[Gasification] Pyrolysing compost to make fuel

[Peter Singfield]

At 10:46 AM 8/3/2006 EDT, CAVM at aol.com wrote:
> 
>In a message dated 8/3/2006 9:36:49 AM Central Daylight Time,  
>kchisholm at ca.inter.net writes:
>
>It seems  to me that conversion to energy forms is fundamentally "the use of 
>last  resort" for biomass resources. If there is any alternative use for
the  
>biomass, then almost invariably, it has a higher worth.
>

It is all about ancient roman Coliseum style "democracy"

Give them good Coliseum -- give them free food -- they vote for you -- and
you have "power"

The US has good Mass Media (better than coliseum)

And for the rest -- well that is food subsidies.

Now imagine if the ancient Romans had SUV mentality and started using the
free food for fuel??

OK -- go back to the die off scenario -- the food left for only 100 deer is
used by 5 deer to drive around in their SUV!!

Sure -- ethanol is politically correct -- and as such -- is where all the
grant moneys and "TAX DEDUCTIBLES" lay -- and CAVM is -- after all -- an
accountant!!

You folks need to get far out -- then look back!!

I'd say the key solution starts with burning your SUV's first!!

Make you modern American life style "NEGOTIABLE" with "THE NATURE OF THING"
or get ready for your major die-off event!!

All this "TALK" is not leading to any kind of other "VIABLE" options!!

Well -- that's it for "Mois" -- I just found a dude in Roatan (Honduras)
that is powering his entire estate using an Onan diesel Genset -- 10 kw --
3 phase (he is an American after all!!) and has been fueling that with
cohune nut oil for the past few years!!

So I need spend some time chatting -- see appended --

I plan to suggest to him that instead of using kw's to run and electric
steam distiller unit (to make his potable water) has he considered:

A: using waste heat of his genset to do the distillation.

B: Build a large rain water cistern and sterilizing what water he needs to
drink by boiling it for ten minutes using waste heat from his genset.

Then -- I wish to know exactly how he is producing his cohune nut oil --
and what he is doing with the hard shells after -- and maybe get him
involved in the small charcoal gasifier project.

After all -- absolutely nothing is happening in this modern arena so well
represented by the people on this list -- right??

(Except to much talking about what they dream for)

Peter / Belize

*********************************************

I am by no means 
an expert, but do have a steam distiller on Roatan that we have used for 
many years, as well as one in North Carolina that we have used for more 
than 40 years, and recently began to cast about for ways to continue 
distilling water without the use of electricity, although I can now use 
cahune palm oil from our own property on  the island to run an old, 
Military Onan 10kw diesel generator, and that will be (at least for the 
time being) at least one of our methods for running our steam 
distillation plant.

(Extracted from a posting to the Hondo1 mail list)