[Gasification] Pyrolysing compost to make fuel

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Roger, the underlying issue is to make fuel from cellulose material.   
Neither standard fermentation to alcohol nor methane production via anaerobic  
digestion work well with high solids and high cellulose materials.  Or am I  wrong?
 
Neal
 
In a message dated 8/3/2006 8:34:55 AM Central Daylight Time,  
rsamson at reap-canada.com writes:

They  would be wiser to make biogas out of farm derived material and
recovering  the lignin fraction as a stable organic matter soil amendment.
Biogas is a  cheaper and more sustainable option. Mining soils to produce
sustainable  energy is a pretty poor trade off.

Germany now has 2700 biogas systems  running on manure and energy crops. I
don't understand how the US is so  backwards to keep putting all their eggs
in the liquid fuels from biomass  basket. It creates the worst fuel cycles
and needs the most subsidies.  

Here is a presentation on the german biogas systems that was given  recently
in Canada: 

>  http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/engineer/facts/bg_pres4.pdf