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Add a Mr. Fusion to your car to let it run on garbage
In Back to the Future, Part II, Doc Brown figures out a way to run his time traveling Delorean on regular garbage thanks to "Mr. Fusion." What an awesome idea. And now, one that you can make a reality by building your own Mr. Fusion on your car. And you don't even need to be a mad scientist to do it. The Mr. Fusion of today is called a gasifier, and it allows you to use, yes, gasification to run your car.
Gasification is the use of heat to tranform solid biomass, or other carbonaceous solids, into a synthetic "natural gas like" flammable fuel. Through gasification, we can convert nearly any solid dry organic matter into a clean burning, carbon neutral, gaseous fuel. Whether starting with wood chips or walnut shells, construction debris or agricultural waste, the end product is a flexible gaseous fuel you can burn in your internal combustion engine, cooking stove, furnace or flamethrower. Or in this case, your DeLorean. OK, how about a Honda Accord?Want to add a gasifier to your car? Instructables has the instructions, if you're feeling industrious.
Via Instructables
By Doc Watson at 5:38 PM ON 01/05/09
Finally! I can power my car!
By yo at 10:05 AM ON 01/06/09
why not use this to power other things...like a house or city? unless it doesn't produce the needed 1.21 gigawatts of power to travel through time.
By Daisy at 10:35 AM ON 01/06/09
FAKE!!!!
This is a total photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadows are all wrong.
This is just like the scene in the movie Never Back Down where Baja transforms into a giant Mr Coffee and mounts herself on Max's car. Max shrinks himself down and proceeds to climb inside her. After just a few minutes, Max hallucinates that's he's traveling through time even though they really never leave Max's backyard.
By Matt S.J. at 10:54 AM ON 01/06/09
Re: FAKE comment by DAISY
Dear idiot, please click the "via instructables" link below the story to watch a video of the very real Mr. Fusion gasifier in action.
Also, your knowledge of Photoshop/Reality is poor at best.
F-
See me after class.
By Ah hA at 1:36 PM ON 01/06/09
Dear Mr Matt S.J.- consider yourself one of the lovely tools to get trolled by the illustrious Daisy.
Daisy FTW.
By The Bobs at 6:59 PM ON 01/06/09
Yes Matt you can keep that F- since you haven't a clue. I recommend schooling before attempting to educate.
By hm.... at 9:52 AM ON 01/07/09
if you are going to call it fake, you wouldn't need to blame photoshop and shadows that aren't correct(even when they are not all wrong) all you need to say is that the car is driving with its engine running on regular gas and that the Mr. Fusion is just there. OR you could go build it yourself and see that it DOES work as shown in the photo and on the Instructables site.
the lesson here is:
don't call out "fakes" because your to lazy to click a link and read about how it can be made to work.
By The Bobs at 10:48 AM ON 01/07/09
Dear 'HM' please acknowledge the information given by 'AH HA' regarding Daisy posts, then try to understand where you stand. The lesson here is: you're also a tool.
By Steve F. Canyon (hisself) at 1:07 PM ON 01/11/09
Given the energy ratio (roughly 1/20th) of garbage over gas it still makes more sense to do the gasification offboard and then use a storage tank just like powering the car off of petroleum, CNG or some form of alcohol. (think about how clunky it would be to haul a gasoline refinery around in the trunk of your car!) Where this would shine is if it were used in a fixed point generator to make electricity. This tech was fairly well developed and stable by the end of WWII in Europe and it has been said that the average layman could start up and maintain one in a lorry (truck) by the end of the war. Coupled with a Stirling converter Generator/water heater, (combined units are already commercially available for CNG in Europe) you could conceivably convert household garbage into energy and hot water sufficient to eliminate most if not all of your electric bill. Rather than some boondoggle tax like cap and trade on carbon which is nothing more than yet another tired excuse for higher taxes and more government, how about developing a micro-economy based on selling compostable garbage and generating electricity...Oooopppss
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