simply cool. But wood gas is not the most efficient way to turn wood into usable fuel. i wound if possable to make a make michaine to make biooil. Then your car all you need to do is boil the biooil and burn the biooil vapor.
yeah ok, they ran it on wood. this is just a demonstration of principle. but that same setup could easily run on any relatively dry biomass. (corn stalks, wheat chaff, garbage, grass clippings, leftover breakfast.)
so no, the forests won’t be gone in short order, but if we play our cards right the landfills could!
Some of these comments demonstrate the instinctive “no” we all are trained to think and say. Our Swedish brothers are trying to show us that the technology can work not that we have to cut down all of our trees to do it. Where do you think wood scraps from Home Depot are going right now? How about tires or coffee grinds or yard clippings you so conveniently throw away into your trash bins and get to forget until next week? Please educate yourself before knocking people and their inventions.
we are all carbon based and no matter wat you do every tree will die at somepoint and release “pollutants” into the atmosphere…..so why not use it for energy?!
The major problem. Wood is not a viable fuel, not because it won’t work but because we just don’t have enough of it in the world to use. We see this in the third world is they start chopping down all the trees to use them for fuel. This is why rocket stoves are pushed to 3rd world to lower burn rates of wood. Wood gas can work but it can’t replace oil, coal and natural gas. Why? because the BTU content is to low and the BTU burn rate to high. Wood even chicken crap can run a car.
Agree Firecatgreg. Transportation with wood gas must come with great responsibility in several areas. Most important task in the world is cuting down on energy consumption.
Here’s some interesting facts: Sweden Produces more wood than it takes down, and burning wood completely like his releases no more co2 than it would if it decomposes in the forrest, ergo co2 neutral, unlike fossil fules.
Unfortunately, noone AFAIK has made more than a few liters of demonstration oil. The algae reactors are a long way from being commercially viable. It’s just too hard to get the ‘oil’ out of the algae just now.
simply cool. But wood gas is not the most efficient way to turn wood into usable fuel. i wound if possable to make a make michaine to make biooil. Then your car all you need to do is boil the biooil and burn the biooil vapor.
soon we won’t have any wood
Yes we still need to only utilize this sytem for essential motor vehicle services not mass motoring as the forest will be gone in short order.
yeah ok, they ran it on wood. this is just a demonstration of principle. but that same setup could easily run on any relatively dry biomass. (corn stalks, wheat chaff, garbage, grass clippings, leftover breakfast.)
so no, the forests won’t be gone in short order, but if we play our cards right the landfills could!
Some of these comments demonstrate the instinctive “no” we all are trained to think and say. Our Swedish brothers are trying to show us that the technology can work not that we have to cut down all of our trees to do it. Where do you think wood scraps from Home Depot are going right now? How about tires or coffee grinds or yard clippings you so conveniently throw away into your trash bins and get to forget until next week? Please educate yourself before knocking people and their inventions.
Yes, but the bio gas comes from a renewable source (in this case wood), and when a new tree grows up it will absorb all the “pollution” again.
we are all carbon based and no matter wat you do every tree will die at somepoint and release “pollutants” into the atmosphere…..so why not use it for energy?!
The major problem. Wood is not a viable fuel, not because it won’t work but because we just don’t have enough of it in the world to use. We see this in the third world is they start chopping down all the trees to use them for fuel. This is why rocket stoves are pushed to 3rd world to lower burn rates of wood. Wood gas can work but it can’t replace oil, coal and natural gas. Why? because the BTU content is to low and the BTU burn rate to high. Wood even chicken crap can run a car.
Agree Firecatgreg. Transportation with wood gas must come with great responsibility in several areas. Most important task in the world is cuting down on energy consumption.
It isn’t necessary to use wood, since wood gas generators can gasify almost any type of combustible material.
Like garbage.
would that thing work if we used other plant matter such as dried grass, sugar cane husk, wheat stalks, rice stalks, corn stalks, dried leaves, ect.
I like it…. time to build big algae skywells!
Here’s some interesting facts: Sweden Produces more wood than it takes down, and burning wood completely like his releases no more co2 than it would if it decomposes in the forrest, ergo co2 neutral, unlike fossil fules.
Unfortunately, noone AFAIK has made more than a few liters of demonstration oil. The algae reactors are a long way from being commercially viable. It’s just too hard to get the ‘oil’ out of the algae just now.