wood gas

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 ...

No one can argue successfully that the world's vehicles should run on wood, but that doesn't mean that no one should be tooling around on timber, or that the technology isn't fascinating. Here are some interesting tidbits from an article in Low-Tech Magazine about wood-powered cars: Year ...