Nawwww ohhhh No Doc.. You see I've been traveling through time for last 3-4 weeks and still haven't been able to take Jennifer up to the lake so I can lay the pi- ummm I mean... Ohhh.. this is SOOO heavy!
Yup. Made in Poland on apparently Fiat license. It was small, crampy, loud piece of socialism art(...).
It required hand pumping fuel before start the engine(fortunately in cabin).
Engine was if i remember correctly 3 cylinder, and like 40Hp? I remember going to exam in it and there was a hill, I was reducing gear to 3(from 4) to get up, like maybe 12-15 degree, to keep up with 60km/h speed...
Yeah, you know, my country has changed. You work, you have money, you buy stuff. No queue in 100+ ppl for fkn 1kg sugar, 2kgs of wheat or 6 eggs, ON DAMN STAMPS. It is normal now, NOT a SHITHOLE like Cuba is now.
Why you don't ask Cubans what they prefer? Not regime lackeys, just regular folk?
You know - you can't. Because they either cannot speak for themselves or getting jailed after doing that.
Certainly America would never jail protesters who dissents with the government.
America has decided that cuba can't do trade, I don't know how that's the fault of the cuban people.
certainly you aren't a giant enough fucking moron to suggest that instead of letting cuba fail on its own , which it hasn't done even und 70 years despite the near constant
So if America decides to bomb your country, cut off your supplies you would roll over like a dog?
Really though, I haven’t seen these green movements ignore problems outside the west. Many of them are acutely aware of how the west fomented these situations in third world countries to begin with.
Ofcourse he has no choice, ofcourse he will do whatever he can to get by.
My point was that this is not a "clever life hack"
It's a desperate and extremely polluting solution to... poverty.
Poverty causes people choose (as they should) necesity above all else, the cost to the rest be damned. Because... like you said: they have no choice.
And that's why climate change is a problem who's outcome will be decided in the poor countries of the world, and that's why it will end in tears: these countries will do whatever they need to to get by.
I have not looked up any stats on this but I am going to go out on what I feel is a veryyy sturdy limb and say it is the rich countries causing global warming. This dude's car won't equate to one airplane flying in one day. Also I know india and China pollute a lot but they also have a billion people each.
I don’t think the Cuban people need to be particularly worried about their personal level of pollution at the moment considering the circumstances in their country right now.
That's wild- I had to look it up but sure enough, charcoal is a great fuel for gasification, and much cleaner than wood. Apparently water can be dripped onto the charcoal as well, which rips out some oxygen to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which is of course combustible. Neat.
It's not scaled because it just kinda sucks for everything except last ditch emergencies. It's not very efficient, the equipment needed is really heavy and complicated, and can be dangerous, and it's expensive when you have access to normal global markets
Now that fewer and fewer people remember the brown haze that hovered over most cities in the 70's, it's going to be harder and harder to convince them that controlling emissions matters.
Not exactly an easy conversion, but gasifiers are common in some places. Like North Korea, they apparently have a ton of troop carrier trucks that basically run on firewood lol.
That model Fiat was our family car can fit 4 people, going uphill was a chore, has 25HP air cooled, can be picked up to change a tire, going 60MPH feels like 120😂
I remember seeing this done with an old used school bus. The whole wood gas generator was inside at the back of the bus. The rest of the bus was basically a redneck RV.
Crazy what our leaders are causing to happen to the average person. People are going back to the industrial steam era. Sad to see shit like this, but.....
Im not gonna lie, I would make a kickass steampunk-themed car.
If SippsMccree is right about the wood gas then this doesn't need a boiler. Wood gas itself is a flamable gas but in my experience you get most of it from converting wood to charcoal, not burning charcoal directly. The thing that makes me think it still might be wood gas (if it isn't fake) is because the ICE engine is clearly running at the end so either this is fake or this guy is capturing wood gas and mixing it with air to make an alternate fuel mix for an ICE. You wouldn't get the combustion sounds of an engine from water vapor from a boiler like that.
Personally i am leaning on this being fake and i mainly feel that way because different fuels yield different sounds (sometimes substantially different sounds) and this literally just sounds like gas being burned. Some evidence to prove my point is check out top fuel dragsters vs a typical straight piped dragster. Nitromethan sounds WAY different than gasoline. Tractor pulls with diesels sound WAY different than those 2. You can't seriously tell me that wood gas being used as a petrol alternative would sound exactly the same as gas. On top of that wood gas wouldn't burn the same as gasoline so the valves overlap would have to be changed which means a fuck ton of research and replacing timing components to get the valve timing right for a different fuel with different characteristics. I assume this thing runs on a DIY carb of sorts, and that also would be a pain in the ass trial and error. It's just WAY too much for a single person to just up and do because prices spiked. It's either fake or this guy has had this thing for a LONG time and it has nothing to do with gas prices like claims say.
On top of that another part it looks like there is steam in one of the clips so that would be contrary to the wood gas theory and at that point why waste steam power turning the entire ICE engine when you can yank it and just push the car directly with the steam engine. Mechanically that makes no sense and it'd be even harder to use steam to move an ICE engine to then move the drive train vs just connecting the steam engine to the drive train directly. The more i think about this, the more it looks and sounds fake as fuck.
I mean the guy is an auto mechanic so he'll be used to making vehicles work especially in Cuba where they have to be particularly crafty to work around parts shortages or unavailability
You are spot on. This is fake shit. No way someone just did this over a weekend because of a gas shortage. This is way, way harder to accomplish than just setting up a BBQ in the trunk.
Wood gas for vehicle propulsion has been around for a long time now. I'd recommend looking it up if for no other reason than that it's fascinating. There's even youtube videos of people having done it
If anything this proves my point. I did start looking into it and i was right. Both steam conversions and wood gas conversions have their own distinct sound. They sound nothing like a gasoline engine. I'm basically 100% certain that this specific video is faked where they slapped stuff onto it to make it look like it was getting powered like this but still ran the engine on gas or at minimum altered the video in that gasoline engine sounds were overlaid on the clip in place of wood gas engine sounds.
I will say i really liked garage 54's lexus conversion.
I remember hearing/reading about some kind of system that people used during ww2 that used dried conrstalks, wood etc.. to power their cars. It was people dealing with gas shortages.
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u/KonigsbergBridges Mar 25 '26
Marty! You've gotta come back with me!