🔥 The Forgotten Fuel: 100 Years of Wood Gas Vehicles (1921–2021)

Описание: How did the world once survive without oil?

From ancient blast furnaces to World War II tanks running on wood — this is the untold story of transport gasifiers. Over the past 100 years, millions of vehicles around the globe were powered not by gasoline or diesel... but by firewood and charcoal.

This documentary traces the rise, fall, and possible comeback of wood gas technology — from the first charcoal-powered engines to Hitler’s forced conversion of Europe’s transport, to today's looming energy crisis.

🛠️ Is wood gas coming back?

👇 Chapter guide:
00:00 - Beginning
00:03 - Introduction
02:14 - 19th century: in search of cheap fuel
03:51 - The first lighting-gas engine
07:18 - Otto and his engine
12:01 - World War I: the beginning of gasifier vehicles age
13:37 - George Imbert, the father of transport gasifiers
21:04 - 1925 gasifier vehicles contest
30:04 - The first charcoal-powered airplane
30:58 - World War II
34:57 - Tanks and gasifiers
40:01 - The end of the war
41:57 - The second wave of firewood-powered vehicles
44:12 - Afterword

🎥 Voiceover, editing, script — all by‪@ALIFESTORIES‬
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