If you like to experiment, go to the following website. It’s title is “Construction of a simplified Wood Gas Generator for Fueling Internal Combustion Engines in a Petroleum Emergency”. The information is free and I printed it out some time ago. I haven’t tried it yet but they say you can run a generator off of this design. They even tell you how to change the generator to run off this system. Sounds crazy but it just might work. I’ve seen worse inventions.
Sorry, I forgot the website. http://www.webpal.org/SAFE/aaarecovery/8_transportation/woodgas/index.htm