[Gasification] Fast-Growing Biomass

Fri Apr 18 16:32:52 CDT 2008

Dear friends, really this is the element critic for food and fuels. United Nations is liar when says against biofuels. It price grows join with oil . China are now an important buyer of all raw materials but it is not bad . This is very good because it grows food crops prices helping rural producers. With water using "Hydroponia" system you can obtain 6.400 metric tons in an hectare for year. Believe it or not.
"Watercorn" gives green forage over an carpet of sugar cane bagasse or switchgrass cropping every 21 days. Is sowed 2 Kg /square meter of corn multiplying by ten its weight watering four times a day using "micronutrients".
Recently discover of fast pyrolysis by Amherst University and Madison University gives an shortest way to biogasoline. We dont need to debate food/fuel. Only about water. Native plants as "cattail" gives food in his flower, cellulosae for cattle in leaves and starch for industry in roots. I suspect about many others native plants giving more foods. UN are wrong.
Regards, Ben

Jeff Davis <jeff0124 at velocity.net> escribió: Hi Mark,

I plan on writing a small report when I can fit it in.

No I did not dry the algae.

No time to compare drying rates.

I just kept adding water until the agglomeration phase seems to appear.

Jeff

> Jeff,
>
> How wet do you think these balls were? Did you try to dry the algae at all
> before you mixed it?
>
> Are you comparing the drying rate to newsprint?
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org
> [mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Davis
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:22 PM
> To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Fast-Growing Biomass
>
> Andy and Jim,
>
> My pond doesn't have much algae but I was able to rake up enough to roll
> some sawdust/algae-binder fireballs. Can't wait for them to dry so that I
> can see if the algae really does work as a binder.
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>>
>> Howdy Jim, REPP (gasification) listers,
>>
>>   Thank you for the invitation for the workshop on algae. I cannot
>> attend
>> because I live many miles away from the shipyard.
>>
>>    I understand algae is the fastest growing biomass of any.  Trees may
>> be
>> the slowest-growing.
>> Much CO2 is being absorbed by algae mass in Lake Michigan today. When I
>> was a child I saw no such growth in the lake.
>>
>>   When Captain Cousteau dived on the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, in
>> cold Lake Superior, he seemed angry that there were no plants and
>> animals to photograph. He deemed the Great Lakes  "sterile". This was
>> the natural state of the ecosystem in those days.
>>
>>   Excess phosphate, zebra mussels, and late-summer warm water may have
>> combined to make the lake a giant bioreactor. I am finding masses of
>> algae on the shores of the little finger of the mitten large enough to
>> fill big barns if baled. Jeff Davis would begin thinking hard if he saw
>> these. This area of the lake has strong currents and very cold
>> surface-water most of the year.
>>
>>   Algae has always been part of the system. We can guess why the waters
>> west of the Door Peninsula is called Green Bay.
>>
>>   Please keep us informed on what you learn from Dr. Friendly.
>>
>> Andrew Schofield
>> Great Lakes Renewable Fuel Systems
>>

-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA

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