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New Tue 10 Jul 12 08:28 
 Cheaper than diesel - Pat
Could this be the fuel of the furure?

www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/opinion/comment/from-the-archive-charcoal-lorry-successful-test-9-july-1936-1-2400168

Pat
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New Tue 10 Jul 12 08:35 
 Cheaper than diesel - Manatee
Well it wasn't, was it?

It's a bit short on technical detail. Maybe they captured CO from partial combustion and ran an Otto engine on it.

Must have had a reservoir for the gas - or imagine the throttle response :-)
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New Tue 10 Jul 12 09:01 
 Cheaper than diesel - Slidingpillar
It's 'producer gas'. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producer_gas

Quite popular in the second world war when oil was nearly unobtainable, but not very practical, nor I suspect, particularly efficient.
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New Tue 10 Jul 12 11:00 
 Cheaper than diesel - Manatee
>> It's 'producer gas'. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producer_gas

Rings a bell now. At least I got the chemistry right-ish!
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New Tue 10 Jul 12 09:24 
 Cheaper than diesel - L'escargot
Making charcoal. tinyurl.com/cnplby4

Cough, cough .............
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New Tue 10 Jul 12 10:40 
 Cheaper than diesel - Mike Hannon
A couple of people round here own 'gazogene'-powered WW2 era Citroens. I see them each summer at shows. Very clever but they are slooooow.
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