Car that runs on wood
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I bet we could find alot of fuel in our garbage dumps.
Wood is not viable but Algae is. It doubles its biomass in under 24 hours and due to the fact it is made up of single celled organisms its available surface area to take up atmospheric carbon is ideal. Nothing can exceed its ability to capture the suns energy to produce the hydrocarbon fuels we need to run our society. Best of all is that it is carbon neutral, able to absorb atmosmspheric carbon in real time at rates that could one day equal its release into the environment.
would that thing work if we used other plant matter such as dried grass, sugar cane husk, wheat stalks, rice stalks, corn stalks, dried leaves, ect.
It isn’t necessary to use wood, since wood gas generators can gasify almost any type of combustible material.
Like garbage.
Good point TommyKickslt. I do beleve that the most important task is cuting down on energy consumption. Then it’s possible to use alternative fuels. We have several generations coming ahead and they have the right to have a stable climate and a living earth.
Agree Firecatgreg. Transportation with wood gas must come with great responsibility in several areas. Most important task in the world is cuting down on energy consumption.
The major problem. Wood is not a viable fuel, not because it won’t work but because we just don’t have enough of it in the world to use. We see this in the third world is they start chopping down all the trees to use them for fuel. This is why rocket stoves are pushed to 3rd world to lower burn rates of wood. Wood gas can work but it can’t replace oil, coal and natural gas. Why? because the BTU content is to low and the BTU burn rate to high. Wood even chicken crap can run a car.
we are all carbon based and no matter wat you do every tree will die at somepoint and release “pollutants” into the atmosphere…..so why not use it for energy?!
Yes, but the bio gas comes from a renewable source (in this case wood), and when a new tree grows up it will absorb all the “pollution” again.
I would love to pull up to a rest stop, pop the lid and stuff in the tire that I just blew out. Imagine the looks! A+ video
Some of these comments demonstrate the instinctive “no” we all are trained to think and say. Our Swedish brothers are trying to show us that the technology can work not that we have to cut down all of our trees to do it. Where do you think wood scraps from Home Depot are going right now? How about tires or coffee grinds or yard clippings you so conveniently throw away into your trash bins and get to forget until next week? Please educate yourself before knocking people and their inventions.
yeah ok, they ran it on wood. this is just a demonstration of principle. but that same setup could easily run on any relatively dry biomass. (corn stalks, wheat chaff, garbage, grass clippings, leftover breakfast.)
so no, the forests won’t be gone in short order, but if we play our cards right the landfills could!
Yes we still need to only utilize this sytem for essential motor vehicle services not mass motoring as the forest will be gone in short order.
please help me with my gasifier y tried several time to fire the gas but i cant… help me please…
you are cool, guys, but this is not green energy. we have to avoid pollution. I recomend you read about biogas.
simply cool. But wood gas is not the most efficient way to turn wood into usable fuel. i wound if possable to make a make michaine to make biooil. Then your car all you need to do is boil the biooil and burn the biooil vapor.
you have to dry the wood first in a kiln or naturally, a fresh tree, dry or not is going to be far too wet to burn with any success. so i can safely say that you sir are the idiot…
have you tried to use cardboard to make woodgas?
It seems to produce a lot of combustible gas and it starts quickly. for short trips.should be interesting.
10 litres of wood 10km!pretty good!whats the vehicle weight?
men va fan… alla jävla jenkar har alltid nåt i mot oss. vilka va d som uppteckte usa igentligen ? va d inte eroper?
whats the consumption?how far does a 100 pounds of wood take you at 50mph?great stuff.thanks.
