How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work

Stuff You Should Know

• Episode: How Garbage-powered Cars Could Work
• Website: Stuff You Should Know
• Feed URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss
• Duration: 00:29:03
• Published: 2013-02-05 17:23

We’re not so far off from being able to power cars using beer and banana peels, like Doc in Back to the Future. Rather than solving the energy crisis with Mr. Fusion, though, we’ll use the centuries-old technique of creating syngas through pyrolysis.