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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><STRONG>Hi Thomas and
Colleagues,</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>You kindly replied:</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>Dear Doug<BR> <BR>>Thank you very much
for your contribution. <BR> <BR>>I take the liberty to assume that part
of your refelxtions and thoughts are adressed to me.<BR> <BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><STRONG>I opened my mail at lunch time, and
am staggered at the</STRONG> <STRONG>public and private responses of this
posting, and it is crazy for me to try and reply individually. Thomas did
inspire me to write about "the Enigma", because as we all know, our technology
and what it represents in the right place, has no part in the grandiose schemes
paying lip service to fossil fuel reduction. Well, now this is your chance to
have a voice.</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG> In March I have been asked to be a Keynote
speaker, at a Workshop following the next round of the IEA
Gasification Task Force Meetings, at Canterbury University, here in New Zealand.
I'm sure they must be desperate, or need comic relief from the tedium of it
all, but I have no topic specified, just talk
gasification!!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Since the beginning of gasification again in the 1970's, money has
flowed through any number of projects that end up dead in the water. When I see
what you guys can do with a few strokes of the key board, it should be no
problem to assemble a heft body of evidence to prove those who are tasked to
find answers, are not cutting the Mustard, and as public servants, also
answerable to us, the tax payer. If they cannot solve the bigger
picture, we need opportunity to at least supply the appropriate bottom
end of energy markets their policies refuse to acknowledge. </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG> Energy budgets of most countries are staggering, and
gasification in all it's applications would not even cause a crack in their pie
charts, but it would create jobs, solve local energy issues and provide a solid
foundation for future growth. This is not bull, it's a way forward for a
lot of people, and you Minister of Energy should be told this in no uncertain
terms. Governments cannot tax income from equipment not sold, or
the new jobs created, but it would be easy to waiver sales tax,
and give tax breaks to these smaller projects to give them some legs. We had no
sales tax on all renewable energy equipment here in NZ during the 1970's,
probably the only country to do so at that time. </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV> <STRONG>So, if you all want to participate with a common voice from
all countries, give me something to work with, but stick to facts that can be
verified. I will also need very fast work on this, and help to assemble it into
a PowerPoint presentation. I'm computer illiterate remember!</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Yes or No. but don't stuff about.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Doug Williams,</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Fluidyne.</STRONG></DIV>
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