[Gasification] Biomass Gasification at the "Chin-dia" price

[doug.williams]

Peter,

Does this mean you forgive us for our sins,  seeking to perfect a clunking 
technology from the past?

> OK - -what is happening on global level with partial combustion 
> Gasifiers??
>
> Well -- a lot -- but just not around this area of this planet!!

Now you discover that a lot of effort is going in to adapt this technology 
to pick up it's role as a sustainable energy source, and very adaptable 
chemical feed stock. You can write a book on what isn't right about all we 
do on this forum, but you can write volumes on believing all you read about 
technology, shopping the internet. Your gasification discoveries from 
isolation are only new to people who are not really involved.  There is a 
bigger picture to gasification, but you must connect all the dots to fill in 
the colours, or you see only the outline.

India and China are making big strides towards developing appropriate 
gasification, but there are equally big problems yet to be resolved, which 
at the moment uses cheap labour, and ignores toxic waste cleaning water 
disposal. I doubt if  Thomas Friedman's gasification advisors told him about 
that part of their successes, but they are trying, because old fashioned 
gasification still has plenty to offer if you need it. You continuously 
indicate you do not think the old stuff is any good, so what's the hurry to 
find the next fantastic form of gasification that most people have no chance 
to build or even purchase?

We would hear more from India if they were not so hindered by their internet 
connections, and they being forced to download copious OT Subjects.

Doug Williams.