Re: GAS-L: feeding biomass into pressurised systems

["Tom Miles" <tmiles@trmiles.com>]

Andrew,

You seem to have touched a nerve. :-)

I presented the essential results of the Technology Verification Phase
demonstration, for the period 1996-1997, clearly and objectively, in a paper
presented to the Bioenergy 98 conference in Madison, Wisconsin. My
presention was based on the project report that was prepared by the project
team. With all due respect I think the reports were ignored rather than
buried because some people find politics a lot more fun than science and
engineering. I think Tom and I simply differ on whether the testing was
useful.

Just last week I encountered  cases where individuals and companies involved
in that project have taken the results of their experience and carried them
further in the past five years to improve their systems. They have done that
with investment of their own funds and energies and their activities are not
for me to discuss here. You'll just have to take that on faith.

In my experience it is not unsual for publicly funded projects to have their
detractors. A frequent and negative consequence is that sometimes gossip and
hearsay from people who have no relationship to the project is
misinterpreted and damages similar projects.

It's far more productive to move on and explore or revisit the variety of
technical solutions that we have available, as you are attempting to do.
You've listed a number of feeding options and concepts. Each have been
tested in various forms at both the small and large scales. Some are
still under development and testing by various entities and all merit
further discussion.

Tom Miles







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