using methane as vehicle fuel
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:04 pm
i had bought the video a few years back and then discovered that it is now available for viewing for free on the internet.
about Harold Bates (interviewed by Mother Earth News in the early 1970s iirc- i have the copy somewhere) who was making his own methane and driving around with it. he was also making his own conversion kit for autos and selling those too.
then he disappeared from view. would love to find out what happened to him, details of his conversion kit, his compressor, everything.
but anyways, the video is here: http://www.nfb.ca/film/bates_car_sweet_as_a_nut/
of course there are off-the-shelf conversion kits to run cars off of natural gas, as many vehicles do run on natural gas.
and that is one of the reasons i have stayed interested in home-made biogas for so long. the tech is well known, and if one has a reasonably accessable supply of manure or algae feedstock to produce methane, it is perhaps at least as feasible to run one's vehicle on methane as it is to convert it to electricity. with the added benefit that once one is producing the gas, one can also run many if not most of one's household energy requirements from that same gas.
about Harold Bates (interviewed by Mother Earth News in the early 1970s iirc- i have the copy somewhere) who was making his own methane and driving around with it. he was also making his own conversion kit for autos and selling those too.
then he disappeared from view. would love to find out what happened to him, details of his conversion kit, his compressor, everything.
but anyways, the video is here: http://www.nfb.ca/film/bates_car_sweet_as_a_nut/
of course there are off-the-shelf conversion kits to run cars off of natural gas, as many vehicles do run on natural gas.
and that is one of the reasons i have stayed interested in home-made biogas for so long. the tech is well known, and if one has a reasonably accessable supply of manure or algae feedstock to produce methane, it is perhaps at least as feasible to run one's vehicle on methane as it is to convert it to electricity. with the added benefit that once one is producing the gas, one can also run many if not most of one's household energy requirements from that same gas.