[Gasification] Energy Crisis?

[David G. LeVine]

At 10:36 PM 4/30/2007, you wrote:
>Look -- your house is on fire -- can't you smell the smoke??
>
>This is major belt tightening time -- forget trying to find alternatives to
>maintain a to rich status quo -- wake up -- smell the smoke!!

There are always alternatives, some are just more unpalatable.

For instance, if the US were to stop all aid, it could erase its 
debt.  If the US were to kill every man, woman and child in third 
world countries and Muslim countries, it could reduce the world 
population load to a sustainable level.

Are these reasonable options?  Hell no.

Would they work?

Yes.

If the US were to make illegal immigration punishable by death, and 
enforce it, it would eliminate illegal immigrants a thing of the 
past.  Would this be a good thing?

There are alternatives, but they may be worse than the current 
problems.  All of the above ARE worse than the current problems.

Mobile gasification is an inefficient way to generate energy, 
stationary pyrolysis is a better choice when driven by 
gasifiers.  The volume doesn't matter and the mass don't matter if 
the physical plant are not in the vehicle, only storage.  With the 
nitrogen dilution being out of the picture, the stored energy becomes 
more efficient in a hurry, the pyrolyzed material becomes fuel for 
the gasifier.

Would this be a viable way to resolve the energy needs?  I think not 
because the needed biomass (for the total world population) would 
strip the planet bare in a short time.  Does this make sense for some 
of the population?  Absolutely.

Why subscribe to this list believing as I do?  It is obvious that one 
good technology will not eliminate this mess, but it is also obvious 
that each good one helps.

David G. LeVine
Nashua, NH  03060