[Gasification] Alternative energy in the nursery

[doug.williams]

Hi Richard and Colleagues,

You advise:

> Just received this announcement
>
> Western Forestry and Conservation Nursery Association, 2008 Annual
> Meeting
> June 23-25, 2008 Double Tree Hotel, Missoula, Montana
>
> Energy Efficiency and Alternative Energy in the Nursery.
>
> Included is a paper by Tom Jopson, Wood gasifier as a source of heat
> and other papers dealing with energy issues,  propagation of forest
> and native plants.
>
> www.westernforestry.org

As Tom Jopson has now identified himself regarding this project, I can now 
say this is the Project shown on the Fluidyne Archive 
www.fluidynenz.250x.com  under "Fluidyne in California". The project is now 
ready to proceed to a new level of activity, and will provide answers to 
some important questions and issues, needed to support widespread use to 
impliment commercial gasification.

I have just returned from Chile and just catching up on the mail back- log, 
but will add a set of photos on the Fluidyne Archive shortly, of the 100 kWe 
(380 kWt) gasifier just built and tested in Chile. This trip coinsided with 
the huge increases in the cost of oil and gasious fuels, and the 
implications for many manufacturing facilities is serious, as process heat 
consumption cannot be maintained at the same scale without fossil fuels. The 
messages are clear, but solutions need more than lip service to impliment, 
if economic activity is to be rescued, albeit at a lower level during the 
transition to biomass energies.

Doug Williams,
Fluidyne.