Re: GAS-L: A plague of criticism, any solutions?

[Luiz Alberto Magri <luizmagri@yahoo.com>]

Mr Leyland,

I think you have clearly stated some of the major
concerns regarding gasification and I would like to
point out:

1) Gasification success is very likely connected to
social related actions such like emissions trading
market. Due to the low cost of fossil fuels there are
no economic reasons for changing. What about having a
look on the progress of Johannesburg (Rio
+10)proposals?

2) Biomass gasification will be easier developed as
"integrated biomass transformation cycles", ie, where
it is needed to harvest and collect biomass as part of
the main (not thermal) process, then it is worthwhile
to include for the gasification cycle. Maybe sugar
factories will enter this era sooner or later.

I hope I will be alive to see that hapens...

Luiz Magri
Rio de Janeiro

--- LINVENT@aol.com wrote:
> Dear Daniel,
>     Thanks for the early morning support. It is
> after 4am here. 
>     None of the biomass projects which I have seen
> in large scale are 
> economically successful for two major reasons, cost
> of the fuel, (always 
> positive) increasing with transportation distance,
> and power value. A recent 
> presentation in Albuquerque by the McNeal Station
> manager showed that the 
> value of electricity which they received from the
> grid was so low that the 
> plant was only used for peaking. It was started and
> stopped several hundred 
> times a month, whenever the power value exceeded the
> cost of operation. The 
> cost of harvesting and transporting biomass was a
> the major factor in these 
> economics.  

(...)




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