So the engine could run on both gasoline and the "gases" the wood created
when burning? Or maybe it was steam pressure?

- A California dweller

"ceed"
<ceed@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqr stuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com>
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> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:49:50 -0500, dwacon. > wrote:
>
>>> 40lbs of good smokey oak lump for $13 here is California. Better'n RO
>>> for
>>> Q.
>> If only you could run your car on it... rather than the nearly $4/gallon
>> gasoline!
>
> Actually, you can. Or could rather. In Norway where I am from originally
> people had cars during World War II that ran on wood chunks. These cars
> had a "generator" on the back where they threw the wood chuncks in. It
> burnt and generated gases the car ran on. This fuel was called "knott".
> This was the only available fuel back then. All the gasoline and oil
> products went to the nazi occupants. The only picture I could find is of
> a bus with a generator on the back:
>
> http://lotus.uib.no/norgeslexi/krigs...generator.html
>
> Would be a dream machine for the BBQ fanatic: A self propelled pit!
>
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