aja8888
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For the history buffs
Back in early Germany, with no petrol available, people made good use of wood to power their vehicles. Here's a short article explaining how that was done. There are a few short videos embedded in this article that are well worth looking at.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2...ing-this-winter-is-wood-to-gas-for-cars-next/
Back in early Germany, with no petrol available, people made good use of wood to power their vehicles. Here's a short article explaining how that was done. There are a few short videos embedded in this article that are well worth looking at.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2...ing-this-winter-is-wood-to-gas-for-cars-next/
During World War II, as many as a half million passenger cars were run on what is called “wood gas”, also called syngas or producer gas. Germany did not have sufficient supplies of petroleum for its military uses, so it developed synthetic fuels. General Patton even had some of the 3rd Army’s vehicles run on synthetic fuel that they drained from captured or abandoned German tanks. If the Wehrmacht, the German army, didn’t have enough fuel, you can be sure that regular Germans had to find alternatives for their motor vehicles. As a strategic commodity, gasoline was severely rationed during the war, in the United States as well as Germany.
In the 1920s, French chemist Georges Imbert invented a coal gasifier, later licensing the process to German firms.