reuben

was just delving into history and found this topic. I built one last fall on my dodge truck and got it running. But afterwards decided I'd rather have something with less required time to process fuel, as it all has to be dry and cut up to no more than 4" chunks. + I like a nice powerful engine, and woodgas cuts the power output to 2/3 normal at best in a gas engine. Might do a little better in a diesel with pressurized input.

It's a downdraft gasifier which makes it easy to reload while running.

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woodgas is equivalent to 105 octane so will run in a diesel engine, but it will not self ignite under compression so it requires either a small amount of diesel or spark ignition.


I've done a lot of alternative fuel research and I'm gonna think about it till I figger out a free fuel for a diesel. sonic split dihydrogen oxide may be usable but not directly without a modified engine, If I could figger out how to convert a diesel to utalize a vapor fuel with a super fast flame speed it might work. a natural gas engine with no advance on ignition may work.

gotta be super careful with this stuff though, when ya get something working, enjoy it secretly and don't tell a soul or you'll get hit with deadly opposition from the money hungry oil fools. I mean it! I know lots of inventors that have lost their lives over it in the last 80 years, there's just too much money in oil for the profiteers to let go of it without a real fight. But it's still an "underground" fight with the oil fools still aparently winning, (because they have money and can hire anyone killed they want gone) as they've managed to keep most of the general public ignorant of the obsolete nature of the oil industry.