ALL Power Labs is an incubator for open source energy experiments and distributed manufacturing solutions. We work to generate physical tools and information resources for people exploring alterative energy through DIY innovation and online collaboration. We believe that a bottom up, participatory ecology in energy is just as possible as it has been in computing. And we expect the impact of such creative self-determination will be no less transforming than its been in digital realms.

The ALL Power Labs team is an unusual combination of junkyard fabricators and university trained scientists and engineers. Imagine a mash up of Bay Area art/tech DIY underground with Phd techies from Stanford and MIT. The result is a powerful combination of technical ability and physical know how for building real things in the real world. We are a group not enamored with designy concepts and government funded demonstration projects. Rather, we focus on that which can be effectively built and deployed, immediately and in volume, with broad impact and relevance.

The first product ALL Power Labs has brought to market in service of these goals is the Gasifier Experimenter's Kit (GEK). The GEK is a small scale DIY energy appliance that enables individuals to run typical internal combustion engines on "trash" in a GHG negative manner, through the gasification of waste biomass, and sequestering the byproducts as biochar. In the first year-and-a-half of production, we've already shipped 150 GEKs to locales on five continents.