Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)

I had no idea these were actually made in significant numbers.

>even a modern woodmobile requires up to 10 minutes to get up to working temperature

That was my first question, and I can't imagine it would be great to have a parking garage of these things warming up / outputting gasses for 10 min each.

> If, one day, the availability of (cheap) oil comes to an end, the omnipresence of the automobile will be history.

I think the years since this was written has shown this to be false. BEVs are steadily replacing ICE vehicles and we have more cars than ever.

I remember John Cohn, an IBM Computer Engineer, was on some TV show called The Colony and built one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkH6mFlfH3o and I seem to remember it getting much further than this clip.

I wonder if a wood powered tractor for farming would be more practical than a wood powered car for transportation

I didn't know about this, and initially suspected the article was an LLM-generated prank (photos and all). Now I entered the rabbit hole of water gas, wood gasification, Gustav Bischof, Lowe's gas... HN is such a great place of the Internet!

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