[Gasification] Alternative energy in the nursery

[BillOhio]

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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:51 PM, doug.williams <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
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