Jan 6 2009ZOMG, Just Like In Back To The Future!: Modify Your Car To Run On Garbage
Remember how Doc Brown had modded the Delorean in Back To The Future II to run on garbage? Well now you can do the same -- and you don't even need a Delorean (although that would help with style points, see picture above)! All you need is to throw a gasifier up in your whip.
Gasification is the use of heat to transform 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.
ZOMG, it works for flamethrowers too!?! *HONK HONK -- WHOOSH!* Best commute ever! Unfortunately, I found out the hard way the unit DOES NOT operate on trailer trash. They stole my spinning hubcaps :(
Add a Mr. Fusion to your car to let it run on garbage [dvice]
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Reader Comments
1. first - January 6, 2009 10:25 AM
First
2. known - January 6, 2009 10:27 AM
Too bad it's not mounted on a Delorean, I'd wear a M.J.F mask & drive around town with a crazy professor named 'Doc' on board.
God why are so many people bent on saying FIRST all the time, it's so ghey
3. Melodizzle - January 6, 2009 10:28 AM
second!
And i swear that's my dad driving my car.
4. Timbo - January 6, 2009 10:41 AM
That looks....cool...
Like an old beater with a rusted trashcan in place of a trunk kinda cool
5. first - January 6, 2009 10:46 AM
Saying first just makes me feel very good and above all of you inferior weaklings.
6. known - January 6, 2009 10:59 AM
you + saying first & feeling above everyone else = total gheyness conqueror
The winner is you
7. Boing - January 6, 2009 11:05 AM
My question is what fuels the gasification process? The article says it uses heat to transform the biomass into fuel. Where does said heat come from??
8. gizmoduck - January 6, 2009 11:09 AM
@5
you sound very familiar.
but a car running on garbage... i really don't know how i feel about that.
does it depend on what kind of garage? do it have to be your own garbage?
all in all, i prefer driving my monster truck over everything and demolishing all in my path. like a true badass
immortal jellyfish better watch out
9. crazygeek - January 6, 2009 12:26 PM
Are Spam Artist and Daisy the same person? If not, you guys could hook up and have a happy FAKE relationship with happy FAKE children and all the FAKE crap you could ever want in a relationship! :) Anyway, cars running a trash is not a new idea. I have a friend who has driven his truck on cheese puffs and cheerwine for years!
10. Daisy - January 6, 2009 12:44 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max modded his moped to run on trash. He picked up Baja to go to the Del Tacos and get some bacon flavored ice cream. They spied Pat Sajack on the way into the store so they hid the moped in a cardboard box, because Pat is a notorious moped thief.
Later they went back to Baja's house and drank red bull and played xbox.
11. KLanD - January 6, 2009 12:48 PM
Meh, doesn't really matter. These guys and their "gasification" process will be dead and buried within a year.
12. Spam Artist - January 6, 2009 12:57 PM
FAKE!!!!
This a complete photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene from the movie Tender Dracula where Dracula's resurrected man-servant decides that chopping dead wood is murder as well as desecration of a (wooden) body. He makes a five thousand mile march to the South Eastern tip of Russia and halloos across the water to Japan.
A ghost ship overhears his call, and picks him up for some free spirited rum drinking, laughing for hours at their own triple pun.
13. crazygeek - January 6, 2009 1:04 PM
My God - Spam Artist and Daisy are either the same person or they live on the opposite side of the same dumpster behind the library where then can get free internet access for 15 minutes at a time. I need to still comment on the post - so maybe trash car is what takes Spam Artist and Daisy to their jobs and McDonalds and Wal-Mart...respectively.
14. Joel - January 6, 2009 1:54 PM
LMAO ...... I followed the links to the video, you have a guy with a middle eastern accent driving a car around with this big cannister in the back, I'm supprised with the dumb sh*t police we have today that didn't end in a hail of bullets.
15. guate6 - January 6, 2009 2:33 PM
ZOMG, that's awesome!
16. guate6 - January 6, 2009 2:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyazgRBtq8
17. Thumperchica - January 6, 2009 2:35 PM
So it runs on GM vehicles?
18. tfleenor - January 6, 2009 3:46 PM
The Delorean never RAN on garbage - the Mr. Fusion only powered the Flutz Capacitor and eliminated the need for Plutonium... thus Doc was able to stop running from the Libyans and start getting busy making lots of little time-children to pollute the space-time continuum.
... I'm disappointed.
19. crazygeek - January 6, 2009 7:02 PM
@18 - And gleaning from your vast wisdom of Back to the Future part II - you're not only disappointed, but very lonely as well.
20. Tea Head - January 7, 2009 3:21 AM
holy shit htat is awesome!
21. first - January 7, 2009 7:16 AM
Whoever makes a pointless photoshop comment about this is super GAY!
22. Dr. Death - January 11, 2009 4:12 AM
now i want one that can run on my shit