DeadlySquirrel wrote:Is this that wood-gas thing?

KingCracker wrote:Im curious what those type of people will do with $7k worth of stockpile food when it goes bad. People do realize that just because its in a can, doesnt mean it lasts forever.

KingCracker wrote:Well you might want to look into making the suspension better on it, IE something a real tank uses. Unless you like bottoming out on anything bigger then a stick

KingCracker wrote:Im curious what those type of people will do with $7k worth of stockpile food when it goes bad. People do realize that just because its in a can, doesnt mean it lasts forever.

Kilkrazy wrote:That's self-sufficiency on a grand scale. You need a lot of space, though.

KingCracker wrote:Yea Ive known about that trick for awhile, people used to make cars that worked on wood like 100 years ago. Its a very fidgety thing to get tuned in, but once you get a combustion engine to fire and run on it, that works rather well. Its a bit underpowered though, but hey, woods free


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AT FIRST I believe that 'wood powered car' means steam powered ones. but 'ey! what kinda machine that he can convert wood into petrol? or does he make LPG/CNG out of a wood (the vehicle still uses combustion engine

If I remember right the wood releases hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel source. But you cant burn the wood like you do in a normal fire, its more like baking wood with out direct flame.

Kilkrazy wrote:Presumably it is made by a similar process to making charcoal.

The wood is heated in the absence of oxygen, so it cannot burn.




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By the way, it may be interesting to know that here in the UK we have a man called Jeremy Clarkson, who has car powered wood.

Lone Cat wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasifier#Transport_fuel

^ it is said that this technology exists in the days of steampunk technology and this technology had also been used in the second world war (Oil rations, so the footage 'my car runs on wood' is not just a joke but it's real ?) too bad when the new crude oil deposits had been found, and the advent of 'cracking' technology (advanced petrochemistry tech that made gasoline and diesel oil out of the (refined) bunker fuel oils) however. had render this technology unneccessary. (and forgotten. maybe even now very few awares that wood and solid biomass can actually power combustion engines and not just a fuel for steamers). ok for now the 'vehicle gasifiers' are all homemade things (it looks ORKISH to us).

Does the wood-powered car needs a very long 'warm ups'? the gasification reaction is needed to be done before the gasifier-mountd vehicle becomes fully functional. and i bet it has a noticible time intervals. while the modern truck diesels and gasoline engines. the vehicle becomes active almost instantly after the engine is started.