{"id":16203,"date":"2011-07-30T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=16203"},"modified":"2011-07-29T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:22:59","slug":"wood-burning-vehicles-are-hard-to-come-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2011\/wood-burning-vehicles-are-hard-to-come-by\/","title":{"rendered":"wood-burning vehicles are hard to come by"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I was reading “Rural North America”<\/a> by Michael Tobis when I came across this claim:<\/p>\n

Even in places that are sufficiently forested and unpopulated to draw on wood for energy, wood-burning vehicles are hard to come by<\/i>, […] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t dispute the claim that wood-burning vehicles are hard to come by in Rural North America. I merely wondered if they are common place anywhere and what they might look like. Naturally, I went to google. I found Beaver Energy<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Mercury Cougar XR7 had little measurable impact on the American automotive landscape, but the Cougar featured in TRANSLOGIC 64 is a little different–so much so that its owner even changed its name. Although “Beaver” is a strange moniker for a car, Chip Beam has a good reason for naming his ride after the trunk-chewing critter; after all, the Beaver XR7 runs on wood (or any other organic material) through a process called gasification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also found this hobby site<\/a> by Australian Christians who discuss their wood burning vehicle. Their fuel economy appears to be 2km\/kg. This seems similar to values quotes at green autoblog.<\/a> Island breath<\/a> suggests “their range is comparable to that of electric cars.”. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if you do want a wood powered car, Beaver Energy has a category on Building Your Own Wood Powered Car.<\/a> It looks like you’ll have to sacrifice trunk space to make room for the wood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I was reading “Rural North America” by Michael Tobis when I came across this claim: Even in places that are sufficiently forested and unpopulated to draw on wood for energy, wood-burning vehicles are hard to come by, […] I don’t dispute the claim that wood-burning vehicles are hard to come by in Rural North … Continue reading wood-burning vehicles are hard to come by<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}