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  • 24-05-2008 8:33pm
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    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭


    I came across this through another forum..
    He's used wood to power both a car and then a tractor..

    Hopefully someone like this will kill off the need for oil...


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    http://www.vedbil.se/dagbok/mera/19e.shtml


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Nothing new really:

    Holzvergaser.jpg&usg=AFQjCNFOgKkISQqZxWfTX8io73F76HHMEg

    Post-war Europe was full of these yokes


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    towel401
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas


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    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    OK so its not new... but I like that he's trying something different, thats where innovation comes from... and boy do we need something new.


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    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    true. There used to be a time long ago when people would drive around the place for the craic.

    you can still do it. but its rather expensive


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Woodgas actually makes a lot of (economical and environemental) sense in home heating applications where the filtration and purification of the gas can be done properly.

    In cars the wood gas generator is just too big and unwieldy to be practical.


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    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    peasant wrote: »

    In cars the wood gas generator is just too big and unwieldy to be practical.


    Yea... Mad looking

    Bad enough meeting poorly lit tractors at night without meeting this thing on a narrow road :eek:

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    old boy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭old boy


    in me younger days i used to drive a 6 volt vw on tvo


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    ejmaztec
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    Wood they be tree litre engines?





    ....sorry:(


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    towel401
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭towel401


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Wood they be tree litre engines?





    ....sorry:(

    that made me lol


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    Cmar-Ireland
    Registered Users Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭Cmar-Ireland


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Wood they be tree litre engines?





    ....sorry:(


    I wooden know...


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    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    bbam wrote: »
    I came across this through another forum..
    He's used wood to power both a car and then a tractor..

    Hopefully someone like this will kill off the need for oil...


    logo2e.jpg

    http://www.vedbil.se/dagbok/mera/19e.shtml

    I think I know that lad on the right he looks like his old man, a chip of the old block......


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    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    can't see it meeting NCAP, tbh..........so maybe time for a new set of 'alternative' tests, for edge-of-the-planet technology.

    I propose to call it...........FLATCAP ratings..........:D

    Or, MADCAP ratings............:rolleyes:

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    S.I.R
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    you'd have to ber barking mad to think up something like that.
    +


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    Wook
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    what to do when the wood is damp in the morning?


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