[Gasification] Pelton and Turgo runners.

[Peter Singfield]

At 07:57 PM 2/4/2007 -0800, barclay at shasta.com wrote: 
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Hi   I noticed your comment on Pelton runners and using  low pressure gas
to drive them.  I have been considering using a Turgo runner to  capture
the waste heat ==>steam==>turgo==>genset from my charcoal  kilns.  I
produce about 5000 cubic feet of gas per ton of wood, which most  of is
used to force the reaction to completion.  The stack gas does get to  about
1200*F.  Any ideas would be most welcome.  David Green
www.customcharcoal.com
American Tree  Farmer 
>>

If you can afford the intitial costs -- get an ORMAT unit!!

Right now it is next to impossible to roll our own -- and any other means
becomes a bottomless pit of "expenses" --

You just need contact ORMAT with your waste heat figures and they will
quote you an entire system for it.

To bad the price of energy is held to such articifically low rates --
otherwise many more people could then afford to recuperate waste heat to
energy - -and we could solve some part of our energy problems.

But right now -- though the technology most definitly does exist to do just
that -- the financial incentives are lacking.

"They" should be subsidizing waste heat recovery -- not ethanol from corn!!

Instead -- they trade food for more energy to put into that waste heat!!

Has greater insanity ever existed??

Peter