Two Guys Find Out How Much Wood a Wood Truck Trucks
Posted by Mike Levine | May 27, 2009
While many were content to celebrate Memorial Day weekend barbecuing over an open fire, George and Ford Reiche used a grill of a different type to power their newly bought truck cross-country, from Alabama to Maine. Dubbed "Termite," the Reiches' 1991 Dodge Dakota uses a wood-burning reactor to create wood gas that's fed into the engine's intake for combustion instead of gasoline, though a gasoline fuel system is still used as a backup. The Termite burns about one pound of wood for each mile driven, which gives it about a 5,000-mile range on a cord of wood.
For the full story of their journey branching out into a new type of fuel system, check out their "Migration of the Termite" blog.
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RE: "The Termite burns about one pound of wood for each mile driven, which gives it about a 5,000-mile range on a cord of wood", this truck doesn't have a very large load capacity. Plus with all the wood in the back, there's no room for other cargo.
This is nothing new.WW2 VWs were fitted with wood burning reactors to power their stock rear mounted air cooled engines due to fuel shortages.60+ years later its finally making a reappearance?
VW's nothing..
wood gasifiers were popular in the rural NorthEast through Upper Midwest from the onset of the Depression through WWII..
but I can see the tree-huggin hippies having conniption fits over this screaming GREENHOUSE! GREENHOUSE! GREENHOUSE! and running to Washington to get Jesus Obama to ban them...
I wouldn't want this because it seems unpractical
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