It needs gas to run I'm almost positive... I saw the news bit on this a while back.. BUt this guys deal won't work becuse all teh fums going into the air cleaner housing are going right back out because the cap os on upsidedown... THat carb is not pulling ANY air from the snorkle.... LMAO
Well, just a WAG, Gary, but I'm thinking he probably doesn't drive around burning wood - just waiting to flip it when armageddon comes and he has to live like Mad Max. Gotta think like a survivalist my friend
well, at $100 per chord average if you were to buy wood, I wonder how far you would go? Operational parameters of that? He seems to be doing 50 mph at best on near 30 miles per refill? so about every half hour you would need to stop by his system.
Woodgas, also known as holzgas, air gas or blue gas, is the product of thermal gasification of biomass or other carbon containing materials such as coal in a gasifier or wood gas generator. It is the result of a high temperature reaction (>700 °C), where carbon reacts with steam or a limited amount of air or oxygen producing carbon monoxide (CO), molecular hydrogen (H2), and carbon dioxide (CO2).
In several gasifiers the actual gasification process is preceded by pyrolysis, where the biomass or coal turns into char releasing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) rich tar and methane (CH4). Other gasifiers are fed with previously pyrolysed char. Wood gas is flammable because of the carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane content.
