[Gasification] Charcoal Gasifier No 2.

[Walt Patrick]

At 06:16 AM 7/26/2007, Harmon wrote:
>    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.

         Here in Washington state, which has gone a long way towards 
encouraging the development of renewable energy, the grid-tie rules 
allow you to run your meter backwards and "store up energy" for use 
during the winter, but then the meter is "zeroed" on the first of 
April--any surplus put on the grid is forgotten. In addition, we 
still have to pay for our meter and our account (about $20/month), so 
even if when we generate all the power we consume, we'll still be 
paying the electric coop $240/ year for the connection to the grid.

         Under no circumstances will be local power company be paying 
us any funds. That's not a complaint, just a notation that we're not 
going to be able to "make a good living feeding power to the grid" at 
least not in Washington state.

Walt








> > 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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