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Old 08-10-2017, 05:48 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Wood and charcoal gasifiers were quite popular during WWII. Using it as a replacement to the battery in a hybrid, on the other hand, doesn't sound viable. But anyway, maybe if one could get the engine in a BAS-Hybrid vehicle optimized to run on wood gas (which tends to be quite poor on its energy content due to many impurities) and eventually recover some of the heat applied to the gasifying process, would be interesting to say the least.
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