What the heck IS wood gas anyway?

So you may be wondering, what is wood gas? Wood gas uses wood burned in a low oxygen environment to produce a fuel that can power your car. The technology has been around for a long time, in fact 95% of all vehicles in occupied Denmark were run on wood during World War II. The technology is simple enough, when you burn wood without much air, you crack apart the molecules that it's made of and generate flammable gases that your car can run on. Operating a wood gas vehicle is currently very complicated because there is a long procedure for starting the gas production unit, and there is a lot of tweaking that must be done by hand in order to get a vehicle running smoothly on the gas. My goal with this project is to teach you a bit about the history of how wood gas used to be made, and bring this technology into the 21st century with computer controlled systems that will allow the average person to drive a wood powered car. Follow me as I build my own wood powered car and learn how this technology could be the fuel of the future! PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS, I want to hear from you!

This is a basic wood gasifier. Wood fuel is burnt in the gasifier unit with little oxygen and is filtered to remove tar and ash. The gas is then mixed with air and is ready to be burn in an engine

Here is an example of a wood gas car from World War II