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<DIV><SPAN class=009031920-01012011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial> Greetings Doug, and list.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=009031920-01012011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Doug,
as always, you continue to astound me with your knowledge, and insight, I only
wish I could put pen to paper, as you do.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=009031920-01012011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Happy
New Year to all.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=009031920-01012011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Greg
Manning</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org
[mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>doug.williams<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 01, 2011 4:28
AM<BR><B>To:</B> gasification@bioenergylists.org<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Gasification] The Enigma of Gasification<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>Hi Colleagues,</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I address this to no one in particular,
as it records for those interested in the dynamics of making things happen,
the futility of assuming we are movers and shakers of our time. I meant what I
said, " we are only discovering what other people
forgot, or chose not to do"!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There is nothing profound left to say
about what we do, unless we are pumping up the public illusions of our
companies (or own) expertise, but just one fib or silly statement, will see
you swing from a petard of your own making. It's not about gas making of any
definition, but I personally find it alarming to see so much simplistic
expectation from those who write to me, using basic gasification with air, as
an opportunity to get their snout into the public $$ trough. Am I a pricker of
delusional balloons, or just another failed wana-be, out to spoil others
aspirations?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When I start thinking like this, I read
what I wrote to this forum back in October 1997, in the German Reports, which
you can read again on the Fluidyne Archive <A
href="http://www.fluidynenz.250x.com">www.fluidynenz.250x.com</A> A
year later 1998, I pulled the plug on Fluidyne Gasification as a manufacturing
company, finding the graft and corruption throughout Asia, not my cup of tea,
and the time in Europe wasted. Trying to work with every company
busting their brains to qualify for EU funding, isn't healthy. From
my perspective, I wasted 23 years facilitating other peoples dreams, and
won the Booby prize of gasification experience, plus another 12 years of
waiting for energy experts predictions to come true. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Alex English I remember, appealed to me
to save a record of what had been done, so the Fluidyne Archive came into
being. It's not meant to be a history of Fluidyne, but showing what we
had done,and a place to put photos from our files on topics that are
discussed exclusively on this Gasification List. I don't belong to, or
read any other forum discussing gasification, so I am not exactly trying to
convert the World to my way of thinking, as some might
suggest. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Remember I said that I was an Indentured
Boilermaker? I dug out my Certification Papers this morning (1st
January 2011), and read again this archaic document, where- by my father
signed away five years of my life, to be apprenticed to a man who would
be responsible for teaching me the art of working with steel. I muse
at the fact that you can be awarded an Honour Doctorate or Degree, or even buy
yourself any sort of academic qualifications on-line, but no way can
you become an Honour Boilermaker.
</FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My first tool box is
still under the house, filled with memories and black tools, now seeming so
crude compared to their shiny modern counterparts that break when put to
do real work. Similar to people really, but I slightly
digress.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Gasification for me, is a survival
technology. We live in a complex World of change, both political and
environmentally, where overnight, we can see all we take for granted,
vanish in an instant. This doesn't motivate me to save anyone, but the lights
will never go out in my house, thanks to gasified engine powered generation
(but only when the grid goes down). The ability to survive sudden change, has
cost attached, but if considered as an Insurance Policy, gasified power
generation has to be a serious contender for emergency power if nothing else.
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What then, is there to offer future
generations about gasification? Teach them to do it better, faster,
and cleaner, cheaper, is that the best on offer for our expertise
acquired at such great expense of time and money? As a gas, is it only
considered to be chemical building blocks, and the waste char an in-thing, to
be seen stuffed in the ground for carbon credits? Can gasification open
a pathway to facilitate new sciences? Hmmm.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My obligations to gasification continue
for another two years, in which time, my associates will have completed a very
demanding five year apprenticeship in the black art of gasification. Will
their efforts be ready for 2015 when the next oil crunch comes, or is the
carrot on the stick always going to remain the same? Who really cares
anyway?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'd hate to think that the time will come
when gasifier commercials implore us to buy now, but wait, ring now and get a
second free,etc,etc, but I jest don't I?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My free holiday time has now been
consumed, and reality rules again limiting my time. My other life awaits,
and I must return to being a lurker again on this
Forum. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Keep it friendly
Team.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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