[Gasification] politicization of technology

[Paul Francesco]

Many here in the u.S. of A will remember the BWCA (Boundary Waters Canoe 
Area) (Minn.) massive wind fall timber blow down, it was estimated that 
it would take a constant bumper to bumper convoy of logging semi 
trailers 3 year to remove the wind blown timber fall from the area. 
Proposals to buy at market prices these downed trees where many. 
Environmentalists kept these fallen trees tied up in litigation and the 
Forest Service bowed gracefully to them and sat on their collective 
hands.  Warnings where put out of the extreme fire hazards that attended 
the dry timber and FEMA set up emergency response centers as far away as 
Duluth "awaiting the almost inevitable" fires that could send heat and 
ash 12 miles up and some 150 miles out causing massive evacuations Etc.

    Question:  If this obvious recover or waste situation could be 
deliberately cause to go to waste (at great expense), where is the 
priority of the government some still believe to be By the People, Of 
the People, and For the People? Until energy enthusiasts/innovators 
realize that private distributive power (means of production) is 
targeted to the small private land owner as a means of self sufficiency 
and autonomy and developed without government subsidy (and the 
regulation that will come with it) then energy is doomed to remain 
another link in the economic chain shackling us as slaves for the gain 
of the political puppeteers. 

    Advancement in energy independence cannot depend on those who want 
to retain power in the huge beaurocracies that now dictate every action 
of the once free, and confiscate the wealth of the small entrepreneurs.  
Now is an unprecedented opportunity to literally change the POWER 
structure of nation and of the planet. To put into the hands of private 
people and small local groups power that can truly spell the end of the 
NEW WORLD ORDER and the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.  Stop looking at what 
government is doing and funding. they will never give up the reigns of 
power. Power is never granted away, it is stolen from those who can no 
longer be trusted with it.  Those working in scales which can only 
benefit centralized production are willing dupes and deserved to be 
slaves of those that control the centralized production (so complain all 
you want, it will not change). Those that concentrate on individual 
proactive self-sufficient scales (house, farm, small land holding, small 
group clusters) should not look for handouts, but should be wary of 
attack knowing that they are the new revolutionaries striving for 
freedom in an enslaved world.

God speed.
John Paul

linvent at aol.com wrote:

>All of the objectives listed are indeed noble. The Burlington Vermont 
>gasification project probably had some of the same noble objectives but 
>was politicized out of an economic potential operation. The requirement 
>of having nothing but Vermont fuel raised the price of the fuel. 
>Apparently delivery of fuel to the site by rail was also limited. Other 
>political factors were added to the project.
>
>The United States Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management both 
>would put plans on the table for improved forest management and would 
>invite the local or national environmental representative groups to 
>comment and they wouldn't and then when the plan was approved, they 
>would sue, basically to get a settlement from the agency so that their 
>attorney fees would be paid handsomely and they may put some money in 
>their general fund coffers. With this type of action, the forests 
>suffered massive damage from accumulation of forest residues which 
>caused  difficult forest fires which were much worse than they would 
>have been if the management programs could be implemented. There are 
>millions of acres of "wilderness" forests in the US where no more than 
>a shovel can be brought into them which are tinderboxes from the very 
>nature of the lack of proper management verboten by Congressional 
>action. Who knows what the environmental groups will do if forests 
>become harvested in some scale?
>
>The US DOE has recently announced the award of a cooperative research 
>grant with Chevron for developing bio-diesel from algae. There are 22 
>algae operations that I am aware of which are in need of this type of 
>funding, some may be close to commercial operation and have not 
>received DOE funding. It only reflects the political nature of the US 
>Gov't entities to award this type of arrangement. As far as I know, 
>none of the hydrogen production projects DOE has funded are with 
>gasification, the single potential source of inexpensive hydrogen.
>
>We recently submitted an unsolicited proposal to the DOE for a variety 
>of gasification related activities and although the proposal was 
>supposed to be submitted to several DOE divisions, only one made any 
>comment only to say that they had issued a solicitation which closed 
>several months ago, but our point was that the solicitation only 
>applied to biomass and our variety of fuels was much broader including 
>hydrogen and transportation fuels development.
>
>The name of the game is politics, not technology. Molten Metals 
>received $98mm from DOE without any technical value and filed 
>bankruptcy shortly after receiving the largest amount of the money. 
>Congressional investigation was not very complete as Gore was the main 
>influence in getting the funds awarded and it never came to his 
>doorstep.
>
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