Am I the only one getting the "daily" digests every 2-3 messages ?
On Friday I receevd 12 "daily" digests from the list. Great dose of reality coming through from Doug, Bill, Thomas, Bruce et al. Will the call to commercial reality be headed ? Unfortunately it is unlikely, but it has to be said none the less. I started in this "game" in 1998 as a mature age PhD student who had enough of the daily grind in industry. Unfortunatley I got the bug and in 2008 I eventually succumbed to thoughts of doing my own commercialisation exercise. I have tried to take what I have read on this list and what I have seen working/ not working in the sugar, coal and bioenergy industries to learn from the mistakes and exagerations of the past. Our emphasis from day one has been to get the materials handling working first and the "gasification" second. The result is we focussed on developing a mobile moving bed updraft gasifier, which really does hark back to the commercial past of gasification. Not sexy, and certainly not tar free gas, but it sure chews through a wide varitey of feedstocks and provides enough of a "paradigm shift" to provide other ways to deal with the gas, char and tar products. As of 2010 things look quite positive for us commercially. Howeer there is still a long way to go and only time will tell whether we have avoided the traps that have befallen so many others. Regards, James www.bigchar.com.au _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
