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No, no, its good to talk about stuff like this. How do they store the stuff ? You have to get a compressor and put it into a steel bottle ?

I've seen someone run a methane powered scooter, but it only got like 6 or 7 miles for 10 liters of uncompressed swamp gas

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Scruffy_Nerfherder@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
I saw a video where someone used an air compressor to fill a propane tank. The problem is that they used it right away. It can compress but I don't know how long it will store for. All I know about wood gas is that it is comprised of several gasses so do they separate? Do they turn into goo? More investigation is required.

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- iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  You can see wood gas if you make a fire.... fresh log on top starts giving off these whitish vapors. The 'fire' on the log starts when the vapor combusts. Vapour mix depends on humidity, O2 content etc and is different kinds of -thanes (methane, propane...) + volatile compounds like alcohols
  
  And I'll be damned, turns out wood gas is way more useful today, than the shitty old ones from early 1900s that everyone thinks of. They still make and sell the wood gas converters that can be attached to a normal gas car without any change needed. Roughly 25 lb of wood per gallon of petrol in a car:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
  
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  - Scruffy_Nerfherder@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    This really becomes interesting when you apply it to SHTF scenarios where you're largely on your own.
    
    Imagine a scenario like a real pandemic where you are one of the few people left. Wood gas is easy to make and with a little ingenuity can power lots of stuff.
    
    Gas is always better, but I can't make that.
    
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    iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    It definitely is. To answer the storage question, according to what I read, they don't store it, rather the 'digestor' creates gas from wood for immediate use. There are a lot of wood gas powered cars around the world today - mostly in very poor places.
    
    I wonder how you DIY create one to hook it to a car
    
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