[Gasification] Re: NREL

[mmbtupr at aol.com]

                         to   Gasification List    from   Lewis L Smith
 
This thread suddenly made me recall that in December 2005, I scientist whom I have met and listened to, who is smarter than I am and who has a "tougher" degree than I do, said over the Internet that there are no commercial biomass gasification plants in the world. Dead wrong !  
 
For over three years, I have been searching the Internet for processes which we could use in Puerto Rico with Napier grass [one of the species called "elephant grass"]  and corresponding with their inventors and operators. Although I am traveling and citing from memory, I would venture to assert  that there are over 1,000 under < one mWe in India alone and several dozen > one mWE throughout the world, including some in Louisiana which have been gasifying rice husks since the early 1980's.
 
This is not the first time I have stumbled across such lack of information in the biomass-gasification community. What gives here ?  It looks like we have a systemic problem or else, the "friends of petroleum" are more widely scattered than Murphy's ex-employees !
 
Cordially. End of message.
 

 
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