[Gasification] Nuclear and Biomass Electric Generation

[Peter Singfield]

At 09:39 AM 5/2/2007 -0700, Tom Miles wrote:
>Our policy seems to be to promote gasification for
>liquid fuels. In think that power generation could be used to build the
>systems and experience needed for eventual liquid fuels production.    
>
>Tom    

As discussed in the past -- it would be better to use gasifiers running on
waste for fuels as stationary power plants thus freeing up the more
"portable" fuels --

EG -- natural gas is far more practical to use as a base to make portable
(liquid" fuels than producer gas is.

Actually -- I believe most of the methanol produced or used in the US come
from natural gas still??

So -- instead of using natural gas as fuel for electric power plants -- use
producer gas -- and with the natural gas so saved -- make methanol -- 

The Vermont gasifier/boiler is a fine such example.

The archives are full of that story -- at least the archives on my hard drive.

In practice -- producer gas to electric power route is mostly done in
thermal power plant configurations.

Vermont power is gasifier to producer gas to boiler -- steam -- steam
turbines -- electric power.

Thermal gasifiers are a much more real solution that gasifiers to make
product clean and cool enough to fuel a reciprocating engine.

Peter / Belize