Convert Wood into Charcoal & Enrgy

Continuing the discussion from Do I look like your Maid?:

So this is a cool old-skool project the really piques my interest.

I have access to quite a bit of pecan wood, most of which is too old and weathered to be much more than firewood. However, if I could turn it into charcoal, that’d be super nice!

I’ve heard of designs which gassify part of the wood and then burn that to heat the rest of the wood in an oxygen-poor environment to make charcoal. Anyone know the magic form and dimensions for something like that?

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We use TLUD (top lit updraft) for charcoal making. And actually want some residual tars/minerals for certain effects.

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I have plans.

Give me metal and a means by which to fuse it and I will build the world.

We could get tars. I don’t know what to do with them, but we could get some.

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Dialium??? XD

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