On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:46:41 -0600, Robert wrote in message <2E638D4475914749A9F74E769E286E76@RobertPC>:
> Below is a link to a NPR story on Sweden's conversion of trash to > energy. There is no mention of the method used. ..read again, and slower this time. ;o) > Does anyone know if this is gasification? ..only the kind you get in common district heat boilers. ;o) > If you read the article, other countries are > paying Sweden to take their trash and Sweden produces energy from > it. Is there a chance that this could actually be cost effective? ..hell yeah, trash dump fees are easily US$250 per ton and holds around 2/3 of the energy of wood, so do the math. ;o) ..for Norway, it probably keeps Statoil.com from having to compete against e.g. EU MSW in e.g. my kinda gasifiers. > http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/28/163823839/sweden-wants-your-trash?ft=3&f=111787346&sc=nl&cc=es-20121104 > > Thanks -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ 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/
