[Gasification] Wood Gasification on "Car Talk" Program on NPR

[Otto Formo]

Dear all,
Greetings in the New Year.
During the second World War a lot of cars and buses in Norway was running on gasifier units, like you are mentioning.
They were considered to be running on woodchips, also called "Knott" in our local language, related to the biomass they were using to make the woodgas.
The gas was produced by the gasifier out of woodchips, locally made out of prefered tree spieces.

I dont find that so strange, just keep me thinking about some of the the disquession on this list, mainly focusing on the stoves and energy units.
We should also focus on the fuel or biomass, processed or unprocessed, as well, namely woodchips, pellets, briquettes etc.
No proper fuel or biomass, no proper gasification, I belive.

On the other hand, cars are normaly named, Automobile", not petrol-cars or diesel-cars, after the fuel they are using, anyway.

Otto

> From: Katherine Ransel [kransel at gmail.com]
> Sent: 2012-01-08 23:49:45 MET
> To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification' [gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org]
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Wood Gasification on "Car Talk" Program on NPR
> 
> I am so glad others heard this.  I was just yelling wood gas, wood gas the
> entire time they were talking.
> 
> Katherine P. Ransel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
> [mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Tom
> Miles
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 2:12 PM
> To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification';
> Gasification at bioenergylists.org
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Wood Gasification on "Car Talk" Program on NPR
> 
> Dan,
> 
> Thanks for pointing out that episode. 
> 
> If they didn't know very much about wood gas I wouldn't be surprised if
> Click and Clack just decided to act dumb. They would elicit a lot of
> commentary that way.
> 
> As you point out the web chat did generate a mixed lot of interpretations.
> At least one poster went beyond Google for information. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom Miles
> www.gasifiers.bioenergylists.org
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
> [mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Dan Nave
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 12:13 PM
> To: Gasification at bioenergylists.org
> Subject: [Gasification] Wood Gasification on "Car Talk" Program on NPR
> 
> I just heard a Car Talk episode where a German fellow talked about wood chip
> operated vehicles 
> during WWII.   Click and Clack (or Tom and Ray) had never heard of it and
> couldn't conceive of how 
> it would work.
> 
> There are a lot of comments on the Car Talk web site but most of it is quite
> wrong and giving woodgas a bad name.
> 
> I wondered if one of you more knowledgeable fellows would be interested in
> chiming in on the website, and preferably call into the show and tell them
> what is going on in woodgas.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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