[Gasification] Charcoal Gasifier No 2.

[Energies Naturals]

Dear Harmon,
US is not the world!
the retail rate is in most cases not much money for a small co-generator. We 
have about 12- 18 ? cents per kWh in some parts of old Europe and everything 
below that is normally not considered cost effective.
And that of course only if you can make good use of the heat value.
Rolf
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harmon Seaver" <hseaver at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification" 
<gasification at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Charcoal Gasifier No 2.


> Energies Naturals wrote:
>> Grid feed is not a universal anwer.
>> Only where it is heavily subsidized you can operate a plant 
>> successfully.
>
>   That's not true in much of the US. Net metering laws mandate that
> small producers get paid the retail rate -- the electric meter just
> turns backwards. Small producers can make a good living feeding power to
> the grid.
>
>
>> Remember it takes 1 kg of goog biomass to produce 1 kwh of  electricity 
>> (in
>> large facilities!)
>
>    But if you have lots of biomass which you can produce cheaply, and
> little other market you can turn it into electricity and make good money.
>
>
>> The thermal "waste" is way more valuable.
>
> Not if you have to transport it.
>
>> Only grid feed is linear thinking, what we need is more diversity, imho.
>> Rolf
>
>   The point of the net metering laws is promote a more diverse power
> source.
>
> -- 
> Harmon Seaver
>
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