Windhager PuroWIN - wood chip boiler - zero-emission gasification boiler with stainless steel burner

The PuroWIN wood chip boiler incorporates Windhager’s patented updraft gasification combustion chamber and is the cleanest appliance of its type in the world.
The principle deployed by Windhager is to take advantage of the filtering effect of wood chip.

[@karlsinger4760]

You know it’s a good commercial if you put it on KZbin and people actually watch it to the end

[@redpillblupill]

lol yeah..... a FIVE MINUTE ONE at that!

[@MrC4ctu5]

It's at the very least an Infomercial, they actually tell you how it works instead of what emotions you should feel while using it.

[@nogum9763]

its not a commercial, but a showcase for those who look for it

[@devinoakley4063]

It's legitimately a beautiful ad.

[@Sarconthewolf]

@@MrC4ctu5 Great point.

[@pplesandoranges]

*_Brothers and sisters, the algorithm has brought us together again._*

[@thegamer5367]

Indeed it has.

[@Me-er6ie]

Indeed it has.

[@sup3826]

Indeed it has

[@Joyboy......]

Yes \

[@michael_angelo]

Glad to be here.

[@ffadriala]

Me at 3am: KZbin: Here watch an ad about wood chip boiler Me at 3:05am: That's amazing!

[@medicman4444]

Hmm day 8 of cov19 locked in I'm Sachin this at 340am. Tell me a few things I want to know about the most of it is where can I put it in my house do I have to build a outdoor boiler shed and wood chip storage dry stores shed outside of my housewhy is there no further information about how it integrates of a kind of heating is it basically a hothead heating system solution or a water storage radiator boiling system similar to current gas boiler systems is it just something that generates heat at somehow transmitted in the house

[@nickzproductions]

2:23 AM here XD

[@SaphirosDragonthera]

6:14am and have work at 12:00pm xD

[@calvinthedestroyer]

LOL ok youtube.. :)

[@pastione2835]

wtf... I watched the vid at 3:00am, too. Is this stuff time-based??

[@Bramon83]

My big take away.... Unreal engine 4 looks amazing no matter where it's used

[@logitech4873]

What makes you think it's UE4? Did I miss something?

[@chrisjacobsen1659]

This is so not unreal engine, probably blender or other cad rendering software.

[@Bramon83]

Because it's the most common. UE4 is used on Green screen sets for various shows. NASCAR racehub for instance. All UE4. might not be. But I'm a betting man.

[@logitech4873]

@@Bramon83 It's absolutely not the most common. Using real-time renderers for product visualization is pointless and highly unusual when you can just use offline renderers which are easier to use, and with far better result. It's more likely to be V-Ray, Arnold, Maxwell, etc... You shouldn't mislead people and speak as if you know something when you're just making an uneducated guess.

[@hadoukan722]

How about Unity. It looks like it improved a lot over the years

[@bodesbodes9408]

"I wonder how much it costs." *doesn't note price* "I can't afford it".

[@soapman8970]

@@littlekirby6 what the purpose of this machine?? Because I didn't understand what this machine make for?

[@MaxThomas79]

@@soapman8970 It turns wood chips into combustible gas, for power.

[@squ1r7y]

@@soapman8970 for heating your home and/or supplying hot water. my house is heated with a boiler with water lines that run through concrete floors

[@soapman8970]

@@MaxThomas79 oh...like electric generator power plant...thanks you for sharing information

[@soapman8970]

@@squ1r7y that how it for.....thanks for sharing information...

[@garypaisley]

Assuming that your wood chips meet the German DIN standards for wood chips

[@dhdoctor6108]

That gave me a good chuckle.

[@JereYaps]

😂 😂 👌

[@jsullivan05]

Idk what y'all are on about, but i'm stationed at Rammstein right now and the quality of life here is absolutely amazing, we've already moved our family here, the regulations aren't even a fraction as bad as the news made it out to be, they conveniently forgot how nice it is too, can't believe i'd ever be some eurotrash, but here we are. Beware Fox my friends, after experiencing considerably more of the world than just Texas I kinda feel like a giant ass for everything I said/thought before, I was fooled quite hardily :-/.

[@jackripperchen4492]

No, as Germany imports them from Canada and Indonesia. Destroying there the forests, but to say " We are green"...fucking liars.

[@jsullivan05]

@Peter Hicks Again idk what you're on about, but the car culture is pretty strong here and I see plenty of kids with all the after market shit, I don't really care as I grew out of that over a decade ago so even if it was true it wouldn't really mean shit to me. And yeah I'm quite alright with the "COMPLIANCE" thing, seeing as we live in a society and not some post apocalyptic nightmare, we all have to contribute to the world to make it a better place and make our communities worth living in, or you can be a selfish prick, either way bud it doesn't change the fact that this place is nice AF (most of it, there are of course some shitty places here and there, not nearly as common as they are in the USA though)

[@aerball]

I dont know how the hell I found this video but the people who made the animation deserve a raise.

[@pussymcstanky]

So, first of all, this looks like a marvelous machine! Secondly, this reminds me a lot of the process for producing wood-gas. You put all of the wood in a sealed can, you poke a hole at the top of the can and then you heat up the can. The wood releases gas that is flammable. Here, the principle is the same, but it is also filtered. Colin Furze tried to make a wood-gas powered lawnmower, but the components were getting clogged up with tar, while here the tar/ash is filter from the wood chips themselves! Ingenious!

[@Chernobog958]

amazing what you can achieve with cgi

[@timothykeith1367]

It's an updraft wood chip gasifier, which are usually plagued by carbon build-up from tar and charcoal that blocks upward gas flow. When burning coal, charcoal or very dry wood the tar build-up can be minimal, but its going to be an ongoing problem.The updraft system is a natural filter because the hot gases must pass through the unburned wood, but the same clogs the outward gas flow. A home built updraft gasifer might require daily manually breaking the hard mass. This automated design has a horizontal actuator to break up the charcoal and tar. It's nifty, but spendy.

[@eighteen22s]

Where do you put the ribs and briskets?

[@L3gion3r]

nice 1

[@hadoukan722]

Next to the combustion chamber

[@TreDogOfficial]

Asking for a friend who may or may not be Mark Zuckerberg

[@discombubulate2256]

@@TreDogOfficial someone asked me, do i smoke meat?

[@DiahRhiaJones]

They stay in the living beings they belong to because murder is wrong.

[@Ben-ie1ht]

KZbin Recommended this video for me even though i don't have any use for it it's quite interesting

[@rfitzgerald2004]

I've been watching some videos on alternative power and living off-grid, I guess that's why I saw it. But I'm also a keen gadget fan

[@kilroy2517]

Oh, you need one. _Consume. Obey._

[@twothumbguy]

Fascinating what you have done with the ignition process and consumption of fuel. The "flameless" touch is enviable.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

The wooden stove from the future :-) Great tech !

[@333stalker]

it still uses wood as a source anyway. Not like it spun up dynamo free energy for heating. Another technology that would requests human to deforest the world.

[@icermun8172]

@@333stalker Yes it would need to be paired with responsable forestry but could work well if people were diligent with fule sourcing.

[@0plp0]

Not from future, from passt. Google holzgas motor.

[@jaywillzxrp2691]

@@333stalker another tree hugger , corporate logging needs to go to hell, but everyone can get an acre of land with trees on it and use and plant new trees. Ive bought 1.66 acres all forest for 1000 usd before. Wood for life. The system is corrupt and destructive yea, but changing the system would give enough for everyone.

[@user-bl4oq7fd8d]

@@jaywillzxrp2691 well, it's most likely more efficient and better for the ecosystems if you just harvest the shit out of smaller forests compared to everyone cutting down trees everywhere ;)

[@ShintekBeats]

I like the music

[@lobsermahn7262]

He likes the music

[@snapboy1309]

yes good music good product

[@gabecalderon2043]

He likes the music

[@nathanielluke2084]

He likes the music

[@Aaron-ru6ld]

He likes the music

[@takix2007]

As some already wrote here, wood is burning, so it releases CO2 and some good ol' H2O, so it is not zero emission. "Zero *particle* emission" would be correct and less misleading.

[@PrivatelyHanging]

What is the percentage of co2 in the atmosphere? Do you know the critical importance of co2 in the atmosphere? What exactly is required for plants and trees to grow other than H2O? When a volcano erupts, what's the amount of non particle co2 emitted and how does that effect climate?

[@rlguerrero2263]

For each ton of CO2 released by wood combustion there are several others hold by trees which still growing. That's why we Brazilians needs to build power plants fuelled by Amazon firewood

[@worcestershire-sauce]

@@rlguerrero2263 You know, it takes a couple of years for a tree to grow, and we should be making houses and furniture out of that wood, not burning it. Re-using wood is keeping the CO2 trapped. Burning wood / oil / coal is releasing the CO2 back, in the atmosphere, wich contributes to global warming.

[@worcestershire-sauce]

@@PrivatelyHanging I dont think we need more CO2 its already at about 70% and yes there was times when the earth was covered in ice, and it was saved by volcanoes, but right now we are litteraly melting the ice. Idk what you mean by particle co2 ?

[@keithshaw2269]

Don't believe the lies being sold to us these days, it's all to get us to pay a tax.They falsify data to prove their myth. Burning wood is part of the carbon cycle. If we all burnt wood and planted trees, there would be zero net carbon released. They want you to believe that humans are the problem, all lies. Try pumping carbon dioxide into a greenhouse and see what happens, the plants grow. Btw, almost all the glaciers are growing, they are hiding this data because they can't explain it without disproving themselves.

[@Evangelion543]

I've watched it all the way to the end. It's a very friendly commercial enterprise for a boiler. I loved it through & through. SMARTSOME!!

[@benihanah]

I did not know I needed a PuroWIN wood chip boiler until today. Thank you KZbin algorithm.

[@wizzlefits]

Modernizing a 182 year old technology. Interesting, and nicely done. At least it looks better than a home built unit.

[@catchingsomezzzz]

does anyone own this or are we all just watching a commercial because it looks interesting

[@ChrisBigBad]

Nope, just watching because of "algorithm"

[@a.m.blackfig638]

Watching for engineering and machining ideas

[@niallwildwoode7373]

It turned up while I was researching woodgas generators. I may buy one when I win the lotto.

[@madmik3400]

I am a Technican. I work on them on a Daily base. Great Product 👌

[@AlarmedKat]

ok. we live in the tropics so i don't think we need this thing but, damn, i'm happy to see something as simple as burning wood chips taken to the highest level.

[@Sammers987Man]

You know it's a good commercial when it's recommended to you out of nowhere and you end up vibing till the end

[@Dyuste]

This looks fantastic! But to be clear, they mean particle emissions. This produces CO2 along with any other combustion source.

[@xeran]

Ofcourse it produces co2 because its a combustions, but you can make it (near) 0 emissions if you buy the woodchips from a renewable source that plants new trees that would use up the CO2 that is produced "is what marketing guys would say"

[@griflet1]

@@xeran There will always be waste wood from certain processes, which can either be composted or burned. Both processes release the co2. So except for particle emission there isn't much difference. But it's not always waste wood being used.

[@bm5298]

go nuclear or go home

[@Hadrian9707]

Ah yes, thanks KZbin for another quality video once more! This is definitely what I'm dying to watch at 3 in the morning~

[@williamdiffin28]

Brilliant. Governments should give these to every household. I bet it costs a fortune.

[@ardalla535]

More info is needed. The chips trap the pollutants, but those chips eventually get burned and release what they have trapped. Also, you have to haul in a bunch of wood chips and have them piled in your yard. Then you shovel them into a large hopper and put a lid on it. The hopper discharges into the feed system that goes into the boiler. What happens if those chips get rained on before you get shovel them? How does the average homeowner -- not to mention a person in an apartment -- deal with a large pile of wood chips. Then there's the expense of the whole operation and the price of the system. What's the break even time? Think of how much wood you need to warm your house for the winter. The average home needs 3 cords of wood. That's a LOT wood chips being delivered to your house each year. Wood is solid and dense. Chips are about half air and take up twice the space. Also, who delvers wood chips? Hardly anyone. You would have to find a supply near your home. Not just sawdust from a mill; you actually need chips. This system won't work with sawdust.

[@62shalaka]

Fascinating! It's like a "smart pellet stove".

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

and that is all it is. marketing fills in the gaps. a smart pellet stove is no better than a "dumb" pellet stove, this thing has feature creep out the ass.

[@matekochkoch]

Windhager is also a producer of pellet stoves. This is a special version for people / regions with access to cheap wood chips.

[@joaovasco3969]

The amount of moving parts combined with heat and the brasive nature of wood ash would probably lead to lots of maintenance.

[@allstarwoo4]

There's like 4 moving parts 2 augers and 2 plates. And augers are used in mines for smaller material. And we have steel capable of handling this type condition for the plate.

[@lucasolmedo1245]

@@allstarwoo4 Two igniters and inducer fan. still think if you clean in once a month you would be fine. Even if you cleaned it quarterly.

[@allstarwoo4]

@@lucasolmedo1245 Even with the fan and 2 ignitions that's still nothing. If the fan is located in the intake a filter would prolong it's life and igniters are cheap and replaceable.

[@corknakovastein]

auger systems are generally easy to maintain and perform work on.

[@VinylToVideo]

I wouldn't worry about the augers as some old Iron Fireman coal systems are still out there working 80 years later but other moving parts like the internal dust clearing plates would be more a concern.

[@AngryIrishman0007]

I can not believe that this machine does not produce any energy! This is mind blowing to see a high end wood stove. The possibility for this product is endless.

[@Random-rt5ec]

Wow that is amazing. If I invest in a wood chipper machine I could feed this boiler and enjoy free energy to power & heat my home forever. This is the ultimate off grid capable prepper must have.

[@Chaosman88]

Where does the wood come from? Not exactly free, is it? And how is it environment friedly to go back to wood burning again?

[@jeffmeyers3837]

@@Chaosman88 Wood comes from...trees. Those with forested land know there are dead, dying, and diseased trees. Forest management and fire mitigation results in an abundance of firewood. What would you do, let the dead wood sit and rot while you freeze to death? lol

[@wiretrees]

Thanks for putting this well made video up about your great design. I can not afford that unit but I think I could build a smaller one to keep me from freezing to death. It would be quite primitive compared to yours and would be super dangerous and fall apart after extended use but smoke free heat might end up being a precious thing if SHTF so thank you very much.

[@SD-tj5dh]

Look up FEMA gasifier. They show you how to effectively build one from 30 gallon drums and old gas cans. You can always use a series of motorised valves and controllers to monitor the system and automate the process.

[@kightremin]

The CG is really good.

[@juriaanromkes7558]

unreal engine 4 ?

[@erti655]

just what i was looking for, this totally comes in handy in my daily life

[@Jaksary]

I'm not sure how you got youtube to recommend me this, but nice work with your product. I wish I had one to test it out long term.

[@brianbassett4379]

Lower the combustion temperature, fill the chamber with dry bud, and fill the house with vapor... Party on, Garth!

[@haphazardlyhype]

I like how you think

[@neilh.4385]

This doesn't just blow the combustion fumes right into the house ... otherwise you would die of carbon monoxide poisoning. There is a fan that blows air over some sort of heat exchanger, transferring the heat without filling the house with toxic fumes.

[@brianbassett4379]

@@neilh.4385 Thank you, Neil!

[@seanconway1154]

For the people complaining about the zero emissions claim, it can be said because the wood chips used are declared a carbon neutral fuel. The growing & sequestering of carbon cancels out the burning of the carbon. So the net emission is zero. The particle/soot emission is also so low it's negligible.

[@leeknivek]

There's also no heavy metals as with particulates from petroleum fuel. And, a sealed fire like this can burn 99% of gas - without off gassing much carbon monoxide.

[@MentalEdge]

This isn't just wood chip burning... This is ADVANCED wood chip burning!

[@nightslayers]

this makes me sleepy but in a good way super relaxing

[@dantevortex]

"zero emission" Yeah, except not really. Still, cool design though.

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

It still emit CO2, but your furniture will not have this annoying layer of ash a cheminé produces.

[@Pentti_Hilkuri]

Still more zero emission than "zero emission" electric cars. =)

[@gpisic]

Wood is a zero emission fuel source if you burn it as clean like this boiler, since replanting a forrest will suck up the same amount of CO2 you released by burning it.

[@Murf181]

@@gpisic Dude, you copy and paste this comment which does not make sense everywhere.

[@Mislavestina]

@@gpisic You can burn a forest faster than it can grow

[@thinhpham4713]

I'll take 2. Really it looks amazing, I don't even know what it for.

[@dubious7424]

"Windhager PuroWIN - *_wood chip boiler_* - zero-emission gasification boiler with stainless steel burner" i mean it's says it in the title

[@3deeguy]

That is actually genius. Well done!

[@DarkSide-yn3sp]

I don't have a wood chip boiler, but if for some reason I need one, ill make sure I get this one

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

We need something like this in villages and small towns especially when more of us are spending more time in doors.

[@ronaldli5]

Very high quality animation.. Must've taken a lot of work and time to render that detail.

[@h00db01i]

unreal is surprisingly fast, only the flame might take a little more RAW POWA

[@adrianbik3366]

Wow, that's an amazing visualization

[@mattedwards4533]

A Japanese water heater works similar to this only without the automation. It heats water well and last a long time using sawdust for fuel. A lot of farmers used this system.

[@jpsousa4]

This isn't "zero emossions" so much as it's "clean burning"

[@djSpinege]

how is this animation so good lmao

[@SerunaXI]

Spend enough money on marketing and you won't hardly have to pay anything for development.

[@boltonky]

Mint design and quite easily achieved....the hard parts doing it

[@Petrezen1982]

Very nice eco friendly system. You burn wood leftovers "wood chips" are basicly trash from wood elements production, secondly you can recycle stainles steel with no problems. Im very interested in such systems, good job !

[@dadinggo]

Solid engineering. Self-filtering was a great idea.

[@nedlyest]

Isn't this just a fancy wood gasifier?

[@eriknielsen1849]

Somtimes I go look at old patents if I have a technical challenge. Many times things now are Don more complicated to get new patents and create a money flow to the company. Not to improve the outcome. Actually a litle saad

[@jeffclark5024]

It’s a fancy pellet grill. And yes I want it

[@yourbabyboyfriendonlyme2485]

When videos just show animations and not a working machine it's not for clarification is because it's theoretical which means the emission bs is a bs lie. Also the emission talk is bs to make it sound good(not because it's impressive but because we have no idea what the hell they are talking about because it's nonsense gibberish ).

[@iamtheomega]

prolly $20K fancy.

[@Resologist]

Exactly, and if the wood chips aren't perfectly dry so as to "filter" any "emissions" (probably heavy tars), it's going to fail to work. Looks like any repairs could be very costly!

[@Doubleaa500]

I don't think I need it, but I want it!!

[@Dfanch]

This is brilliant! I need one!

[@coreytaylor447]

the wood becoming relevant as a fuel source again: "you couldn’t live with your failure, and where did it bring you? back to me"

[@clipdump]

wood is a terrible fuel source, still.

[@coreytaylor447]

@@clipdump its still an easily renewable and source-able fuel that in a tight pinch for something like emergency power you can easy get your hands on

[@autistpatrol2493]

People discovered fast grow wood like black locust trees (and bamboos), thus certain woods and wood like lumber are viable as renewables

[@Scott.E.H]

This still begs the question: Why does one need a woodchip boiler? And why did the algorithm bring me here?

[@Dewkeeper]

Replaces a gas or oil based boiler for homes. Very nice if you've got a source of wood chips that's cheaper than either per unit energy.

[@fernandocamargo7233]

@@Dewkeeper Thanks for answering! I was wondering the same thing over and over haha

[@r.casagrande8689]

It was a show of engineering. Good stuff.

[@soviet_salsa2983]

every few months i see this recomended, i like it

[@christophnordheim4832]

As a German chimney sweep, I am very impressed and excited! Nice concept so far but why did i never hear from this in the last 4 years before? :/ AND did this still work with other fuels like pellets?

[@Fractal227]

also work with pellets

[@SD-tj5dh]

If you create negative air pressure above the fuel you can burn anything that's dry enough and organic. You could fill it with dog eggs if you wanted

[@asd1245d]

"emissions so low they can hardly be measured"

[@Tremori_A]

I dont know how I got here or what Id need this for but that was a beautiful video

[@areanem]

My god how did they get me to sit through this whole thing?! I have ZERO use for this amazing feat of engineering!

[@jeffclark5024]

What happens if the foreign object doesn’t fall out? Or ash door stuck open?

[@timothygooding9544]

-"zero-emission" -burns wood but fancy

[@gpisic]

Wood is a zero emission fuel source if you burn it as clean like this boiler, since replanting a forrest will suck up the same amount of CO2 you released by burning it.

[@dappa4608]

it's burning the gas from the wood not the wood

[@heyhoe168]

@lda sorry to break it to you but ANY flame is ALWAYS the gas burning. So the idiot is the one who bought this fancy 20000$ alternative to hobo heater.

[@knb_the_king302]

Yes KZbin, this is exactly what I want to watch at 11 pm😂

[@henriwood9692]

Who knew the Germans were so good at making super efficient furnaces, It even deals with foreign bodies!

[@AbdulHannan-uv6ym]

What type of wood chips we are talking about, are there any specifications ?

[@rlguerrero2263]

In Brazil, planted Eucalyptus On Europe, wood from ancestral forests both internal as imported

[@AbdulHannan-uv6ym]

@@rlguerrero2263 what about cotton ?

[@rlguerrero2263]

@@AbdulHannan-uv6ym Cotton is not a great yielder when it comes for biomass for fuel. But it's stem and husks may be used however. Are you a producer?

[@framegrace1]

​@@rlguerrero2263 In Catalonia, we use almond nut shell. It's perfect, super dry, high relative superfice and low in tars. Not to talk that is a byproduct of another industry, no need to grow it, so it's use is not replacing any other crops.

[@JaaaaaaaC]

This thing is probably prohibitively expensive. The wood chips going into it have to be in such perfect conditions. Youre better off sitting around a burning tire.

[@rafastepien4303]

up to 25 000 $

[@JaaaaaaaC]

@@rafastepien4303 yes this thing can't compare to free burning rubber.

[@toxicgamers1113]

@@rafastepien4303 too much...

[@larrywood8933]

It's for buildings powered by woodchip

[@JaaaaaaaC]

@@larrywood8933 how would this compare to burning gasoline in an old coffee can?

[@Ryan-zv3os]

Incredible engineering.

[@robertzeurunkl8401]

Pretty neat idea.

[@chefdeprestigellc8855]

That's dope What's the sticker price USD?

[@ChuRainsa]

Me:Time to sleep... KZbin:NO

[@shawnyoung5960]

Ain't that the truth. I will be up till 6:30 again this morning.

[@onemansjunk01]

Simply ingenious....

[@jtone9564]

i have no idea why youtube recommended this video for me...but i like it XD

[@TerryDeck]

I live in Canada and would love to purchase on for myself and possibly sell to my customers. I am a heating contractor. Could you please contact me on how I could become a dealer.

[@madvulcan8964]

Love it.

[@kvhidersine1857]

one of the sexiest cg I've seen in a while.

[@EverybodyEditsHacks]

3:33 That animation is sick

[@heyhoe168]

Yeah, the animation is probably the most expensive part of this "product"

[@TerryDeck]

How do I get this company to contact me, as I have contacted them two times on there web site and reply. I would like to purchase one but no one will contact me.

[@bledlbledlbledl]

"zero-emission" my @$$, it uses combustion so there are going to be emissions of exhaust gases! (although, it does look like a very efficient way to burn wood)

[@havefun123for]

while it's not strictly zero-emission, wood gasification is very significantly more efficient than traditional wood burning.

[@jishnupremji4140]

That's true

[@kristian4243]

This must be so fun engineering

[@brettblades9320]

Instead of wood chips, can this thing burn wood pellets? Is there a specific type of wood preferred? Edit: I guess they have pellet furnaces as well. I am curious how much wood would be needed to run this per month?

[@colepeltier8472]

So whats this devices purpose? Is it to heat a large room or something?

[@eliasschroder9967]

its for central heating. you heat your entire house and your water with it

[@dierkrieger]

Wow, technology has come so far since the dawn of humans. We went from burning wood to burning wood, WOW.

[@jamesdeegan7365]

i know right, we went from useing fires to heat water into steam to turn a turbine to make power, all the way to useing uranium to heat water to turn it to steam to turn a turbine

[@Fingerlazerz]

DUde good content im subbed! cant wait for more!@!! :)

[@satrioarif1797]

can't believe I sit through 5 min of the woodchip burner ad. Props to your creative team

[@unsmote1560]

Woot woot waiting for thunderf00t to hop along and take a look at this.

[@S3l3ct1ve]

Great tech involves great maintenance costs. Drawbacks might be that if there is no electricity, there is no way to maintain burning process and other processes such as chip intake, ash removal etc.. The machine has sophisticated elements that cost arm and a leg to change them when needed. Even simple parts such as ash removal plates have to be made with deadly precision which means you wont be able to order them at your local shop, you will have to buy it from the manufacturer. SMART means detectors, which cost a lot and tend to be weak points of many SMART operating machines. This also means that the chip quality has to be specified and strict, in order for the smart systems to work without interruption. A slightly deviation from the standards and the smart systems wont work properly. The technology is great, the zero emissions sounds nice, but the price and maintenance cost might not be appealing for everyone...

[@timothykeith1367]

A hybrid system could also use the wood gas to fuel a gasoline powered electricity generator. There are decent open source downdraft wood gasifiers, some published by the U.S. government, but no updraft gasifiers like this. The video is probably omitting critical details - how does it mechanically break-up the charcoal? The ongoing production of charcoal will plug up the system and require manual Intervention. The automated ash plate might be sufficient to enable the weight of the unburned material to drop the column above tge ember bed, but it's likely to form a hard bridge and choke the process. Well designed amateur built downdraft wood gasifers don't clog up as easily, but they produce greater ash and tar and are usually batch loaded.

[@wonniewarrior]

Similiar in concept to the wood gas and coal gas adaptors used to power some vehicles during WW2 as a fuel saving measure. But with a modern design update.

[@MisesTrucker]

Good job 👍👏

[@Rick-ck8ei]

Can this system be used for burning particle board, mdf, and material chips with formica laminate? Can it handle sawdust inclusion? What is the thermal output? Is it for heating water or forced air?

[@samsngdevice5103]

Why are you asking us? Wdk!!

[@dappy848]

wont work with sawdust as it requires gasses to pass from the base upwards.

[@jothain]

Rick it didn't occur to go to manufacturer website and sen query directly to them. But since you asked us, I think this also burns abs plastics very well without problems. I've also heard that it's possible to get rid of waste oil by soaking wood with that and burning everything. Maybe even the heater itself. See where this is going?😏😂 You just might get wrong information looking it from here 🙏

[@CantPickTheNameIwant]

I believe 1 unit costs over 10k Euro, hence I have a few questions regarding its profitability. I think it would be better and smarter to buy the simple wood boiler, add heat accumulator (volume should depend on a space of your house, usually 3 cubic meters for 100 square meters), add 5-10 plane solar heaters (helio system). In total, you will spend less money and will be saving it in the future and you won't be sitting in front of your boiler every 3 hours

[@evanharrison4054]

Not to mention replacement parts. We live in an age where $500 laptops have $250 batteries. I bet if anything breaks on this thing, the individual replacement parts would run you at least €1000, if not more. Best case scenario is that you'd end up spending a few thousand on this thing, just to keep it running. Hey, at least it appeals to the sensibilities of university educated liberals who've never worked in their lives.

[@42lookc]

@@evanharrison4054 Wholeheartedly agreed, particularly including the last telling sentence of the demographic this is aimed at.

[@octoma]

I now want a cabin in the woods!

[@NikovK]

One day I hope this incredible technological prowess can be used to draw energy directly from the decay of common metal isotopes.

[@SeraStaplz]

"emissions so low, they can hardly be measured." So the can be measured? "several times lower than the strictest statutory limits." So how many times lower? What are the statutory limits you're referring to? I'm sure it's a great product, but I'm not into whoever produced this video. Makes it hard to trust.

[@jasonpatterson8091]

And emissions of what? Surely it's producing large volumes of carbon dioxide and water at a minimum - it has to if there's any combustion going on at all.

[@Enforcer_WJDE]

​@@jasonpatterson8091 The combustion is CO2 neutral so far but then you put on top the CO2 emitted to get the wood out of the forest, turning them into woodchips and transporting them to your home. All in all quite good. But here is the thing. What wood are they using? In the USA they tried to get this woodchip idea rolling but in fact they were destroying woodland for woodchips to fuel the burners which is contra productive to the cause. It's basically another industry trying to sell "green energy" to you.

[@BadOompaloompa79]

@@Enforcer_WJDE I think this is more an off grid application of tech. Its not an industrial boiler its as small wood chip boiler you can use to heat a cabin and give it hot water. When you live in the woods far from the grid hot water is nice and you have plenty of woodchips

[@Enforcer_WJDE]

@@BadOompaloompa79 Nah they have been marketing it for housing in general over here instead of a traditional gas or oil system as a green solution. Either as a wood pellet or wood pellet and wood variant. It even says the wood comes from scraps wood or from the forest so they are in fact felling trees for it. Apart from getting the wood out of the woods into your oven it's pretty much close to carbon neutral compared to other methods but not a solution for the masses because you can't grow trees that fast even if you wanted too.

[@mronck]

@@BadOompaloompa79 this thing can heat several appartments, depending on insulation :)

[@Greggspies]

Clever technology would like to here a testamoanial

[@sireliot2149]

How do the emissions from gasifiers like this compare with a gasoline engine? It always seemed the exhaust from a wood stove could be burned, not much would remain to discharge into the atmosphere? Also curious about catalytic converters for this application since they have been installed on wood stoves.

[@squ1r7y]

i have natural gas boiler in my house. this is an interesting alternative. wonder if this method of heating is cheaper than natural gas, considering i pay about $10 for the gas and about $180 for tax and transmission fees.

[@Remedynr]

Thunderfoot I call upon You, Please have a look at this!

[@calvinthedestroyer]

My first thought :) Although I don't see much to bust except the "no emissions" statement.

[@Remedynr]

@@calvinthedestroyer the ember bed staying up to 4 days without any need for fuel or ignition, 90% cut in ignition energy etc etc. just sounds like a magic bean :D

[@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961]

@@Remedynr And I think it's a waste of energy to have a screw just to move the ashes 20 centimeters to the side, it could just be a little taller and put the box under the boiler.

[@h00db01i]

@@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961 height of the unit has to be minimised

[@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961]

@@h00db01i Why the case? They could just put a drawer kind of thing instead of all that mechanism occupying the space under it and call it a day.

[@robpederson281]

How long has this been in service. Lots of moving parts and sensors. Maintenance issues!!

[@AKAtheA]

a piston internal combustion engine has literally over a magnitude more moving parts and can last quite long with just the prescribed maintenance...what's important is the quality of individual modules and a mature design.

[@robpederson281]

@@AKAtheA not even apple to apple comparison. U start mixing soot and dust with eye and sensors u have maintenance issues. Just curious

[@brys555]

@@AKAtheA The piston internal combustion engines are developed since over a 100 years and still fails. Moreover, they tend to be more reliable the simpler their design is.

[@brys555]

@Stoned Ewok I agree with you except the last part. Most of the dealerships' income comes from selling new cars rather than repairs/service the ones already sold. The ratio is about 8:1 to 10:1. At least that's for premium brand dealership located in central Europe I work for.

[@brys555]

@Stoned Ewok My data comes directly from CEO. He hate our service department just because of that. We generate most of his problems such as unsatisfied customers, accidents at workplace, our crew is a half of all employees yet we make only 10% of total income. Necessary evil.

[@brianrath9679]

I wonder if people could also use this concept for power generation off grid.

[@superdrummergaming]

I'm not in the market for one of these at all, but that was neat.