How much wood would a . . .
http://green.autoblog.com/2011/04/21...-kamina-video/
A Finnish politician by the name of Juha Sipila has converted his U.S.-built 1987
Chevrolet El Camino to run on wood gas, and we have an El Camino to rival
Daryl Hannah's old biodiesel ride.
Sipila's El Camino, dubbed El Kamina (The Stove), features a wood gas setup – similar to the ones used in Europe during World War II – that consumes nearly half of the truck's bed. The El Kamina's 400-cubic-inch Chevy V8 engine can propel the 4,400-pound truck to 125 miles per hour and its bed can haul up to 175 pounds of wood, enough fuel for the truck to travel up to 800 miles.
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There are different, partial combustion chemistries and I would recommend a good survey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...nufactured_gas
Bob Wilson
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