Wood Gas

Wood gas is a mixture of flammable gases that come from the pyrolysis of wood. You create and store wood gas with the help of a "Gasifier"

The construction of a wood gas generator is quite a project but it could offer a lot of essentially "free" energy.

It's not a technology that can fix the world but it is a technology that can offer independence and power to a collective such as FC as it can be used to power engines in either cars or generators, or can be used for cooking, meaning that money would no longer have to be spent on Propane.

Engines
Wood gas can be used in small and large engines though it is not as energetic as petrol meaning that should you power a car with wood gas you wouldn't have the power of a normal vehicle. However, it still has its uses and has been used in times of war to power both cars and buses. North Korea has been documented to be using wood gas trucks as a workaround the UN sanctions of oil and coal.

The City of Berkeley tried to shut down a Burning Man type collective as they were unhappy with their shipping container construction. They were cut off from electricity. For 7 years following they produced all of their own energy at least using partial gasification.- being energy independent within the city of Berkeley.

Cooking
Wood gas could be diverted from the gasifier for use in cooking.

Compression
It would seem that the compression of wood gas is not achievable or safe for us to attempt ourselves. Wood gas apparently requires a great deal of pressure to compress and so old systems have tended to use balloons. Something like a n expanding biogas generator might be an altrnative to storage.