[Gasification] DOE's demonstration gasification project history

[Greg and April]

Define subsidy and tell me the purpose of gasification.


Many people will say that the price of gasoline in the US is so low, because 
the government subsidizes it - OTOH, look at how it's taxed and you will 
actually see that the gasoline in the US, is just not taxed as heavy as it 
is in other parts of the world.

Is not taxing something as heavy as they could, considered a subsidy? 
Does taxing ( at a higher rate ) a better alternative, a different form of 
subsidy?


Why gasify?    Is it because it actually gives a tangible return, or is it 
because it gives an intangible return?

If someone has a excess of biomass, then perhaps that is a way to make use 
of it, but, if it's going to take the entire lifetime of the reactor to see 
a return, I have to ask if it is worth the cost of materials, effort, and 
maintance.


Greg H.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Miles" <tmiles at trmiles.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gasification] DOE's demonstration gasification project history


> >All of these have at least one thing in common, they were too expensive 
> >to
> operate without subsidy.
>
> Is gasification at any scale "too expensive to operate without subsidy"?
>
> Tom Miles
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