These are they types of videos on KZread where I feel like I'm not just wasting my time

@shamusarms5476

4 жыл бұрын

knowledge is power, whether its from a book or a video

@DarinWixon

4 жыл бұрын

sarcasm

@agboolaalli7124

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to know which country he is based in?

@thomasdennis7451

3 жыл бұрын

Simply find another video to watch.

@AldoSchmedack

2 жыл бұрын

i agree this is fascinating!!!!!

Ha bee smoker! Its like you know I'm watching! I glad you are working on this, I tried and failed this about 8 years ago and never got around to trying again, I'd love to run something off sage brush one day.

@dravenmcgee3188

5 жыл бұрын

I think you should it be great to see you try. I was thinking about making a slightly larger one and using a water filtration system. I figured I could probably use mason jars and still keep it about the size of a paint can. I'd also use a one way air valve so smoke wouldn't come out. BTW I'm a big fan of your channel. I've been watching for years.

@psicopatalucifer

5 жыл бұрын

#1 .- replace the garden hose valves with a propane carburetor kit for generator from ebay. #2.- make a gas (smok) container that can pressurise the gas just 10 psi or so with directional valves , you know, inlet, outlet . #3.- install an air pump (electric or manual) to force air flow in the gas combustion chamber (reactor), making smok (gas) go to the inlet directional valve to the gas container to the outlet directional valve to the propane carburetor conversion kit in to the engine . Note: (As a pressurized gas container you can use a balloon or bicycle rubber inner tube tire .)

@psicopatalucifer

5 жыл бұрын

I run my generator on wood gas codys'Lab but I don't make a video because I don't want to be another disappear person.

@699hazard

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Cody, can you make the wood gas and store it in a a gas bottle then pressurise it with oxygen so you don't need to have a fire on your bike.

@TrollFaceTheMan

5 жыл бұрын

I would be interested to see your take on this too Cody. Might I ask the engine type/size you tried to use those years back?

Its occurred to me, that in the long term, wood pellets, for wood pellet stoves, would be a more convenient fuel. It would be consistent, and ensure maximum filling of the container.

@AutomationDnD

4 жыл бұрын

*I was thinking the SAME thing* / & how to make something like that (pellets/alt-wood) on your own in a SHTF situation where you must produce all your own fuel. / This type of project would also be in an Alcohol/Fuel series.... same reasoning.

@BlackSheepGreatfull

2 жыл бұрын

Using smoker pellets would be great! The filter chamber could also serve the secondary function of smoking a nice brisket!

@bascelik91

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, awesome idea! 1kg of wood pellet is cca 5kwh of energy :)

@JesusSaves86AB

2 жыл бұрын

You don't have to buy sticks and twigs though.

@niklar55

2 жыл бұрын

@@JesusSaves86AB The depends entirely on where you live. Even if you have the wood, a pelletiser would make the wood more convenient and effective. I live in an area where a lot of the people use wood for heating, but many have changed to pellet stoves for convenience, and cleanliness. Carting logs about is inconvenient and messy, and often need cutting to size. Also storing them is much the same. Pellets come in nice clean bags, ready for immediate use. Also, if you were to use them for a vehicle, they could be stacked in the vehicle ready, just like carrying a spare can of liquid fuel.

With Germany not having it's own source of oil, they ran a lot of their military vehicles on wood gas during the war.

@hwachahistorychannel1617

3 жыл бұрын

Running a Panzer 38t on Firewood. I'd love to see that

@murmenaattori6

3 жыл бұрын

@@hwachahistorychannel1617 They had some Tiger 1 chassis that used large wood gasifiers to save fuel and they were used for driver training.

@kevinj9942

2 жыл бұрын

True. often the best technological innovations comes from need not greed.

@seamusgray7609

Жыл бұрын

And HHO oxyhydrogen from water would be a good addition to make the most of whatever other combustible fuel!

@richlaue

Жыл бұрын

@@seamusgray7609 depends on how the HHO is produced.

id like to have a crack at this, looks fun

@gingernutpreacher

5 жыл бұрын

Don,t burn your self

@NayroTheAdventurer

5 жыл бұрын

I bet you could run a jet off of wood smoke.

@leathercheerio1

5 жыл бұрын

Kinda a waste of time to be honest..just not practical.

@dsldsl6460

5 жыл бұрын

Recover the exaust temp

@miguelfigueroa360

5 жыл бұрын

You won’t

My Dad (now 101!) used to run his car on a system like this back in the 1940s. He had a water filtration system that would filter the smoke from the wood gas.

@dravenmcgee3188

5 жыл бұрын

I was actually thinking a water filtration system would actually be great maybe using mason jars as a container

@malleusmaleficarum9248

5 жыл бұрын

All the best and heartfelt greetings for your Dad. :) This is a walking history card, so listen, listen, listen... and take notes!

@sub4rctic

5 жыл бұрын

bicycle bong. makes sense.

@richardsandwell2285

5 жыл бұрын

They also used to have a big balloon on the top of the cars to store the gas I think.

@jabosk3045

5 жыл бұрын

It would also help cool the gas

During world war II in Norway, we (not me, I wasn't born yet) had buses that ran on wood gas. It worked, but had some difficulty driving uphill. Passengers frequently had to get out and push the bus.

@Ilbriccodellorsosat

4 жыл бұрын

Near where i now live, in Italy, during world war II, a wood seller had the last woodgas fueled truck in the valley, that blew up in a german bombing!

@adorabasilwinterpock6035

3 жыл бұрын

Same in Sweden, although a lot of bus drivers died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning as they started the bus in the garage

@VerbenaIDK

Жыл бұрын

that rrminds me, i've seen on wikipedia that, ammonia was once used as fuel

Here's a helpful idea, disassemble the pull start and use either a battery powered drill or setup an electric starter. It will save a lot of wear and tear on your elbow and shoulder. For the filter, try using coffee filters and layer cedar, filter, cedar, filter, etc, etc. You will still get smoke, but less of it. For the gasifier, you need at least 2 of those smokers and probably 3 to keep that engine going. For the air intake, it needs to be at least 2 inch pipe, probably 3 inch would be better, and needs a filter to help keep dust, dirt, water, etc out of the intake.

We know that this is possible because at the end of WW2, the Germans were facing a fuel shortage, and all fuel was being used for the military effort, so people turned to converting their cars to run on wood gas using conversion kits. Eventually the military even produced some Holzbrenner “Wood burning” Volkswagen cars. There's probably more information on how this was pulled off if you dig around. One thing that came to mind a while ago in this project is why don't you come up with a way to compress the wood gas as it is made using a decent compressor and use it to fill a small tank at reasonably high pressure. I suspect that the solids would condense our settle out of the gas if you left it sitting in the take for a while, then use that to run the engine. That would eliminate the drag on the intake stroke which your system suffers from. Very cool project. Your videos are always a treat.

@Nighthawkinlight

5 жыл бұрын

There are several gasifier designs available for vehicles including an official set of plans distributed by FEMA, but they are complicated and do not have ease of manufacture in mind. I hope to come up with a simpler design, or at least one that can be pieced together from common items without excessive cutting and welding. You're right that particulate settles out of the gas if stored, but the energy density of woodgas is quite low, and so you won't get much run time out of a storage tank of a size that fits on a vehicle. Much better on a mobile setup if you're able to burn the gas immediately as it's produced. There is also apparently some issue with compressing woodgas where it becomes unstable at high pressures. Possibly because of the oxygen content that remains. I have not tested this, but there seems to be a consensus about it in my research.

@USWaterRockets

5 жыл бұрын

That makes perfect sense. Don't compress it then. Maybe work on a better way to extract the gas from the wood. The original design you had made could perhaps be scaled up?

@codyd4noob

5 жыл бұрын

The Germans also converted tiger 1 tanks to run on woodgas

@Punisher9419

5 жыл бұрын

They also made an experimental wood gas burning Tiger tank just without the turret.

@deffdapp5209

5 жыл бұрын

The North Koreans still do.

Edit: My new videos have been performing pretty poorly these days. You can help by sharing this video to relevant pages on facebook, reddit, etc.. Please don't spam on my behalf, but if you know of groups that would appreciate this video please do share it. Thanks! A few things I did not mention in the video: There is a small hole drilled into the elbow that connects the gas line to the lower valve on the intake. This allows any condensation that makes it past the filter to drain out. I also realized that the engine's upstroke is blowing a lot of my fuel right out of the intake as evidenced by the smoke pulsing out when the engine is running. I probably need to figure out a one way valve setup so the engine can blow off that backpressure through a different outlet than where the fuel/air comes in.

@eskisful

5 жыл бұрын

2 stroke scooters use reed valves to eliminate blow back into the carb. Not sure if that system is used on 4 strokes but could be useful in my opinion

@Pitirockeur38

5 жыл бұрын

Could you put Air compressed ? For help the combustion

@Nighthawkinlight

5 жыл бұрын

The gas is quite cool by the time it passes through the filter, so this may work.

@Gun4Freedom

5 жыл бұрын

NighHawkinLight, perhaps a modified EGR valve would withstand the temperatures required? If you used the housing at least, it might be servicable. Or maybe you could make something using a small housing with a spring and ball bearing sitting over an outlet that is tuned to open up with backpressure, then quickly shut.

@SinsBird

5 жыл бұрын

Why would an upstroke blow gas out of the intake? That does not make any sense. On the upstroke the intake valve is always closed.

I think the filtration of the gasifier is a key factor. I also think that you should incorporate a manual air pump that runs off the pedals to pump air into the gasifier (instead of the bellows). Love the video . Thank you for these brain exercising videos. Keep the creative juices flowing ...

I am sure you recieve a million compliments on your videos. I just want to let you know how much they are enjoyed and how much I learn from you. Thank you very much.

"My new car has a 3 bee smoker engine" Life in either 2154 or 1876

@KingJellyfishII

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao! My car runs 7 miles to the sycamore

@soupgaming5923

5 жыл бұрын

I have a "V8 smoker" :-P

@lazar2175

5 жыл бұрын

2 bee smoker... This will decimate all! *Reference to original Fast and Furious*

@maxximumb

5 жыл бұрын

Mine is running a three litre Bee-6 engine

@captaincrunch7944

5 жыл бұрын

Haha haha a Bee-6 that’s too funny .....mines humm-bee. And it’s a large block honeycomb bee-8

Using the bee smoker was a neat idea, good job on your first attempt! 👍

Nice demonstration of 100 plus years of gasifier tech. The problem is not a question of generating hydrogen and methane from wood fuel but rather how to handle the long chain hydrocarbons which form tars and eventually gum up the intake and carbonize in the combustion chamber, end of working engine. These tars require higher temperatures and longer resident times to convert further into Carbon Monoxide or other volatile byproducts. This in turn delays the length of time the gasifier must function to accomplish a task without actually burning up the constituents before sending them off to be used. Ultimately it is the tars that are the enemy and higher temperatures eventually tend to accumulate a final carbon layer accumulation so it's always an issue of accumulated fouling at one or more points in the system. That said, many methods have been attempted to filter out long chains but this is a toxic nightmare and secondary handling issue unless the handling of those tars can be re-routed back to the combustion process at some point. Inclusion of water vapor at combustion in the engine can help discharge the carbon formation but it's still abrasive and using water kills the ability to apply it in cold temperatures at risk of freezing. Next, one must understand that utilizing atmospheric air brings in some 80% plus nitrogen into the combustion process resulting in at least 3 species of No(x) emissions which combine with moisture in the atmosphere to form acidic byproducts affecting ocean and rain water side effects, highly destructive over time. The problem worsens in longer residence times to fight tar, generating higher volumes of NoX pollutants in solving for tar. The two problems lie at the opposing ends of a gradient of cause/effect inviting loss of simplicity if to make the process viable for mass production / application and support. Sealed gasifiers in batch mode generate a more viable manner of lower tars but then you have a potentially pressurized vessel filled with combustible gases. A single backfire invites catastrophe or at the least destabilizing a running processes if it could reach oxygen during a backfire. Batch processes of loading and unloading leave behind char residuals to handle (secondary carbon char gasifier), or waste accumulation. Assuming you solve these issues by some degree of simplicity, what do you do with the unused bio-gas when the fire continues to burn but the gas is not consumed? Since the gas produced is not pure methane or hydrogen or carbon monoxide, you cannot safely store it in containers unless those containers have an active mixing process inside them. Otherwise these gasses separate into their own respective layers and you get huge swings in volatility tapping from the top versus bottom etc. Nice demonstration as always, but unfortunately it needs to have an explanation of the downside complications so others are not inclined to waste time, money and injury without understanding the risks and complications. Thanks for the efforts. Nice demonstration as always.

@werewolf74

5 жыл бұрын

So you could run a water filtration system with just enough alcohol in it the stop freezing. If not for flammability you almost could just run alcohol. I'm not a chemist but it might also help capture or break down tars. the problem is think is most things you would introduce should be pretty dangerous. Like acetone to the mix for a cleaner burn. Maybe you could snatch up a bunch of cigarettes littering our planet and make a large filter, as they are designed to handle high heat and capture tar ....

@travischooter

4 жыл бұрын

urban you must be fun at party’s

@ballHand

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks poindexter

@expertgaming

4 жыл бұрын

@@travischooter very

@firefox5926

4 жыл бұрын

collect it then send it to a cracking tower lol

I think the filter that you need for the wood gas is activated carbon. It filters tar and other stuff really good out of smoke. That's the reason they put it in smoking pipes as a filter. Just fill a big tank with it and let the smoke pass through it.

@SoulTouchMusic93

Жыл бұрын

smart. you know where i've found something of sorts? when i've brought a filter for a kitchen extractor.

the gasifier i built years ago used activated charcoal and water in an old paint can that the wood gas bubbled through. the end result was pretty pure wood gas. you're probably also better off ditching the stock carburetor and building your own to replace it.

I love everything about this. Awesome engineering! You could make a wood gas generator to charge batteries.

@Gun4Freedom

5 жыл бұрын

This is a damn fantastic idea.

Food for thought: Install a second gas line water hose value on the gas line before the one on the engine. That way after you can turn up the one on the engine you can leave it turned tuned to run the engine and use the extra valve on the gas line just to open can close to release gas so you don't have to re fine turn your engine gas/oxygen valve every start also release gas also open it to start the gasifier. Wishing you had a electric starter yet? :P

My wife just came in and asked why Wesley from Star Trek next generation, was working on wood fuel driven bicycle when he can just beam himself wherever he needs to go. Really though, great vid. You are such a refreshing thinker/inventor/problem solver.

@patrickday4206

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@patrickday4206

3 ай бұрын

He got tired of working on warp drives

Why are so few people watching your videos? You are freaking awesome!!

@KingJellyfishII

5 жыл бұрын

Freaking awesome? I'd say more like absolutely and completely spectacularly awesome...

@AmxDude1969

5 жыл бұрын

Why not Dean a little of both...

@martybisschoff6000

5 жыл бұрын

Because cognitive dissonance and apathy is a worldwide phenomena friend. Society has reached the stage where most are conditioned to find thinking for themselves is a bothersome "chore." Much easier for most to be cynical and bitch. Sad, but true.

A one-way valve on the intake could make a difference. It looks like the engine is leaking gas on some parts of the engine cycle. This is bad, because the engine then sucks that air-gas mixture back in instead of just the air. It could also help the gasifier for the same reason. A filter stage using just water could help clean the gas (but might need to much pressure to pull).

i was smiling the whole video. Its just so awesome how far you got with this wood gas project

Que bueno que haya gente todavía que nos traiga éstos inventos tan maravillosos. Abrazo desde Argentina.

I like Your channel and I love Your English. :) For a person for whom English is not a native language, it is very important that the presenter speak slowly and clearly. Edit: My suggestions 1. Separate combustion chamber from gasified materials, so heating flame will be always the same and much bigger. 2. Introduce separated tank, only for produced gases. 3. Add one way valve to an air inlet. Edit2: 4. Use charcoal for filter and clean gases. 5. Use part of created gases to heat gasification tank (positive loop).

@wezerd

5 жыл бұрын

For the charcoal filter it's best to use activated charcoal, since it absorbs better than normal charcoal. Pretty cool ideas though.

@AmorDeae

5 жыл бұрын

make a schematic where would he put all this stuff on a bike like that. If he could, he would add a lot of things, but the space and weight is restricted.

@malleusmaleficarum9248

5 жыл бұрын

Efff, mounting any part of this stuff, including initial, is ridiculous. We are not thinking about, is this vehicle is reasonable (because it is not), but is post apocalyptic cyclist is faster than Lance Armstrong on all of their stuff ;)

@tomsmith6483

5 жыл бұрын

What if you compressed the air and wood gas entering the engine using some kind of a engine powerd turbine.

@Spooky_Dooky

5 жыл бұрын

Hammer of the Witches. Your username is not one I expected to see in the KZread comment section. If I may ask, why did you choose that for a username?

This is hands down my favourite video on KZread.

Holy crud. Seeing a lot of possibilities involving an orchard, routine pruning and a greenhouse. Thanks much!

Also I love the simplicity of the design keep up the good work!

The beesmoker is a neat idea, but to minimise smoke what you really want is a downdraft-gasifier design. Ive never tried this myself so this is book-knowledge, but it supposedly makes an enormous order-of-magnitude difference in terms of the amount of partial combustion products, as compared to the updraft system which your beesmoker seems to be. It makes sense too, since if the air moves in the same direction as the combustion front, the combustion products will pass over the hot coals last, allowing them to be maximally reduced.

@mikeguitar9769

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly right. It also produces less tar to use charcoal fuel. He's got way too much tar and it will clog the engine valves in short order.

@eelcohoogendoorn8044

5 жыл бұрын

Would coal gasify as readily as wood though? I have not seen it been done in such small setups with more crude process control. Not sure what the immediate impact of tar on the engine is (I imagine most of it would burn quite ok once in the cylinder?), but even without any tar I fear the setup is underpowered. Thermal processes don't scale down nice and proportionally; you need some minimal volume to sustain and isolate a nice and high temp burn front; so taking a car-sized gasifier and scaling it down proportional to the required wattage might not be a great idea. You need an insulated space to get a nice and white hot region to gasify optimally, and intuitively I don't see such a white heat being very confinable in such a small volume. With a loosely packed fuel in a small volume like this, the dynamic is more likely such that youd be driving off water at low temp (and thus tar) throughout the container initially, rather than achieving a more continuous burning front with a more or less constant gas composition. Coal would help with those concerns I suppose; given that it does not have such a complex burning process it should be simpler to contain; coals are either hot enough to form CO or they are not.

You can make it pass through lime water to absorb CO2

@kwinvdv

5 жыл бұрын

This might also remove more of the water vapor (as long as the lime water is cold enough).

@AmorDeae

5 жыл бұрын

It would be additional weight, and it woukd have to go through a lot of it because gas absorption in liquids is very slow if it comes to extracting at least 10% of the gas.

@jp5481

5 жыл бұрын

How about a cannister of lithium hydroxide as in a diving rebreather? Of course, it is additional weight again. You're also perhaps getting away from the intention of running an engine entirely on natural fuel if you need LiOH to run it!

It really sucks KZread's algorithm is screwing over good KZreadrs like you.

You need to treat these start issues as if you are using propane gas! Wood-Gas, you need a flare pipe pre carby and light that first! You need to light it and allow it to burn bright, and this will eliminate the smoke issue you have! Also, that system is only really suited to a fixed engine speed unless you have E = mc2 , thus a clutch will be required for the operation of the vehicle unless you can regulate the air fuel mixture correctly for muli purpose throttle operations. Especially generators as they are governed! They work for most purposes just fine at fixed speeds other than welding or other intermediate sudden high-demand situations! Well done all the same! I'm very impressed.

A conveniently located choke control would be helpful here. That way you don't have to rush around and adjust the intake. Another point is that many of these new small engines are designed to self choke with gas and won't open up until they're running past a certain point. That could be another issue you're running into. A 4 stroke gas weed eater might be worth looking into. Most of those still have separate manual choke assemblies.

You make really good videos, after watching any of them I always feel like I learned something. Your presentation style makes it easy to follow along. Thanks for continuing to make fun educational videos, it is appreciated. Also, keep doing the video endings with the bird :-)

I have been binging your videos now for a few weeks you are such a great creator and teacher! Thank you!

Love it!!! So two thing's that may help, 1) elm wood provides a higher methane gas than most woods. 2) When lighting the tinder....the tinder should burn from the top down as in the direction of your draft. When lit from the bottom burn rate is diminished by draft

@GeraldW-cl4yr

3 ай бұрын

I had some afterthoughts as seen above.

Did you ever finish this project? I'm very much in love with the idea of non-traditional fuel ran engines.

@zach3096

Жыл бұрын

Look up Wayne Keith and his trucks friend

@RakuGoku

Жыл бұрын

@@zach3096 Will do. Thanks 👍 Any idea for key search words? Or just Wayne Keith and his trucks?😅

Looks like you could use a one way valve on the intake

@shawnphillips2556

2 жыл бұрын

This is the best idea so far

Man, I love your style of doing stuff and documenting it, narration, script, ideas, all that stuff! Kudos, friend 🤝 Best wishes from Ukraine =)

Imagine smelling like a campfire after driving to work everyday. Worth it.

I understand from KZread that cooling the gas (smoke) makes it more combustible. Improve filtering to prevent engine gumming up.

FINALLY! The wait was soooooooooo long!

I hope you keep refining your ideas.

This was the first video of you I saw and I was immediately really impressed, but now that I know how brilliant you are, from watching your other videos, I'm convinced you can do better than this and get it to work. Would be awesome to see. :)

It looks to me like Wood gas is being lost out of the air inlet. If you added a one-way valve to the inlet it would prevent this. Although it wouldn't help the already low air flow.

PTSD flashbacks to that outboard I had as a kid. Seriously though, another awesome video. The bee smoker it genius.

Now that's a lot of KNOWLEDGE and CONVERSION! Plus here shared for free

Gonna have to play with this experiment one day. Simply awesome.

Up next on NightHawkinLight: "Woodgas 3 stage rocket to the Moon and Back."

You are guaranteed to succeed with this, with a wee bit of fine tuning - but you are also guaranteed to gum up the engine with tar in just a couple of hours :( . Been there, done that - got the tee shirt. Sadly, there is really NO way to filter the tar out, but it IS possible to produce woodgas that is clean enough to be as invisible as air. A deep charcoal bed, and HIGH combustion temperatures are elemental to success in this regard. Once you get those aspects under control, you will be amazed at how clean, and smokeless, your fuel gas will become. By the way, I totally love this video, and I really wish more people wood give this a go :) .

@MorneBooysen

5 жыл бұрын

We do this to a large industrial scale 24/7 in South Africa to make our final petrol and diesel fuels which will rival even the cleanest fuel in the world... so it is possible. The benefit of this type of fuel production is low sulphur, we even have to add sulphur components just to ensure proper hydrotreating catalyst function downstream of the fisher trops process (gas shift) after this gasification step! Getting tar and pitch out is easy, let it cool down and filter and drain it. But yes you do need a lot of steps of filter and distillations to get good clean fuel for engine grade. Still, this is super interesting experiments!! Btw all information in this comment is public knowledge. I'm not representing my company with this statement.

@jordanshelton331

4 жыл бұрын

CNCmachiningisfun by

@ZuluLifesaBeech-

4 жыл бұрын

@@MorneBooysen Fisher Trops Process was something the Germans were doing to keep their aircraft and vehicles going during WW 2, right?

@MorneBooysen

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZuluLifesaBeech- not sure, but I definately have heard the same story before. but commercialising it to scale is rare and as far as i know only in Sout Africa

@crestfallensunbro6001

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZuluLifesaBeech- it was used for some civilian and training vehicles by Germany

Best diy video I've seen in awhile.Thanks for the info , really got me thinking. Thx.

Very cool project. I have never seen a wood powered bicycle on the road! They used to run cars during WW2. I wouldn't mind running a generator this way. Good back up for solar and wind. Keep it up friend.

Use a venturi to draw air into the engine- consider a carb design that can meter it a bit better? make the float raised by gas buildup instead of liquid fuel. Also, different spark plugs may perform better. Then just need a clutch/belt to the bellows for pedal start!

Thanks for the information.

It might not be too practical to have the wood-burning stove on the bike itself, but I do see storing up woodgas from your wood-burning stove during winter into a container that you can put onto a motorized vehicle. This is cool!

I wish you'd have been my science teacher, or at least in my class (you look forever youthful, hard to tell lol). I'd have learned way more. Thanks for making science fun and interesting again!

This is really creative and clever. I'm glad I watched it. I wonder if some kind of tank/regulator between the gasification tank and the engine would keep a "buffer" of wood gas so the engine got consistent stream. In any case, thanks, and keep making clever things (and showing us how to also)!

In my polymer chemistry researches I've stumbelled upon gasification as a means of "recycling"/reuse old plastic. You might give it a try in the same system. Apparently one can expect the output gas to be around 25-35% CO and 55-65% H2 while also producing small amounts of CH4 and C2H6. I wonder how it would run the bike? Might not be as "green" as woodgas tho.

what a wonderful contraption!

Great ingenuity.. Keep up the gadget making. Look forward to mark 2.

When going anywhere in a wood-fueled car, remember to keep a cordless circular saw and a hatchet in the trunk. Tree branches, pallets, scrap lumber, demolition debris, you name it.

@DoulosDS

5 жыл бұрын

Like the "Mr. Fusion" on the future Delorean... ;?)

@stuffhappensdownsouth9899

5 жыл бұрын

@@DoulosDS yea you can literally toss trash into it or even feces

@TF2Scout..

Күн бұрын

Important thingis to have wood dry as possible

I'm still waiting for the follow up on this! I'd love to see the bike drive a bit!

@bascelik91

2 жыл бұрын

this is exactly what I need in my village which is 40 km away from nearest city...

You're absolutely brilliant!!! Great video as always.

Wow! You have done what I want to do for my DYI Woodgas project. Awesome... :)

Your videos are always interesting ... I remember that in the mines there were carbon monoxide filters that contained caustic soda in flakes and that was the one that retained the carbon monoxide, maybe eliminate the carbon monoxide from the wood gas help this wood gas is more flammable and so the engine is sustained running ... but you are the expert and the one who knows more. SALUDOS !!! Tus videos son siempre interesantes ... Recuerdo que en las minas existían filtros de monoxido de carbono que contenían sosa cáustica en escamas y que era la que retenía el monóxido de carbono , quiza eliminar el monóxico de carbono del gas de madera ayude a que este gas de madera sea mas inflamable y así se sostenga el motor funcionando ....pero Tu eres el experto y el que sabe mas . Saludos !!!

@miguelchacon2717

5 жыл бұрын

Dude carbon monoxide is flammable

@KingJellyfishII

5 жыл бұрын

^^

@sub4rctic

5 жыл бұрын

You want to filter out water vapor, tar, and particulate and keep the carbon monoxide. CO is the fuel.

StarLite: awesome job tying this together! It is in fact, almost the same formulation as some "Slime" mixtures. :-). I added a contact lens solution to reduce stickiness and it work just as well I think many of us should start working to finding applications to help place this material into fire fighter suits. This might help fire up the industry? Too bad the original inventor got too greedy. :-(

@timothyhaug2060

4 жыл бұрын

The kids have the formula and are refusing to share. They are STILL "working" on bringing to market. In the meantime, thousands have unnecessarily died because a technology was available to save their lives.

I can't believe I just found your channel you are the man!

Try using charcoal and if you get it going then wrap a copper coil around the fire box to make steam and let steam go into the intake of the gasifier, but not directly in. If your charcoal is hot enough you will then make hydrogen. Charcoal gas blue orange flame, hydrogen the flame becomes whiter. Just have to balance things and it will work. Charcoal is cleaner than wood chips and will not gum up the motor as bad and as quick especially with a good filter, try charcoal as a filter also but use a foam oil filter, (like in a lawn mower) last so char dust does not go trough the intake. I once made a geet lawn mower, could only get it to idol but when i mixed water with the gas it ran a little better and had to shut the air valve down to a crack the thickness of my thumbnail, very small opening. It was producing hydrogen! Great video, keep on going you will get it.

Would love to see the update to this with the larger setup, if you can get this bike running at full throttle with no issues I feel like it would be awesome because then you could take the ratios of size of gasification chamber to size CC engine and really take any 4stroke and run it this was especially since these wood gas systems are carbon neutral, you could run a sawmill, vehicle, generator, you could combine this with a flywheel power generation setup and basically run your house with almost no environmental impact

ive never clicked on a video so fast,, absolutely in love with your channel and everything you do. When i was 13 i made the air compressor airsoft gun and fell in love with making things.

Very interesting presentation enjoyed watching and learned a lot take care peace ☮️ from Welland Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

Thank you for sharing. Fun and educational to watch. I like your bird too.

Saw it done to a small puck up truck

Another video I wasn't notified about. Excellent! The smoke can reminds me of the "Tin Man" from the Wizard of Oz. LOL Not a good project for people with respiratory problems. :-)

Someone below mentioned a water based filter - and right away my mind went to a Rainbow Vacuum cleaner where they filter dirt our of the air by pulling it through a water tank on the bottom. I initially laughed at the Rainbow design until I tested how clean the air was coming out, and it was AMAZINGLY clean (the smallest particulates end up in the water tank)! Yes, my wife had the last laugh. And the Rainbow is 25 years old and still going strong (and replacement parts are cheap, too). I'll bet a simple one stage water filter would do it. That is what I will use on my Wood Gasifier for my generator. Good video!

Very cool! I hope that I get to watch you ride it a mile.

great now all you need to do is add a cam to the wheel so that ever time it gots around it squeeses the bellows lol

Hello my dear friend!!! I was impressed with your idea. That's cool. Here are my first thoughts on how to improve the design. I am sure that you yourself have reached them. 1) Use the best weatherization of the gas chamber. 2) be sure to warm the filtration chamber. 3) use wood chips from oak or birch, and not from resinous wood. 4) It may be better to dry the wood before using it, or to take the chamber drying chips. 5) position the filtration chamber around the tank with chips. this way it will warm up faster and will itself serve as a thermal insulating layer for the combustion chamber. You can make it from an iron can of larger diameter and place the combustion chamber inside. I hope I understandably translated my thoughts from Russian to English. I can send a drawing if something is not clear)) With interest I will follow the project.

Love the Jörg Sprave chuckle at 4:09, lol.

The human race needed you 500 years ago.

A Venturi on the air intake would definitely help pull that oxygen into the chamber. Possibly even forced induction?? Like a supercharger... You could even hook the peddle up to a pump. Haha although I would imagine not peddling is sort of the whole point. :)

@superstarr310

5 жыл бұрын

Anchor Bait forced induction*?

@anchorbait6662

5 жыл бұрын

@@superstarr310 compressing the air coming into the engine. It's what turbochargers and superchargers do.

@TheOwenMajor

5 жыл бұрын

You wrote "forced education" bud.

@superstarr310

5 жыл бұрын

Anchor Bait oh I know what forces induction is ahaha

@anchorbait6662

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheOwenMajor oh gotcha. Ha it all makes sense now. Cheers

Bubble the wood gas threw water and an airstone, make the water ice water to pull the tar and smoke out fast

@chriscandidi4912

3 жыл бұрын

Ty

Hey man, just stumbled upon your videos. Amazing stuff! :) Thanks for doing it.

If you're still at this project at some point I would try damp gravel for a filter. Also leave the lid off till it idles, yes that means less fuel but it also means keeping the system going until it's ready to handle a higher load. Hopefully that would work. Best of luck and I definitely like your work.

Good 2 stroke engines have Autolube, so no need to mix oil with the fuel!

@Nighthawkinlight

5 жыл бұрын

Forgot about that option

@jkgkjgkijk

4 жыл бұрын

Oil injectors not autolube. I.e., jet ski 2 cycle engines

@adamlaw2645

4 жыл бұрын

@@jkgkjgkijk Not sure what your point is?

@timothyhaug2060

4 жыл бұрын

Your still injecting oil into the cylinder. Might as well just set the engine to run on kerosene or other oil based fuel at that point. The main purpose as I see it is to use as little oil as possible for a survival / shortage scenario. Using any form of 2 cycle engine would defeat that purpose.

@adamlaw2645

4 жыл бұрын

@@timothyhaug2060 You are, but a 4 stroke still uses oil for lubrication even if it's running on wood gas!

You look like Will Wheaton if he did actual science experiments. You're way cooler than him.

@ninetails6218

5 жыл бұрын

TheDandyMan Will Wheaton is a soyboy nowadays. “Shut up Wesley.”

@koonanthony

5 жыл бұрын

I think he looks more like Liam Neeson

@RobMacKendrick

5 жыл бұрын

You're both wrong. It's Justin Trudeau.

@denniswoycheshen

5 жыл бұрын

Elijah Wood?? Must be a cousin.

@jesusisalive3227

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking he looks like Ted Cruz.

NightHawnInLight, Cody'sLab, and colinfurze have always been some of my favorite channels! Thank you all for doing what you do and inspiring me too!

@GamingAmbienceLive

4 жыл бұрын

Tits thank you

FABULOUS!... thank you for sharing!

I think you just need an air pump, the fire container is big enough it's just like a smaller tank. The pump could risen the woodgas process and also you are producing some compression.

@pilfit

5 жыл бұрын

yes, you need an air pump... Turbo charge it!

Is there a reason you can't pre-make the wood gas and store it in a tank on the bike? Then you can filter it more efficiently offsite. Also, it seems like if you were to crash the bike the flaming pieces of wood might be a safety hazard.

@davelowe1977

5 жыл бұрын

Fakjbf Compressing it into a pressure vessel is a nontrivial problem.

As for ideas I recommend trying a double din system in an upside down "U" riding on top of the back seat area. Have one side of the U manage the woodgas and the other side manage the filter/other components. I figure this would be a nice balance for your design.

That is the cutest little parrot..... so cute, so happy so fun.

I think it would be too complicated and heavy to make one work, at least for a bike, that is used to run the engine directly. Seems it would be better to size the gas producer to produce gas at say 70 percent of full RPM but have it flow into a tank and then run the engine from the now cleaned and constantly pressurized gas from the tank. Start the burner and once the tank is full enough, you go. Running full out you would be depleting the tank but every time you slowed down or stopped the tank is filling. Had a big Dodge truck that ran on propane. Only had a tank, but if I had something to produce propane I could have used it in a similar manner. The propane pressure was always enough to keep the engine running until the propane got low. A gas carburetor and maybe a pedal assist pump to pressurize the tank until it was self sufficient might work. The truck had a 440 in it and a forty gallon tank, so scaling that down to bike size then a 3 to 5 gallon tank could give plenty of endurance, Just an idea.

mrtestlonian i so forgot about him ..he was way out in left feild with that robo suit he was making i couldn't watch it any more

@verothacamaro

5 жыл бұрын

John Connor his channel is still one of my favorites. Very clever dude.

@MsSomeonenew

5 жыл бұрын

Was your objections to the robo suit tied to your name...

@AuditorsUnited

5 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha

I love the woodgas series, I'd love to see you do a bio-diesel processor out of something like a second hand electric water heater, you have a pretty good video quality and do things in depth.

You have turned my clearing of acers of land into an adventure!

I would recommend compressing the wood for a few thousand years untill it becomes gas

@Steve_Just_Steve

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if a compressed briquette made in a hydraulic press would work well

@paulgleason1

5 жыл бұрын

I understand that's what Venezuela's trying with their oil economy. 😄

@mwmalecky

5 жыл бұрын

XD

I have a few thoughts, all admittedly based on theory and research rather than practical experience, so take them for what they're worth to you. First, I agree with the comments about using a check valve on the air inlet. The engine should be able to pull enough vacuum to work against a light spring or counterweight, and it would help contain the woodgas you've worked so hard to produce. Second, I agree with the suggestion to remove the stock carburetor. It's not doing anything useful while running on woodgas. It could in theory allow you to start the engine on a liquid fuel (homebrew ethanol or methanol, perhaps?), but otherwise it's just adding weight and restriction to the intake. It's probably not a major issue, but why not simplify the system as much as possible? Third, I suspect you could benefit from a small woodgas accumulator between the generator and the engine. For a first attempt, I'd probably try a Mylar balloon attached to a tee in the fuel line. That would possibly allow the generator to keep producing while the engine is idling, or off, and give a little reserve capacity at higher load. Otherwise, the generator has to produce enough woodgas to run the engine at full load, which means it has to be significantly larger.

Good Lord this is amazing. I think you should do more things like your desalination bottle, that people could easily make and be very useful for them. But damn that was great.

I guess if you install the beef smoker close enough to the intake air of the engine, it will help to maintain the gas temperature on high. Thus it will make the engine to be easier to start up. And then what about to add more oxygen on the intake air, experimentally if we could find the best ratio of the smoke/gas and air/oxygen then we could maintain the engine on run. But, anyway you have invented the solution of our crisis of energy source. By the way, i'm sory that my english is not very good...I'm from Indonesia. I love this channel and your invention👍👍👍