[Gasification] The Energy Non-Crisis

[Greg and April]

It's actually easier to make it into a synthetic oil much like diesel - 
which can be used as diesel or then refined into gas and other products. 
In this case it's just one step rather than a series of steps.

Greg H.


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>
> I don't know about the economics, but it is technically feasible for Maine 
> to
> make all its gasoline from local wood.   The "route" is wood to synthesis 
> gas
> to methanol to gasoline. The first two steps have been well proven in many
> places. The last one was   used for decades in New Zealand, when that 
> country
> still had a natural gas supply.
>
> [ This comment is germane to the subject of this list, since it concerns 
> in
> part the gasification of wood. ]
>
> Cordially. ###