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I have been given some value for long term contracts for bio-char from
international purchasers that are in need of confirmation. Can anyone provide
information on what is being offered price wise and the quality?
Sincerely,
Leland T. "Tom" Taylor
Thermogenics Inc.
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From: Craig Kernan <[email protected]>
To: gasification <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Jan 22, 2015 1:00 pm
Subject: Re: [Gasification] sustainability
I you want safe energy generation, nuclear or other,
just require insurance to cover all damage, personal injury and deaths
coverage at the 90th wrongful death settelment level. I do not know
all the things needed to make complex, dangerous processes highly
unlikely to do do damage, however with this kind of insurance
requirement I think a lot of the best experts will be working on
extremely safe designs. Somewhat similar rules might be applied to
mining and processing industries.
Making explicit rules does not control things well. taxes work
much better, If they are not suficintly efecitve they can be adjusted.
If not suffiently global impose them on all imports based on worst
poluting in source country.
Alass, not achievable in the curent culture.
craig
On 1/22/2015 10:09 AM, Bob Stuart wrote:
This must be a troll from under the Nuclear bridge. I live near
the first Uranium mines, which are still leaking and producing
mutants. By the time they, and all the other hazards have been cleaned
up, there is likely to be no net gain at all. The potential of nuclear
is tiny without re-processing, which has never worked. It is dwarfed not
only by wind, but by hydrothermal vents, the smallest of which puts out
the power of several big nukes. The only thing nukes are good for is
producing bomb material and corruption in politics. Just try to get one
insured if you don't believe me.
Bob Stuart
On 22-Jan-15, at 8:49 AM, Kermit Schlansker wrote:
Ideas on Sustainability
We have no
right to dismiss Global Warming. The consequences are so
dire that if the probability of warming occurring
were only .1% we still would have to act.
Furthermore the question really is whether we have to
conserve or not. As the years go by we will run out of
many resources including fossil fuels and it is
imperative that we conserve them. Still another reason is
that by reducing consumption we can reduce the basic cost
of living and that will be essential at a time where
poverty is everywhere.
It is
imperative that we build more nuclear plants because that
is the only source of energy large enough to save us from
total despair. Solar, biomass and wind can never produce
enough to satisfy our needs. However energy sources are
only competitive in terms of priority and price. We
need all of them. Some of them are much easier to
finance than nuclear and we must proceed on all
fronts. We must develop all types of energy conservation
and alternate energy production in order to keep the cost
and number of nuclear plants down to a manageable level.
Geometry is
the best tool for conserving energy. Cities must be
designed a square mile at a time. That square mile should
be packed with apartment houses, factories, multi-purpose
buildings, a department store, and anything else
that is needed for every day life. Towns should be
so designed that “walking to work will save the
earth” The construction of single family houses should be
stopped. The first step is to stop subsidizing them in
any way. Apartments will save large amounts of heating
energy and the compactness they can create will greatly
reduce transportation energy. City and county governments
must assist in the formation of car pools.
Apartments are the only way of saving energy that
costs nothing because we need a place to live anyhow.
Energy saving
devices such as cogeneration, comanufacturing, combustion
driven heat pumps, and solar mirrors for both power
generation and heating must be developed. Biomass
gasifying and biodigestion must be experimented with.
Large amounts of biomass including fruit trees must be
planted. Cities must plant parks and streets with
edible plants. It is essential that sewage be
biodigested along with other biomass and used to make
fertilizer, fuel gas, and clean water The digestion
residues can initially be used for fertilizing energy
crops in order to avoid pollution problems
There should be
large farms with apartment houses on them rather than
single family houses that destroy both cropland and
wilderness. Experimental farming should develop both
energy and food crops. Farm apartment buildings are ideal
places to experiment with heating, cooling, small
windmills, and solar energy.
It is
imperative that city, State, and county governments get
involved in initiating large energy projects such as an
energy farm or experimental low heat apartments. A
universal factory would also be a good project. In order
to do this they should work together to start and
finance such projects. It is as essential to make
it easier for ordinary citizens to form
cooperatives and small corporations that would do energy
or food projects. There should be a roster in city hall
of people that wish to buy stock and help to form such
projects.
Kermit
Schlansker PE [email protected]
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