With a shop vac, some metal, a few pipes, a generator and wood chips, you can produce electricity. If you know how to combine those things properly. The process itself is older technology, said chris jeffries. Its very simple. Chris jeffries created this gasifier. He explained the process as using the shop vac to create negative pressure, while wood waste is heated in a separate large cyclinder where gasses from unburned wood are then siphoned into a filter before feeding a generator. Its a controlled combustion, a controlled pyrolysis, said chris jeffries. The city of south sioux city, nebraska, plans to plug in this technology. Were trying to be selfsufficient and go as green as possible, said rod koch. Mayor rod koch says using this gasifier will save the city 40,000 a year in electric costs. It saves us from having to dispose of trees that are eventually going to die anyways because of this emerald borer ash, said rod koch. The unit will be much larger than this and will be placed
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LOCAL TALK 22 April 2021
KHOI will be observing Earth day, 22 April with some programing specials and then on Saturday the 24th, we are partnering with the City of Ames and Iowa State University with some special programming.
Amy Reis, Education Outreach Coordinator for the Raptor Resource Project. Discuss the history of the Decorah eagle cameras and its late director,
Bob Anderson. Peregrine Falcons had been wiped out from DDT used in the 1950s has an insecticide. Bob came to Iowa to bring falcons back, partnered with the Ho-Chunk nation of Black River Falls, Wisconsin and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, KHOI covers the Decorah Eagle cam story and the Peregrine Falcons return.