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Post by Freedom on Dec 6, 2009 21:58:13 GMT -5
Interesting article on a wood fired car, personaly it looks like a death trap, yet with a few refinements it could be ready for mass production. During WWII, there was a scarcity of oil in Sweden, they adapted cars, tractors and back yard saw mills to run on wood, it's an old technology. Video: www.youtube.com/v/kG8iR5DRLpwDaily Blog: www.vedbil.se/indexe.shtmlCooking lunch.
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Post by maddogblues on Dec 13, 2009 18:49:51 GMT -5
That is pretty interesting. My dad told me about the 'Stanley Steamer'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Motor_Carriage_CompanyThe problem with today's world is that the original inventor has been snookered by big business which has to co-opt every technology in order to corral the profits associated with the innovation. If you make something simple that works big business will make it so that it is complicated and expensive and then develop the 'support' infrastructure which enables the product to generate more profit through the need of qualified 'factory trained technicians'. Simple and cheap is not something western society thrives on. Big business has seen that if a man can fix his car in the yard on a Sunday afternoon that the consumer has a way of staying more or less even. 'Even' is not the game capitalism is playing. Capitalism's game is debt and more debt. Of course big business would point to the 'green house' effect of wood burning automobiles.
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