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Old 01-08-2013, 07:50 PM
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A smouldering wood stove can create gas that is explosive in nature. It can occassionaly errupt in a noisey blast driving the lid upwards off its seat with quite a bang.

I again am not sure but suspect it was the methane gas that was utilized but welcome any correction.
Range Fuels (and soon to be LanzaTech) calls it syngas. Seems that if you put chips thru the chemical process of "burning" in an environment where there is a lack of oxygen the gas that it gives off is high in btu content.
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