[Gasification] Researching Charcoal gasifier power plants

[Peter Singfield]

At 01:50 PM 2/2/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>Peter,
>
>Why don't you try these guys.  They have been doing two stage gasification 
>since 1989.
>
>http://www.mek.dtu.dk/English/Research/Feature_Articles/The_Viking_Two_stag
e_Gasifier.aspx
>
>Art
>
Cute Art!!

But for the big boys only. (with ever so deep pockets to!!)

It is interesting to see concepts that were pioneered on this list so many
years ago finally being applied.

Remember back "when" -- Arnt and I did the math modeling to see if
sufficient energy existed in waste heat (from both cooling the producer gas
and engine waste heat) --  to pyrolize green fuel in a continuous process??

Well -- these guys seem to be proving that can be done!!

In those early gas list days -- the "Teacher's Pet" was fluidized bed
gasifiers -- which were supposed to finally conquer the biomass question --
for once and for all times.

And I being that voice in the back shouting -- are you all nuts or what!!

Well -- time sure did some interesting twists and turns ---

What fortunes were wasted going down that dead end branch in the road which
ended up discrediting the entire industry -- pretty well right to this day!!

Huge economic fiascos -- one right behind the other -- wham-bam -- 

Maybe a billion or more total thrown clean away!! Now rusting in great
junks heaps all about our planet.

Simply because they were that proverbial plumber's nightmare!

Hope we can learn from past misdirections -- eh??

For my part -- small to micro is still beautiful -- and screw all the rest.

I have a feeling high tech centralized- - over specialized -- existence is
soon to go the same way the dinosaurs went -- way back "when" ---

Or -- as I can put it -- dinosaurs to dinosaurs -- Dust to Dust!!

Peter/Belize