In the Philippines in the early 80's I volunteered to perform maintenance and repair on electric power generation equipment in small villages. Many of them used coconut husks in gas generators to run the electric power generator engines. They had huge piles of coconut husks left over from processing the coconut meat. Coconut charcoal was a byproduct of gasification and they processed that and sold it as well. The Village would feed us while we were in the village working on their generator's. BBQ cooked over coconut charcoal was delicious.
@@arielhuerta8371 They dry them in the sun and cut them up into small pieces. Once dry they burn very well. They load the pieces in a wood gasifier which produces a gas a gasoline engine will run perfectly fine with. Google Wood Gasifier and you'll get all the information on how they work and how to build one for your own use. People built and used wood gasifiers here in the USA during WWII due to gasoline rationing. They also make charcoal out of the husks for cooking too. The best BBQ you will ever have is cooked over coconut charcoal.
@@n4zou thank you so much for responding! I'm actually currently looking into wood gasifiers and happened upon your comment. The place where I'm planning on having the gasifier actually has access to coconut husks in large amounts so that's why I asked.
I had a friend who was a B-17 Navigator during WW2 .. His plane was shot down and he parachuted into, I think he said Denmark, but it could have been Sweden - it's been too many years and I've forgotten what he said .. He was technically a "prisoner of war" for the remainder of the War, but he didn't live in a POW Camp .. he was allowed to basically roam free and do whatever he wanted, except he wasn't allowed to leave the country [ I suppose that was a violation of the neutrality laws ] .. I believe he had to "check in" every day to the local authority and be counted, to make sure he wasn't trying to escape .. he basically just wandered around the village and helped out whoever in town needed help .. someone in Sweden or Denmark gave him a Wood Gasifier Car to drive for the 3 years he was there .. I'd love to see a real gasifier car in operation and learn how it works and how to "prime it" and operate it .. this video looks exactly how he described it to me 20 years ago ..
Mr Fusion only powers the flux capacitor and the time circuit, although in theory it should provide enough power to reach 88MPH but he won't have the required materials to build a electric motor that powerful in 1855. A woodgas generator is however steam age technology it probably could be built... although 88MPH will be tough as he would need to build a supercharger to increase the power output.
The time circuits are powered by me fusion, the conventional internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline it always has, and without gas, there's no way to get the Delorean up to the necessary 88 mph.
Well, they say that 20lbs of wood is equivalent to 1 gallon of gasoline, so with that knowledge, and seeing as how he probably loaded it with 60lbs of wood, he could probably get 60-70 miles, on my guess.
That’s too vague. Wood like any other fuel varies a lot in it’s BTU content. It would be interesting to see how that translated to wood gas. USDA published info on heating values for different species many years ago.
@@pvtimberfaller from what I've been reading wood gas is about 50-60% of gasoline. Apparently it is also around 104 octane and better in high compression engines.
A work colleage has a smaller version of this on his short wheelbase Landrover,drove it all over Africa then bought it to Western Australia.It may still survive but it was very easy to use and cheap to run.
During WW2 in Sydney, Australia my grandparents had a 7 seat Buick with a wood gas generator just like this with a large storage bag on the roof. My dad's job was to start the generator before driving the car.
During WW2 in Sydney, Australia my grandparents had a 7 seat Buick with a wood gas generator just like this with a large storage bag on the roof. My dad's job was to fire up the generator 30 minutes before driving the car.
Force wood gas to go downwards through water and bubble up and then go through a filter on the other side. That or use a radiator system to collect the tar in barrels and let the lighter gases flow up.
Hi. Just wondering if Woodgas tends to carbon/tar engines up after a time, or they are hot enough to burn it off? Maybe run an occasional tank of regular fuel with additive to clean it? What have you found?
@@JuhaK71 Also depends on fuel source iirc. These were widely used in WW2 during gas shortages in the UK and Germany and were notorious for being very finnicky to maintain, especially if you had to use rubbish as fuel as was often the case in germany. I know under the right circumstances tar free, even 'cleaner' gas than petrol can be made from wood gasifiers built and run right, but this technology has been seldom used under ideal circumstances. I think a lot of the gasifiers in Germany, the civilians ones at least, were repurposed out of things like garbage bins etc. FEMA has a document out detailing how to make a gasifier from a garbage bin too. My point being, tar has always been an issue as these are almost always ad hoc designs that aren't being run ideally.
Guaranteed survivor of a shit hits the fan human reset event. I live and breath this kinda stuff but live in a bed sit in a northern town with no possibilities of pursuing.
hello, I want to build a tank wood machine like they have. could you maybe take some pictures for me? And maybe a little hand sketch with a few measurements. that would help me a lot. many thanks. Greetings Kevin
The waste product should be charcoal; since little or no oxygen is getting into that reaction chamber, only allowing hydrogen and wood alcohol to get into the engine. If enough oxygen got into the reaction chamber, the wood would burn and turn to ash, and there would be too much carbon in the gas (which would be just wood smoke at that point) and the engine wouldn’t start.
@@randylahey3988 But for petrol rafination you also need a lot of electricity. In the end electric cars are the best, because gascars have methane emissions. Not sure if woodgas is also as bad.
You get abt 20-25% of carbon monoxide and 20-25% of hydrogen out of that kind of gasifier. The rest is carbon dioxide, water vapor and other non-flammable gases and vapors. Perthaps a small amount of methane. Anyway, you can run an engine with it, as you can see and they did during the WW2 and many years after.
"one shity sound". I read some of several languages. Sure is loud! but does work. Not going to get much power though. Engines are easily taxed using woodgas.
