Hi Ken and Colleagues
You really stirred up my memory about your time in the Pacific, and I know I
have all your letters in my box files.
When you talk about this High School project and all the innovation you had
to do, was this before the E.U.Lome3 funded project at the same place? A
pile of $$$ was spent there on a tractor trailer amongst other things, and
the specifications set for the project, included fuel drying capability. In
fact, they were asking for the Moon at that time!! We spent a lot of money
to meet their requirements, but were advised we were not eligible until they
had all our documentation. (That is a story I will write up one day).
In the last two years, I have had two Christian groups wanting to resurrect
that project, and an American Fulbright Research Fellow working out of New
Zealand, who visited the project site in 2009. Nothing remains of the
installation, and the site is stripped clean of anything useful. The School
still runs on diesel. His study was to assess the ability of supplying grid
power to the main city grids.
With no money of their own, no direct ownership of the equipment, and no
capability to maintain stuff without people like yourself involved, one
wonders why these projects ever got off the ground. At least some of those
old students from your time, appreciated the role that gasifiers can play,
as some wrote to me from their communities seeking funded help to build
gasifiers locally. It did not happen.
Regards,
Doug Williams,
Fluidyne.
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