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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

> http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2557.html?theme=light

Producer gas has been with us for a long time.  Many large European cities 
were lighted at night in the early 19th century by producer gas made from 
coal.  The first IC engines in the early 19th century were powered by coal 
gas.  Residues from coal gas helped start the huge German chemical industry.

In the late 70s Mother Earth News built a producer gas powered pickup.  I 
have pictures of an producer gas powered International Harvester F12 built 
in Germany at the end of WWII.  Sometime in the thirties Henry Ford had 
several test cars set up for producer gas.

The process uses energy to drive off the hydrogen which is the fuel.  As for 
energy usage it is not very efficient.  There is at least one Yahoo group on 
wood gas.

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html