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I saw some of these in use while visiting DPR Korea. We weren't up close, but the government tour guide confirmed that they were wood-burning trucks. Sadly I was not allowed to photograph the trucks. Like the article mentions, deforestation is an issue they can cause, something Korea suffers from greatly.


>Like the article mentions, deforestation is an issue they can cause, something Korea suffers from greatly.

To be fair, that is something that almost every single developing nation in the history of human kind has suffered from greatly.


When resources were scarce during WW II in Germany there were various kinds of wood gas vehicles. Here is a video of a 1942 tractor:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMVwbjp514o


From what I heard, it was the same in France, with various vehicles converted to use wood gas too.




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