Tom,
You can say that any pilot project is pricey. If the intent is proof of concept then the costs won’t represent a commercial production facility. Even the first few plants will require some subsidy to compete with fossil fuels so it really depends on the long term vision of the public funding agencies. We have already seen some investors back out of a couple of biomass projects because of low cost shale gas. They were probably just in it to develop the project and would leave anyway. Tom Miles From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 10:35 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Gasification] Karlsruhe Institute of Technology bioliq® pilot project Rather pricey system for 1 ton/day yield. It only proves that with enough money, any process can be made to work technically, but economically? There are much less expensive ways to do this. Wonder if there will be a #2 system. Going to get rough to put these deals together with the dropping crude oil pricing. Sincerely, Leland T. "Tom" Taylor Thermogenics Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Erin Rasmussen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 12:35 pm Subject: [Gasification] Karlsruhe Institute of Technology bioliq® pilot project This is a nice write-up of the Bioliq biomass to fuel project: http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2014/12/01/bioliq_complete_process_chain_is_running.html more from the Karlsuher Institut für Technologie web page: http://www.kit.edu/kit/15985.php And the bioliq project web site http://www.bioliq.de <http://www.bioliq.de/> Erin Rasmussen TR Miles Technical Consultants Inc. http://www.trmiles.com/ and BioEnergy Discussion Lists http://www.bioenergylists.org/ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] <mailto:[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/
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