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Old 10-12-2010, 04:14 PM   #9 (permalink)
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On a fuel-injected vehicle, all you would need to do is add a switch that turns the fuel injectors on and off.

You would pipe the synthesis gas into the air intake of the engine.
Simply turning the fuel injectors on or off would allow you to run the vehicle on either the wood gas OR gasoline.

Also, a number of alternative fuels are good at running a car, but not STARTING it. (For example, ethanol systems in cold climates.)

The hybrid system would make it easy to start the vehicle on gasoline, but run it on wood gas.
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