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Wood gas vehicles were, well not uncommon: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.htm
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
Wood gas vehicles were, well not uncommon:
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/01/wood-gas-cars.html
Due to the need for oil (major cause of second world war anyway) Nazi Germany produce 1/2 million cars run on wood gas.
(Had to google this but just remembered the image from "The Knowledge" well worth a read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-Rebuild-World-After-Apocalypse https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-Rebuild-World-After-Apoca...)
- cartoonworld 5y agoWood gas was really common and used to power all kinds of lighting before electrification. FEMA even created and distributed plans[0] for a Gasifier in the late 80's. You can find the PDF all over the internet, I think its a pretty cool looking project. Youtube is full of weird wood gas car projects such as this pickup truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AFw3Agg7SM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AFw3Agg7SM I don't see how these could be street legal in general, but pretty fun. [0] https://survivalring.org/pdf/fema_wood_gas_generator.pdf https://survivalring.org/pdf/fema_wood_gas_generator.pdf
- bserge 5y agoSaw a few pictures from North Korea using something like that. It's actually more interesting than I thought!