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2009 BACKYARD GENIUS AWARDS
STRONGEST HOME BREW
MAN BEHIND THE MACHINE
DIY Fuel Mill
Ben Peterson wants to sell the world on turning its garbage into fuel. e 31-year-old former welder recently tore down a farmhouse on his 20-acre farm in Washington ate. “We were le with piles of wood,” he says. “And I realized that with a gasifier, I could turn that wood into fuel.” He found Federal Emergency Management Agency plans for a ratified downdra gasifier, which uses a controlled combuion process to turn biomass into fuel for fir responders. But the FEMA device was enormous, so Peterson spent two months redesigning filters and reamlining the airflow to get it down to a more family-friendly size. “I was making these things out of garbage cans and spare pipe, and I got addied to the design process,” he says. e result is a DIY home gasifier that can power a portable generator. Now Peterson hopes to sell his design to the masses—and his work won’t be done until we’re all filling up our gas tanks with gasified garbage.
Name: Ben Peterson Age: 31 Location: Toledo, Wash. Expansion plan: Peterson has also created an indurial-size gasifier with help from the University of Florida. PHOTOGR APH BY SIAN KENNEDY
www.storemags.com & www.fantamag.com
STRONGEST HOME BREW
MAN BEHIND THE MACHINE
DIY Fuel Mill
Ben Peterson wants to sell the world on turning its garbage into fuel. e 31-year-old former welder recently tore down a farmhouse on his 20-acre farm in Washington ate. “We were le with piles of wood,” he says. “And I realized that with a gasifier, I could turn that wood into fuel.” He found Federal Emergency Management Agency plans for a ratified downdra gasifier, which uses a controlled combuion process to turn biomass into fuel for fir responders. But the FEMA device was enormous, so Peterson spent two months redesigning filters and reamlining the airflow to get it down to a more family-friendly size. “I was making these things out of garbage cans and spare pipe, and I got addied to the design process,” he says. e result is a DIY home gasifier that can power a portable generator. Now Peterson hopes to sell his design to the masses—and his work won’t be done until we’re all filling up our gas tanks with gasified garbage.
Name: Ben Peterson Age: 31 Location: Toledo, Wash. Expansion plan: Peterson has also created an indurial-size gasifier with help from the University of Florida. PHOTOGR APH BY SIAN KENNEDY
www.storemags.com & www.fantamag.com
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