Re: GAS-L: Re: Practical boiling

[jerry dycus <jerry5335@yahoo.com>]

      Hi Neal and All,
--- CAVM@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/20/2002 7:40:23 PM Central
> Standard Time, Reedtb2@cs.com 
> writes:
> 
> 
> > If necessary I believe a VERY simple activator
> could be added to the outlet 
> > of the gasifier to achieve higher activation. 
> > 
> > I hope someone with a bad water supply will grab
> this idea and demonstrate 
> > it.   
> 
> 
> Tom, you may know that I am working in clean water
> projects for farms in 
> Mexico.  We have recommended to many dairy and hog
> farmers that the incoming 
> water to their farms is not clean enough to maintain
> animal health.  The cost 
> of production could be lowered if the water could be
> economically cleaned up.
     Try a swamp! They're cheap! Make a 200' shallow 
canal and put cattails, water lilies or most any
native water plants in it with dams every 20' or so.
The width would be sized by the volume you need. 
     Depending on which plants you use you can tailor
the swamp to clean heavy metals, pesticides or
whatever your problems are. 
     The water that comes out the end of the canal if
done right will be clean enough to drink. The method
has been used for years to clean sewage plant water.  

> 
> Since electrical power is $.18/kw and up in Mexico
> there is potential for 
> reliable and economical power production.  My
> earlier requests on 
> gasification led me to conclude that gasification in
> the range of 50kw to 
> 150kw was not dependable enough to recommend to the
> farmers.  If that has 
> changed in the last year I would like to know. 
    To be profitable with this requires net metering.
If you can't get $.10 kwhr by selling direct to the
customer or power co it won't be worth it.
    Let's do some numbers, a 100 kw unit, will make
$10hr from sale of electricity. This means to pay for
one employee or yourself, 50% for worker and 50% for
plant and overhead costs, you need 300kw at least.    
 
    This changes nicely if the wasteheat can be used. 
 


> 
> This is especially interesting if the ash can be
> used in the water clean up 
> for the animals.
    I'd put it back on the fields as fertilizer.
                       jerry dycus

> 
> 
> Neal Van Milligen
> Kentucky Enrichment Inc
> CAVM@AOL.com
> 


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