[Gasification] Where is Everyone?

[Anand Karve]

Dear Doug and colleagues,
a happy new year to all. I think that I have something new to report. I am
basically a botanist who shifted to agricultural research after working for
about 5 years on various academic aspects of botany. I hit upon
gasification rather late in my career, but I found that this
interdisciplinary work helped me in understanding the role of microbes in
agriculture. The minerals occurring naturally in soil have very low
solubility. Therefore the plants cannot take them up directly from soil.
However the soil bacteria can take them up from the soil and make them
available to plants. I thus hit upon the idea of using soil as a source of
minerals for the biogas producing microbes. Nowadays we just ask users to
put about 100 kg field soil into their biogas plants. They have all
reported that their biogas plants worked better after this instruction was
acted upon. I do not have any quantitative data comparing the before and
after results of soil addition to prove that the biogas producing microbes
could extract minerals from soil, but somebody with the necessary
instruments and patience may repeat the experiment and see if this
treatment really works.
Yours
A.D.Karve

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Dr. A.D. Karve

Chairman, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd (www.samuchit.com)

Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Doug <doug.williams.nz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gasification Colleagues,
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> It's 2017 already and Happy New Year to anyone still linked to this forum.
> I was surprised to see that no one has written anything since August 2016,
> but then, even I have had little to offer by way of interesting activity
> myself. With that in mind, I will post a Fluidyne Archive update once I
> take a few more photos.
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> The trigger for this contact with the G.List, was a visit to me on the
> 30th December, from my friend of 31 years, Dr Ludo Lacrosse who is well
> known across  Asia for his work with energy projects. His office is in
> Bangkok, so a chance for us to catch up and gossip about all those people
> who have in the past  made contributions to gasified projects. Even though
> we work closely with people for years at times, they still drop out of
> sight and friendships put on the "back burner".
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> So where are you all, and let's hear your 2017 opinions of renewable
> energy.
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> Doug Williams,
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> Fluidyne.
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