On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 21:42 -0700, Tom Miles wrote: > A group of arborists on Maui want to generate power and make biochar > from Eucalyptus. Cutting lumber with a portable sawmill and using the > sawdust, slabs and edgings to generate power and grow crops is > something that we dreamed about almost 50 years ago. Can we do it > today?
Sure, after all we went to the moon in the sixties. The secret here is to settle into the scheme and make a commitment. One day at a time, day after day. Some days better some days worse but at the end of the year steady progress. No frozen time table but only commitment. > Would you recommend your gas-a-fire for making biochar? I'm becoming vertical, in order to survive the biomass world, so biochar was one of the scheme I needed to shied. Not because biochar is a bad thing but because it's a large study and I'm only one part time person with only a few hours every year to devote. Because of this I do not know what kind of charcoal makes good biochar. In other words I can not honestly answer your question without the charcoal being tested. I can recommend it for making charcoal along with heating grade producer gas. Would Maui be interested in adding a waste plastic to liquid fuel scheme to their master plan? Nice use for the Gas-of-Fire. <http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/7040-how-turn-plastic-waste-into-diesel-fuel-cheaply.html> Jeff _______________________________________________ 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/
