Like Allan, my preference would be a steam engine.
The engine technology for steam engines in cars is
quite advanced (see below), but I haven't found
much on the production of steam, using wood,
which would be practical in a car or pickup.
There's no doubt that either wood gas or steam
would have limited usefulness; usually in wooded
outlying areas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car
Gerry
From: "Dan Penoff" <lwb...@yahoo.com>
One of my former business partners was convinced the world economy is
going to collapse shortly. As a part of that paranoia, he heavily
researched the wood gas thing and went far enough as to build a complete
wood gas generator on a small single axle trailer he could tow behind his
pickup truck.
I never saw it working, as the last time he had run it the output
temperatures were high enough to melt the solder out of the radiator he
was using to cool the output gasses.
According to him it worked. But - he was a total nutjob, too.
He spent some serious coin getting a reprint if a book that some guy in
one of the Nordic countries has written some years back that was out of
print. This guy had a wood gas generator he towed behind his car to act as
a fuel source. I looked through it at length, but found it hard to justify
as a viable fuel source when something like biodiesel was far easier to
produce a d didn't require all the hardware.
Dan
On Apr 19, 2012, at 6:43 AM, "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com>
wrote:
Found nothing related under nunnikoven/nunnikhoven on Google. This "is"
old technology, but this farmer seems to have made improvements.
I would think that a DIYer with a wood supply might be willing to put up
with the extra time and trouble of wood gas in order to save several
thousand
dollars per year on fuel.
Gerry
Dieselhead wrote:
Look up nunnikoven (or something like that) in the 74-79 time period.
He did all this (except Auburn and maybe bonneville) almost 40 years
ago. Of course, many did it during WWII. Ninnikoven sold kits.
merkuns are too impatient for the system to generate gas. They have
been trained to expect instant gratification. Glow for 30 seconds? No
TIME!!! ok, we can glow in 10 seconds. NOPE! I want to turn the key
and go.
With wood gas, you glow for what, 1/2 hour?
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