Re: GAS-L: Re: Tom Reeds definitions

[Tom Miles <tmiles@teleport.com>]

Tom Reed,

I'm reminded of the discussion about vehicle gasifiers at your 1979 
Workshop on Air Gasification with Eric Johannson who was then Director of 
the National Swedish Testing Institute for Agricultural Machinery. When we 
asked him about the reliability of producer gas vehicles he said: "Oh 
you'll get where you want to go . . . but you have to have the time."

Tom M.




At 09:11 AM 3/29/01 -0500, Reedtb2@cs.com wrote:
>Dear Alan:
>
>Thanks for the first hand observations...
>
>If you had had wood pellets you could have gone 150 miles between fillups.
>
>TOM REED
>
>In a message dated 3/28/01 11:04:12 AM Mountain Standard Time,
>ovencrft@nbn.com writes:
>
>
>>
>>Just a minor point that in Australia during the WW11 the popular name for
>>the solid fuel (charcoal I think) auto truck and tractor gasifiers was "gas
>>producers". They were on every car on the runing board or mounted on the
>>rear luggage rack. They took 1/2 hour to get going and took a car 50 miles
>>before refuelling was necessary. This was always a good time to boil up a
>>"billy" of water for a hot cuppa tea and a smoke before continuing on the
>>way (not easy to find your way as all the road signs were removed to hinder
>>the Japanese invaders).
>>
>>Check out the web site for OVENCRAFTERS at http://www.nbn.com/~ovncraft
>

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