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[–] pushthis [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

For a propane generator, syngas or hydrogen can be supplemented.

Syngas from a gasifier or specialy designed woodstove. This option would best be implemented while heating an auxillary building, like a work shed or animal enclosure in the dead of winter. Syn gas could be piped in. I wpuldnt leave out a catylitic converter like modern pelletstoves use but pf course a bypass wpuld be needed.

For hydrogen one ought use magnesium hydride in pellet form in a 65-90maxpsi fiberglass(on site constructed tank) that can stay under the home but insulated from ground coldness.: the magnesium hydride acts much lile a sponge and 'soaks' up hydrogen while dropping in temp. This tank needs a PEX tubing circuit of hot water to increase the PSI asso it can be tapped/raise the PSI. This meyhod of hydrogen storage offers better safety and still great capacity.

Also petrol fuels with a carburetor change can run in propane engines,, or at least the oppisite case will

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[–] beefartist 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Most of that was way over my head other than woodstove and the propane engines...I know of schol buses and cop cars powered by propane but you make it sound simpler than I feel like it is, and I know propane can have issues in extreme cold?

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[–] pushthis [S] ago 

Mag hydride tanks will be the future for hudrogen power but the availability is too limited for what the market would end up demanding

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[–] pushthis [S] ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, areas on service lines woth sudden drops in pressure, like at or directly after of a regulator can freeze [closed]. But with a heating service that doesnt happen.

When an already cold propane is bottom-valve(liquid)'d decanted into a smaller tank it will be even colder and more dense and then whem it warms back to room temp it can cause the tank to bulge. <-not cool