From the website: Mr. Anton Peterka along with his team, made his '85 Yugo 45, using wood and coal for fuel. It's not a new technology, 125 years old. The process is based on incomplete combustion of wood: due to lack of air, gases are created: carbon monoxide, the main fuels, hydrogen and methane. That mixture of gases is as flammable as gasoline fumes. To get the car moving, it is necessary to "fill it up with wood". |
The earth has delt with plenty of forrest fires from lightning and its a natural thing.
Its the types of wood, oil treated, pressure treated, ect that causes the dirty burn..
I don't know if it's true, though since as you say wood is a pretty dirty fuel, as anyone who has a wood pellet stove can attest (even a new pellet stove is 2,500x dirtier than a gas furnace, a href="http://www.webcom.com/~bi/home-heating.htm>reference).