GAS-L: Goss Gasifiers

[Reedtb2@cs.com]

Dear Toms and all:

Yes, Goss and team made many gasifiers.  In particular, having seen a WWII
Imbert (nozzle) gasifier working well, they built one ten times as big for
the California Energy Commission and it was the biggest tar producer of all
time.  

The nozzles that supplied air at the small scale to burn the tars merely
roaster the fuel in the larger size.  If they had scaled the fuel to larger
sizes it might have worked.  But then no one has ever bothered to understand
the Imbert gasifier principles.....

Maybe someday we'll get GOOD gasifiers. (100 monkeys at 100 typewriters will
eventually produce all the works of Shakespeare.)

TOM REED

In a message dated 3/20/01 8:19:45 AM Mountain Standard Time, LINVENT@aol.com
writes:

Dear Tom,
   Dr. Goss made a gasifier which operated for some time for the
University of California and I think the California Energy Commission.

Tom Taylor