Instead of using a syngas generator, burning all the wood, leaving just ashes, a pyrolysis reactor should be used. A pyrolysis reactor leaves about 75% of the wood energy to engine power, but leaves the char unburned. This char can be used as biochar, a soil amendment that permanently remove carbon from the air, improves plant growth and stays there for thousands of year, since char is in practice stable in soil temperatures.

Thus, using such a hybrid car for transport would constantly reduce the carbon dioxide content of the air, more the more you drive!

FG

Not sure this will answer your question but as I understand the tax code – tax incentives are provided to companies who manufacture products outside the U.S. There are also trillions of dollars sitting in overseas accounts [some as the result of the tax code] and nothing in the stimulus has changed this tax benefit that I am aware of. Of course I haven’t read the whole 12,000 pages of the stimulus package either LOL

Historically I believe this all started in the late 80’s or early 90’s when we were all told that it was o.k. for us to become a society of consumers and not manufacturers. Our exports were at the time almost enough to level the playing field. I also think part of the reason was that a lot of people didn’t want all that dirty manufacturing stuff around. Even today just try and get a manufacture plant built in the U.S. If my memory hasn’t completely left me I believe there was a small token effort in 2008 or early 2009 to change some of the tax code to bring home some of the trillions of dollars held in foreign banks but the effort died in committee and I am sure you can guess why LOL

p.s. and yes the use of caps to level the energy profile of hybrids is an excellent idea. They can be charged and discharged almost instantaneously.

Have a great day
tomgarven

In case you did not notice, the inventor is from Barcelona, not the US. Cheers.

What is it about this “new” idea that is not being done?

1. Why are we (American inventors, manufacturers, etc.) exporting our talent, ideas and futures instead of producing product here? Ford has announced 2 products that we need and also announced that neither of them will be here! First a small high-efficiency diesel and second a PHEV (?) Escape.

2. When the Stimulus(?) bill was drafted it originally contained a provision/requirement that Stimulus projects use/employ American parts. materials and labor. This was objected to bu the rest of the world. Yesterday China released their declaration, within China, that they required Chinese projects/buyers to buy Chinese! What is the difference – other than being obviously two-faced? (China, not us, or maybe us too?)

We can not borrow our way to prosperity. Neither can we get there on “Service Economy” like we have been told we are doing (then outsource those services also!) It is time we woke up and started seriously recovering our manufacturing base that was once the shining star of the industrial world.