Can cars run off pure wood chips for fuel instead of gasoline?

Question

pyrolisis or gasification of biofuels creating pure Hydrogen and CO2 and methane

Cars can and used to run on biofuels like wood and corn and coal. These are renewable resources. Even Kelp could be used any biofuel can be used.
Click the link to see Hitler's people's car the VW using wood.

http://ww2.whidbey.net/jameslux/woodgas.htm

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

nope. the current 'modern' car is only designed for liquid hydro-fuels.
maybe a strange new car could. but the byproducts wouldn't be simply 'hydrogen, CO2 and methane'. The cellulose breakdown is quite messy and inefficient.
I can't ever recall a decent scientific way to reduce wood to a clean and efficient fuel. CO2 and particulates would certainly be a byproduct, and thats what we get from gasoline anyway. The environment is not a big fan. We'd need a heck of a lot more trees to clean up all the atmospheric mess, trees we'd just cut down, chipped and turned into fuel.
It's not cost efficient either. We'd be better off fermenting grass and fungus to produce gas.
Horses run off grass, that was pretty efficient back in it's day.

Answer 3

processing woodchips would take more energy than it produces to your car. this is unlike other sources of cellulose like switchgrass and some other agricultural byproducts where you actually get a net gain (although it would be ethanol and not H2 or CH4). by the way, pyrolysis is just breaking things up by heat, not necessarily extracting energy.

H2 production from biofuels is a long way off.

Answer 4

well, not without extensive modification of course. in general mechanical energy can be extracted from virtually any temperature difference. burning wood to release energy in the form of heat could serve as a fuel source for some heat engines. However, the energy density that you get from liquid fuels simply cannot be matched with any techology that is feasible for the size restrictions imposed on automobiles.

Answer 5

Steam engines can run off pure wood chips.

Answer 6

Already environment is in danger due to deforestration.why do u want to increase it.Think something else my friend!!!

Answer 7

I don't know,it would certainly be cheaper than gas.

Answer 8

i doubt it