<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Dear GF and all</div><div><br></div><div>When I was a young (16) sprat I got used graphite electrodes from the movie theatre projector man and putthem in series with my mother's iron to AC melt all kinds of stuff. Also blew a lot of fuses.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Reed<br><br>Dr Thomas B Reed<div>President, The Biomass Energy Foundation</div><div><a href="http://www.Woodgas.com">www.Woodgas.com</a></div></div><div><br>On Jan 18, 2011, at 12:54 PM, GF <<a href="mailto:gfwhell@aol.com">gfwhell@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">
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<div>Arnt.</div>
<div>I wouldn't say it was sophisticated or difficult to rework a couple of road side microwave ovens.</div>
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<div>This guy seems to be able to cast metal and talk on his cellphone at the same time.</div>
<div>Extra cooling of the magnetrons is essential,the 12volt fans are only $6 each,</div>
<div>An awareness of the dangers of stray radiation is useful. A sheet<br>
metal enclosure suitably grounded, forming a "Faraday cage" will help.</div>
<div>Fluorescent tubes will glow in the presence of such radiation and as you say</div>
<div>RFI will prevail if you are careless, </div>
<div>Carbon arc furnaces are old technology.and not cheap to run unless you make your own electrodes.</div>
<div>I think its great that some of the group are thinking out side the box.</div>
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From: Arnt Karlsen <<a href="mailto:arnt@c2i.net">arnt@c2i.net</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org"><a href="mailto:gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org">gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org</a></a><br>
Sent: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 2:22 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Enventix: Syngas and Biochar from Waste<br>
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<<a href="mailto:8CD84E3897DF9D0-474-1B599@webmail-stg-m04.sysops.aol.com"><a href="mailto:8CD84E3897DF9D0-474-1B599@webmail-stg-m04.sysops.aol.com">8CD84E3897DF9D0-474-1B599@webmail-stg-m04.sysops.aol.com</a></a>>:
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> Brian.
> I have brought this matter up on several occasions regarding
> secondary exposure of thermal energy to the output gas. It seems to
> me that raising the temperature within a reaction chamber in the
> absence of oxygen and adding steam through a hollow carbon rod,
..sounds like a nice sophisticated, expensive way to make synthetic
gas out of that steamy carbon tube. ;o)
> the tip of which is producing a plasma can only improve the quality
> and quantity of usable gas, which will more than compensate for the
> electrical energy used.
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> There will be a considerable reduction in the flow of air for
> pyrolysis. In fact commercial plasma reactors do not require any air
> for combustion the oxygen is derived from steam. Use could be made of
> the hot exhaust stream from an ICE to torrify the "FUEL" in order to
> produce the required gas flow through such a reactor, thus claiming
> much of the thermal energy being wasted. the final product would also
> produce methanol not tar. I hope to obtain a high enough plasma
> temperature with the use of micro wave excitation, 2.4 Ghz radiation
> can travel through some types of refractory. this will cut costs
> considerably.
..you can contain that MW scale 2.4Ghz radiation so you don't
jam out mW scale 2.4Ghz WIFI, Bluetooth and cell phone etc
communications? (Would make a nice revenge for my first ISP
job though, we were WIFI-based and were jammed out of business
by Telenor's home WIFI routers.)
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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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