutions. Helping DIYers-to-NASA
scientists move ideas to implementation, across all forms of power generation
and conversion.
Off-grid
machine shop
A DIY large-scale off-grid power system. 33kw of inverters. Three phase
configuration. 5000amp/hr 48vdc battery array (17,000lbs). 4kw solar pv
panels. Two biodiesel generators. 1,000,000 hamsters in an underground
lair, spinning their wheels . . .
Pictures
| Online system meter | System
history logs | PV graphs
| Battery graphs
Shipping container based integrated power systems. Solar in. Electricity, heat, refrigeration, potable water, and net connectivity out. The "grid-in-a-box". Drop it off the trailer and go.
