[TheForge] eco coke OT:

[Bruce Freeman]

The would not necessarily produce charcoal.  Get coke or charcoal hot,
apply water vapor, and you get water gas -- CO + H2 -- by an
endothermic reaction.  If there isn't heat enough, you blow in a
little air to make CO, rather than CO2.  So, in principal, you could
balance it all out so you'd gasify the wood to methanol, CO, hydrogen,
etc., leaving only ash behind.

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:46 PM, peter fels <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> Actually Jerry;
> There were wood powered cars that burned the volatiles off wood in both the US and Germany in WW2.
> They must have made charcoal as a by-product.
> Of course the Stanley Steamer which burned either was a very impressive car in it's day.
-- 
Bruce
NJ