[TheForge] eco coke OT:

[Jerry Frost]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] eco coke OT:


> 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
> ______________________________________________________________
>

Agreed Bruce that's almost undoubradly the more efficient method. During the 
war though they used the smoke and unconsumed wood alcohol as fuel. The rigs 
looked like a cobbled together wood stove with the stack curving back under 
the hood and they smoked like crazy in operation.

Also, I owe you a vote of thanks for triggering my memory. The stoves I'm 
referring to in the other part of this subject is "Wood Gassification 
Stoves." I knew it'd turn up  sooner or later.

Jer