Website review: A Truck that Runs on Wood Fuel: For...
sheaman42 discovered this in Environment
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sheaman42 discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "When gas prices are high and youâ€re desperate enough to just not give a f#!k, rigging your vehicle to run on wood fuel might just be your answer. All you need are some materials youâ€ve probably got laying around in your garage, and a lot of patience, because youâ€re going to be throwing trees into this thing like thereâ€s no tomorrow. A listener to the Coast to Coast AM with George Noory radio program, Dave B., submitted this photo along with a few others and had this to say about it: I ran into this interesting character today at my local farmers market that drove up in an old pickup with a crazy looking contraption in the bed of the truck composed of ducting, PVC pipe, a 50 gallon drum, an old furnace, and of course, a lot of duct tape among other many other things. I had to ask him what in the world was on the back of his truck. It was a wood burning oven that catches the combustible fumes from the wood coals, condenses any moisture, then feeds the fumes into the engine to make it run. I wouldnâ€t have believed it if I didnâ€t see it. Apparently this is a concept that was engineered back in WWII when there were fuel supply shortages. I have never heard of it. Probably would not be good if we all did it, but at least I know there is someone in town with a truck that will run no matter what happens with gasoline. You gotta hand it to the guy for ingenuity. The setup looks like a traveling moonshine still. If this isnâ€t giving Big Oil the middle finger, I donâ€t know what is. Itâ€s not very practical, and the emissions factor makes it less than an eco-friendly choice, but itâ€s definitely funny. [Update!] Back in 1981, Mother Earth News published this piece on using firewood to fuel a truck. A guy named Chicken John also has one with a pretty interesting setup"
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