[Gasification] Charcoal Gasifier No 2.

[Harmon Seaver]

jerome ssengonzi wrote:
> 
> <<< please don `t consider this normal. Normal is a newbuilt system you buy 
> in a shpo and have installed by a professional and with 2 years of 
> guarantee.If you count all the h of the selfmakers (like I am), it even 
> looks worse. 

   Not as far as I'm concerned. I'd never consider buy a turnkey system
-- unless I won the lotto first, and then I'd probably not bother. No,
on the contrary, I'm sure the vast majority of small producers will roll
their own.
   Time -- hours spent -- is meaningless, if I can make a living from
it. What else do I have to do? And very soon now there will be millions
of people with nothing much to do but to try to figure out someway to
make a little money.

> Automotive derivated engines will run for ? 4000 h, 6000 ? Perhaps even 1 
> year 24/7 ? I doubt it ! Count it all !
> 
   So you rebuild an engine or two every year. So what? Rebuilds don't
take long or even cost much when you do them yourself.


> 
>>> For another, small scale power is very costly to produce per
>>> kw-hr. For still another reason, the Utilities pay very little for the
>>> power.
>> Actually they pay quite well for the power. Whatever the retail rate
>> they charge their customers is what they have to pay you for whatever
>> you produce. As long as it's from a renewable fuel. At least that's the
>> way it is in most states in the US where they have net metering laws.
>> States have different caps on how much you can produce and get the
>> retail rate -- in WI here is was 20KWH 24/7 but is changing to 40KWH
> 
> <<< 20 kwh in 24 h mean 0.83 kW.
> What are we talking about ?
> 

   It means a 20kw generator running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Getting the owner $18,693.84 a year (at our current rate of $0.10670 @
kwh) plus free heat for the house, garage, and greenhouse (which for our
house in town is usually at least $400 @ month in Winter) and plus could
use the heat in Summer to run a gas-absorbtion refrigeration
water-chiller to cool the house, plus also the CO2 in the exhaust enrich
the greenhouse air. Plus plenty of spare motive power to run other
things at the same time like hydraulic pumps, water pumps, etc.


-- 
Harmon Seaver