Gasifier powered bikes

[Steam]

GASIFIERS are the way of the future. Ugly but simple, powerful, and carbon-neutral. Burn anything you want, scrap wood, grass, anything that'll burn. And the fuel is FREE! Just scrap.
I can't find any more information about these bikes, but this really lights up my imagination. I want to make one!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
http://www.uraldnepr.dk/Ombygninger.htm
http://www.woodgas.com/history6.htm

[deanohit]

Interesting mate, would be a fun thing to pull up at the tip and say to the guy on the gate "fill her up mate".

[Boob Johnson]

Interesting mate, would be a fun thing to pull up at the tip and say to the guy on the gate "fill her up mate".

lmfao!!! Nice one guvna


Great idea. Interesting to know what kind of horse/wood power it produces

[Steam]

Interesting to know what kind of horse/wood power it produces

LPG conversions of petrol engines typically result in up to a 10% reduction in power. Wonder if it's a similar reduction.

[gijoe1313]

Very Heath Robinson! I like! Chitty-chitty bang-bang!

[Boob Johnson]

LPG conversions of petrol engines typically result in up to a 10% reduction in power. Wonder if it's a similar reduction.

Yeah had one of those years ago, an XA Falcon station wagon with a 90 litre tank, $40 lasted two weeks of daily driving, brilliant

[dmouse]

thats awsome now how about this for an idea !!!

convert that sidecar into a coffin and you could become a moblie crematuriam there wold be no end of people from cages you could run it on and wow the grin factor alone would give me a severe jaw ache lol

[Steam]

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[dmouse]

i wonder if you ran this cool machine on bodies from cage wrecks it would smoke like these farkin black cloud things we have to put up with now ?? and would it smell like roast beef if so that could cause a problem as there are some people out there that would be offended as they are greenie ? would they complain i wonder ? it certainly would help the old envirpment would it not ?? i guess you cant win there would allways be someone to spoil your fun and piss on the parade o well chaps back to the drawing board eric pass me a pencil mate

[Conquiztador]

GASIFIERS are the way of the future. Ugly but simple, powerful, and carbon-neutral. Burn anything you want, scrap wood, grass, anything that'll burn. And the fuel is FREE! Just scrap.
I can't find any more information about these bikes, but this really lights up my imagination. I want to make one!

Common in the 2WW when all petrol was needed for the war machines.

[N1CK]

Hows it carbon-neutral?
What happens to the gases after the 'crap' is burnt?

[oldrider]

Common in the 2WW when all petrol was needed for the war machines.

Very true, this came to mid for me too but "common" might be a bit much. Cheers John.

[ManDownUnder]

Read the biography of Burt Munro. He was pretty handy with the old gasifier back in the day when fuel was scarce and the family car needed something to push it along.

[Steam]

Hows it carbon-neutral?
What happens to the gases after the 'crap' is burnt?

Burning any living matter - wood, etc, is carbon neutral because the carbon dioxide would have been released anyway when the wood rotted.
Burning wood is fine for the atmosphere, there's soot but that falls to earth eventually.

[Hitcher]

Gasifiers were popular during WWII when petrol was rationed. Cars and trucks in those days had running boards which lent themselves to fitment. Some hippie on the Coromandel in the early 1980s had modified an old Bedford to run on producer gas from a gasifier, quite effectively too, apart from a gizmo strapped to the side that looked like something one would find up Copperhead Road.