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Well one mile per pound!! Wow!! I wonder if the car heater has a nice FLAME
! LOL
Should be nice and warm in the winter time!! Does it take 20 mins to start up???
So if a 40 lb bag of wood pellets is $4.00 that is .10 cents per mile !!
Gas at $3.50 per gallon for say 25 mpg car is 14 cents per mile!!
Wood pellet car burns way to speed record
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Making use of sawdust before it piles as waste at landfills, a local alternative energy advocate combusts wood pellets in a car that has established a world speed record.
Robert "Chip" Beam said he traveled last month from his South Williamsport home to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah where his two-door sedan was clocked at just under 48 mph, its top speed on the mile-long course.
Recordkeepers still are searching for words to describe the feat accomplished without using gasoline, as Beam said his 1989 Mercury Cougar XR7 is completely powered by burning wood pellets manufactured from timber debris often collected at furniture-crafting workshops.
"There's no category for a wood-powered car," Beam said of the different vehicle speed records recorded at the World of Speed 2010 event in Utah.
Now that a record's been established, Beam hopes it's challenged by himself or someone else at next year's competition.
"This year, we set the record. Next year, we're hoping to break the record," Beam said of the accomplishment achieved with the rear trunk combustion system he and his business partner Larry Shilling of Alfred, N.Y., constructed in just a few weekends for their Beaver Energy company.
The company, according to Beam, strives to research and develop carbon neutral energy resources as an alternative to foreign oil dependence.
Similar vehicles could be powered on pellets from grass shavings or other debris, according to Beam.
The car he took to Utah included sponsorship assistance from the local Larson Design Group, where Beam is employed as a computer aided design and drafting professional.
He said his wood-powered car is registered, insured and licensed to drive on streets and highways, as he said he's driven it from mid-state New York to here for a cost about the same as buying gasoline.
Beam said his special car has made the 120-mile trip from Alfred, N.Y., to Williamsport for just under $20 in wood fuel costs.
Explaining his fuel mileage is about "a mile a pound," Beam said a 2,000-pound package of wood pellets can be purchased for anywhere between $200-$300.
The cost could be even cheaper if people are willing to make their own pellets with a pelletizer, which Beam said can be purchased for about $1,300.
"Not real expensive," he said.
Well one mile per pound!! Wow!! I wonder if the car heater has a nice FLAME
! LOLShould be nice and warm in the winter time!! Does it take 20 mins to start up???
So if a 40 lb bag of wood pellets is $4.00 that is .10 cents per mile !!
Gas at $3.50 per gallon for say 25 mpg car is 14 cents per mile!!
Wood pellet car burns way to speed record
(broken link removed to http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/555087/Wood-pellet-car-burns-way-to-speed-record.html?nav=5011)
Making use of sawdust before it piles as waste at landfills, a local alternative energy advocate combusts wood pellets in a car that has established a world speed record.
Robert "Chip" Beam said he traveled last month from his South Williamsport home to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah where his two-door sedan was clocked at just under 48 mph, its top speed on the mile-long course.
Recordkeepers still are searching for words to describe the feat accomplished without using gasoline, as Beam said his 1989 Mercury Cougar XR7 is completely powered by burning wood pellets manufactured from timber debris often collected at furniture-crafting workshops.
"There's no category for a wood-powered car," Beam said of the different vehicle speed records recorded at the World of Speed 2010 event in Utah.
Now that a record's been established, Beam hopes it's challenged by himself or someone else at next year's competition.
"This year, we set the record. Next year, we're hoping to break the record," Beam said of the accomplishment achieved with the rear trunk combustion system he and his business partner Larry Shilling of Alfred, N.Y., constructed in just a few weekends for their Beaver Energy company.
The company, according to Beam, strives to research and develop carbon neutral energy resources as an alternative to foreign oil dependence.
Similar vehicles could be powered on pellets from grass shavings or other debris, according to Beam.
The car he took to Utah included sponsorship assistance from the local Larson Design Group, where Beam is employed as a computer aided design and drafting professional.
He said his wood-powered car is registered, insured and licensed to drive on streets and highways, as he said he's driven it from mid-state New York to here for a cost about the same as buying gasoline.
Beam said his special car has made the 120-mile trip from Alfred, N.Y., to Williamsport for just under $20 in wood fuel costs.
Explaining his fuel mileage is about "a mile a pound," Beam said a 2,000-pound package of wood pellets can be purchased for anywhere between $200-$300.
The cost could be even cheaper if people are willing to make their own pellets with a pelletizer, which Beam said can be purchased for about $1,300.
"Not real expensive," he said.
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