My cubicle mate is a gear head. He thinks there's an old Mercedes type four cylinder Diesel engine in the first pic. Says you wouldn't need a monster engine with diesel to move an old truck like that, but his best guess about the tub is it's a mobile burning latrine. I gave him as silly a look as he gave me about a wood powered engine.

There is an engine in there. That's the part that makes the truck go.

The part smoking is a wood gasification boiler. The engine runs off of it. Easier for a backwards country like that to fuel their trucks in the middle of who knows where. Trees everywhere. Diesel, not so much.

It burns the wood, turning it into a gas and is plumbed into the engine like propane. The truck is started on gasoline and then transfers over to the gasified wood. There are u-tube videos on how to, pretty cool if you ask me. SHTF gas may be hard to find, but wood a lot easier.

Wouldn't something ran off of a boiler need to be a steam engine? How else does it work?

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Heating(not burning) wood drives off combustible gasses.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I google image search wood powered truck. This photo is from 2013 North Korea.

Those poor bastards in the back, getting smoked like that. I guess it still beats walking for miles and miles as stick thin as they all are.

Ha, I know, that smoke to the face has to suck. At least throw some weed in there to make it fun!

Wonder what those signs say?

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
^^^^^
Heating(not burning) wood drives off combustible gasses.

^^^^

Yep.

The wood is heated, releasing methane and other combustible gases, in the process the wood becomes charcoal, and then is used as wood-fire fuel to render the raw wood. That's the fuel making cycle, and as other stated, the distillation of the wood provides fuel for the engine.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:...

Wonder what those signs say?

"Lun Follest Lun!"

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Ha, I know, that smoke to the face has to suck. At least throw some weed in there to make it fun!

You know, I was wondering - if the truck runs on combustible wood gasses, is sucking up all that smoke sorta like breathing a tarry, gassified wood grain alchohol? Those may be the primo seats in the truck by North Korean standards!

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:...

Wonder what those signs say?

"Lun Follest Lun!"

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:...

Wonder what those signs say?

"Lun Follest Lun!"

That brought a solid chuckle!!

All you wanted to know about how those vehicles are running on wood

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com...1/wood-gas-cars.html

A clear indication that their fuel reserves are VERY low.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I google image search wood powered truck. This photo is from 2013 North Korea.

No, you guys got it all wrong. That’s the meal truck, bringing out the one hot meal they get a day. A bowl of steam.

It does seem like the point of a wood gas system is to contain the gas Grom the burning wood and use it as fuel....

The visible smoke comes from the charcoal burner used to heat the container of raw wood being distilled; when all the flammable gases have been driven from the wood, the resulting charcoal is used in the burner.

I believe that some Germans used similar methods during WWII because all the gasoline was used by the military.

flashguy

There's 3 carrier groups in or going to be in the region. Maybe just security for when Trump visits.

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Originally posted by PASig:
This article from the UK Daily Mail with lots of smuggled pics of the allegedly "powerful" and feared Nork Army seems to paint a picture very much like what we saw with the "vaunted" Republican Guard and Iraqi Army, that they were actually falling apart and not worth shit:

Wood-powered truck!





Ancient wood-powered trucks, troops asleep on the road and women fighters in high heels: The true face of Kim Jong-un's army revealed in photos smuggled out of North Korea

That truck wouldn't start, wood it? ( borrowed)

It might be time to take Lil Kim out

Traces of anthrax antibodies were discovered in the system of a North Korean soldier who had defected to South Korea at some point in 2017, a local South Korean television station reported Tuesday.

The soldier’s name and exact date of defection were not disclosed. But the defector is said to have been exposed to or vaccinated for anthrax, a serious bacterial disease, UPI reported, citing Channel A. They reportedly became immune to the disease before defection.

“Anthrax antibodies have been found in the North Korean soldier who defected this year,” according an unnamed South Korean official speaking to Channel A.

The news comes amid earlier reports that North Korea was beginning tests to mount anthrax onto intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

The tests were to determine if anthrax could handle the intense heat and pressure it would experience on an ICBM.

“North Korea has started experiments such as heat and pressure equipment to prevent anthrax from dying even at a high temperature of over 7,000 degrees generated at the time of ICBM's re-entry into the atmosphere,” the Japanese newspaper Asahi reported, citing an unidentified person connected to South Korean intelligence services. “In part, there is unconfirmed information that it has already succeeded in such experiments.”

Similarly, the White House released a report on Dec. 18 saying that the rogue nation was “pursuing chemical and biological weapons” that could be “delivered by missile.”

The released U.S. National Security Strategy stated that the rogue nation has “spent hundreds of millions of dollars on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that could threaten our homeland.”

North Korea denied the report, accusing the U.S. of portraying “untruths as truths” for “their aggressive greed.”

Kim Jong Un’s scientists launched North Korea's “greatest” ICBM in late November. The regime claimed it could carry a “super-heavy nuclear warhead” that could strike “the whole mainland of the U.S.” However, North Korea has set out to perfect its re-entry technology. A U.S. official told Fox News that the Hwasong-15 ICBM did not survive re-entry into the atmosphere.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...tem-report-says.html

I'd venture to say that testing positive for anthracis antibodies in a filthy shit-hole like North Korea is not at all uncommon.

On the list of things to worry about with regard to Lil Kim, this one is way down on the list.