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[Ahmabeliever]

I really liked the car. I followed the address at the end of the clip and found journals of the cars journeys. It has run into many complications none of them major, just prototype stuff really.

This, from Wikipedia I really liked...

"Staged gasifiers, where pyrolysis and gasification occur separately (instead of in the same reaction zone as was the case in e.g. the WWII gasifiers) can be engineered to produce essentially tar-free gas (<1 mg/m³)."

So, if it's engineered right, it's all go! I would love a car like that, still want a steam whistle on it though, just to piss off the neighbours.

Seems pyrolysis is not only the best for TP, it's also the cleanest way to do it. And the rest of the tars must be somewhere aka resins in the charcoal.

I have a free tp supply, well, the wood. I have large leaved evergreen natives that I topped about a year ago to let light in. The regrowth is 2-4 cm thick sticks 3 - 4 metres in length. Soon, the largest can be taken and cut into chunks with pruners, the smaller allowed to 'grow to size' (diameter required). A perpetual supply provided I look after the trees.

Prunings are a great size for tp, I think smaller compostables should be just that, compost, various stick sizes for char, and wood to build with...

Increases income streams for orchardists, forestry, basically anyone with trees requiring maintenance.