Wowow, amazing

@n4zou hey this is a long shot but would you happen to have more information on how they processed the cocktail husks for the generators?

@@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.

Why willow?

It must have been Sweden. Denmark was occupied by the German army Sweden was neutral.

you mean banana peels

unknownkw He made it run on garbage instead. Even better

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.

You mean instead of plutonium

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.

My father told me this thing existed during WW2 in Montevideo, but never knew for sure how it worked! This video is fine art

Haha! I like it, but it's also ironic! " I burn wood to split wood to burn wood!"

​@@greatwhitenorthlife2327unlimited power!

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.

Amazing

This might me the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

@@mytruckownsit That's cause your an idiot with no imagination.

@@mytruckownsit Why's that? It makes sense in the right areas of Oz.

Show de bola acho que hoje em dia seria interessante manter essas relíquias para estudos da mecânica também.

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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.

Snoggatog I wonder if there is a filter of some sort between the gassifier and intake. Cleans the smoke before the rest is burnt off?

A well tuned gasifier produces VERY little tar. You wood be surprised at how cleanly they can run :) .

smoke is filtered thru sawdust

Smoke filtered through sawdust, and tar liquid runoff collected in a "tar jar".

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.

No, carbon and tar hsve been a big issue

A properly constructed, dimensioned, used and maintained gasifier with proper fuel would produce tar free gas, but...

@@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.

PUT IT IN H!

Not to be that guy, but a hectare is a unit of area, not distance

@@charlesmartin1972 Yeah. It's a simpsons reference.

The simple waste product is you

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.

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Km/h it’s from 🇸🇪 sweden

@@superbird426 but the car is American

v p yes but it’s probably sold new here, and manufactured here at Ana Sweden. We got meny cars in boxes 📦

Yeaaaaa no. World would be deforested so fast.

Better to use horses and amish buggy

Start ups are quite slow and the "kettle" requires more frequent filling with wood, than a standard vehicle would need gasoline. Many types of wood gassifiers were used heavily during and after ww2 in Europe. Germany alone utilised half a million wood gassifier powered vehicles during the war, ranging from small tractors, to cars, boats and even armoured vehicles like halftracks and tanks. Countries that didn't even partake in fighting like Sweden, also had to endure with fuel shortages like every other country so they had 73 000 gassifier cars on their roads in 1942. Wood gassifiers started to dissapear from everyday use, depending on region, in 50s and in some places around 60s. The ease of just refueling gas to a vehicle is much easier, compared to lighting a fire everytime and carrying around fire wood in your vehicle takin space. Most likely last vehicles to commonly use gasifiers were tractors, which I've seen one from year 1973 fitted with a gassifier. Gassifiers werent so common in the states as they had, well not abundance of fuel but way more of it than europe did.

gasoline is simply more energy dense and convenient. part of why electric cars have not caught on until very recently. and battery tech is still far behind the energy density of fossil fuels. but there is hope, as Papa Elon is here to save us all!

The gas from the gasifier has about 40-50% of flammable gases(carbon monoxide and hydrogen), the output of the engine is about half of the case of gasoline use. The use of wood fueled car is quite tricky, for example the changes of the power demand has to be planned(before the uphill you have to shift the lower gear and increase the engine rpm etc.). As you see, the starting is slow, the wood fuel has to be well prepared(suitable sized and very dry). And at last, the gas from the gasifier is DEADLY toxic! It contains about 20-25% of carbon monoxide. The risk for the poisoning is remarkable(starting and refuelling the gasifier, driving the vehicle to the garage) The exhaust of the engine is very clean anyway.

You watched the video and can't see the disadvantage!!!! Cmon dude, spend ages cutting wood, operating boiler thing or just fill up and go?

@@sexyfacenation Sorry, I was moreso referring to the fuel type rather than the prep, etc. Oh well, it was just a high school project that I needed an answer for...

Run it off a wood gas Generator

Instead of use a diesel power to charge your electric, you use charcoal or nuclear!

Could've used a steam-powered saw... would've been more period correct.

@@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.

@@randylahey3988 or thorium

It's a right hand drive, I believe its MPH. It seems legit that it is because 30mph looks like the speed it was traveling at 30.

Sweden = km/h .

Yeah 1937 non-racing car doing 75MPH