[Gasification] DOE's demonstration gasification project history

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Tom

Tom Miles wrote:
>> 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"?
>   

How long is a piece of rope? :-)

Gasification is definitely economic in cases where fuel and labor costs 
are reasonable, and the cost of alternative end forms of energy are 
adequately high.

Gasifiers can be manually operated (cheap) or automated (expensive.) 
Alternative power can be cheap ($C.08 per kW grid connected in New 
Brunswick) to expensive (when based on imported diesel fuel costing 
about $2.50 per litre.

The specific answer to your question is site specific.

Best wishes,

Kevin
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