Henlo anons, I work at a paper mill and rather than draw power from the grid, we have solid fuel steam boilers to make our own (and actually make so much excess that it gets sold to the power company instead of the other way around).

We feed our furnaces the remains of wood chips after we use caustic lime to break down the chips and remove the wood fibres to make our paper with.

My question today is, is it feasible to have a much smaller boiler that could be used to help power a home? Sun isn't necessarily abundant here and I don't want to rely on just solar for my homestead, but we have plenty of wood and charcoal. It'd be neat because it would also double as a heating unit and cooking surface too.