GAS-L: Re: Gasification and Carbon management -- First National Conference on Carbon...

[Reedtb2@cs.com]

Dear All - and Harry:

As usual, Harry's assement of the current status is correct when he says...

.   Only coal can supply these very  large-scale gasifiers.  Biomass is best
used for smaller-scale boiler fuel applications if economic.

This mirrors the WWII experience in which the German synthetic fuel industry
used coal - but the civilians used wood gasifiers for trucks, cars, buses.  
Toward the end of the war the German's hauled their tanks to the front lines
using wood gasifiers.... then converted to gasoline/diesel for battle.

I think we can learn from this, but I hope we won't need WWIII to do it.

TOM REED