From: "David B. Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change
To: "globalchange" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:15 PM
Subject: [Global Change: 2712] Re: Black Liquor
>
> On Jun 15, 6:48 am, "Don Libby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ... I found that the leading technology for electricity production from
>> wood is fueled by "Black Liquor".
>
> Another choice is torrified wood, ... peanut shells ... wood wastes ...
>
> The price of coal and natural gas is now so high that we'll see more
> and more of this, world-wide. It just takes awhile to set up...
Yes we'll see more, but how much more? Black liquor gasification is
low-hanging fruit because the harvesting, transport, and processing of raw
materials is already in place and the return on investment is fairly
attractive when converting a waste stream into added revenue from
electricity (and carbon credit) sales at an established enterprise. The
Princeton report that I cited states that if solid wood wastes at pulp mills
are also gasified, electricity output would roughly double to 16GW.
Still a long way from 292GW.
Thanks,
-dl
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