[Gasification] Rice hulls. Carbon and Silica both valuable.

[Ken Calvert]

Heh you guys arguing about silica and char, and peak oil for that matter.
There is a lot more to it than meets your eyes!  I say the 3rd world has got 
us licked!
Those Philippino rice hulls stoves produce a clean smokeless flame with 
nothing to
irritate the eyes and breathing of women  whom we hope will no longer die of 
emphysema
in smokey huts.  What they also do is discharge a half half silica/carbon 
char which is a number one fertiliser!
No it doesn't have any nitrogen phosphate or potash, but it is a very good 
cation exchange medium.
That means that it latches onto all the minerals that would otherwise get 
leached out of impoverished wornout soils
and holds onto everything untill the plant roots can take it up.   Nothing 
is wasted from those ricehull stoves.
Twobits from an old timer whose been there done that!  Ken Calvert.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenn Johnsen" <kennj at webspeed.dk>
To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification" 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Proven oil reserves are not a measure 
offuturesupply of world petroleum. It is a well known fallacyin thepetroleum 
industry to treat them in this way,and it has had serious political 
consequences.


>
> Den 03/03/2008 kl. 10.50 skrev MMBTUPR at aol.com:
>
>>          from          Lewis L Smith
>>
>> He first he said that peak oil is "rubbish", with no explanation
>> other than a
>> link.
>
>
> Well, a link to how much oil there is found until to day.......and
> that is till a hundred years.....and how much more is there, no one
> knows. But they find new oil almost every day.
>
>
>> I gave him a lengthy and reasoned answer as to why it wasn't and
>> expressed
>> the following conclusion. There is a 90% chance that World crude-oil
>> production
>> will reach an all-time high by 2020 at the latest.
>
>
> That is pure guess work, and not worth more than your other
> predictions........1997 and so on.
>
>
>> His reply was merely that 2020 is "rubbish", with no explanation.
>
>
> The amount of oil, shows your 2020 is wrong - rubbish.
>
>
>>
>> I don't think that that is way to conduct discourse in a professional
>> discussion group, especially one whose primary concern is the
>> technology of
>> gasification.
>
>
> Your prediction 2004......aaaah maybe not......lets say 2020......that
> is not professional.
>
>
>>
>> Extending my previous remarks, I now venture the following guess.
>> There is a
>> 60% chance that the subsequent decline will be steep rather than
>> shallow or a
>> plateau, but I am less certain of this latter statement than I am of
>> the
>> former, independent of the probabilities mentioned. If it is steep,
>> there is a high
>> probability of a Worldwide depression.
>
>
> Well, now you admit you are guessing. And it is rubbish, because how
> can you make those predictions......a steep decline of oil
> production......depression.......when there are all that oil reserve.
> In 12 years we will see that there are more proven oil reserve than
> there are to day.......and your responds.......the oil will peak in
> 2030.....? that is not professional.
>>
>> Sincerely. ###
>>
>>
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