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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#000000" vlink="#000000"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Jim,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It <u>is</u> a nasty claim. But we shouldn’t be shocked or in disbelief. In recent history we have the Iraq war as a paradigm, where the Blackwaters and Halliburtons hauled money by the C-5-load out of taxpayer’s pockets. How many deals had side channels? A little experience in D.C. politics would erase any remnant of flag-waving innocence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When our President started talking about massive infrastructure investments last night and put the feel-good marketing phrase “Clean Energy” high on his list of infrastructure investments that the government would make…I cringed! Saying that the “US is open for business” sounds a lot like saying that Washington’s K-Street is open for business. Most of the seminal advances in technological and industrial America have not been spurred by government largess. Without the catalyst of the “sink-or-swim” requirement that private investment implies, all of these government initiatives are bound to fail or at best, provide scant value for the money invested.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In the 19<sup>th</sup> Century, sociologist Max Weber had it figured out: Once in place, a bureaucracy’s main function is to maintain and grow its power and structure. The same goes for congressional committee chairman and staffers and the lobbyists who feed them and golf with them. (Our new Speaker of the House played golf 113-times last year; not with his parish priest, you may be assured.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Let the EXXONs of the world pay for “clean energy” development. They will be the ultimate benefactors in any case. I still remember the energy crunch of the 1970s and how rapidly the Energy Giants moved in to stamp-out the sparks of innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Reality is often depressing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jim Leach [mailto:jleach@danatech.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'; mark@ludlow.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>That is a pretty nasty and bold claim, do you have any facts to back that up?</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#04C6DB'>JAMES T. 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gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'> Government Grants and Ethanol.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>I think we all agree on: THE GREAT ETHANOL SWINDLE.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>This is where our tax dollars are diverted into non economic production </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>of a fuel additive which supposedly saves us from climate change.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>The primary players in this scam have made sure their methods together with the cash cow they have created “REMAINS INTACT”</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>The last thing they desire is a new and more efficient system to be discovered or adopted.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>So how do they protect their interests?</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Quite simply, take control of any new committees responsible for the selection of grants which might produce an alternative to their scam.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>How could such a wasteful and useless system be chosen for Federal Investment unless the people on the committee had an agenda which also included the grant seekers.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>The naivety of those who believe that poor judgment on the part of the perpetrators is the primary cause of such “losses” should have their voting rights revoked.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>There are no accidents or poor judgment in politics. That is the excuse generated by a stupid and trusting electorate.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>It will not matter how merit worthy your claim is for grant money, it will not be considered worthy if it challenges an established “funded” system. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>It might be chosen if it has “floors”, in which case, be prepared to share it with at least one member of the committee.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>GF</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Mark Ludlow <mark@ludlow.com><br>To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification' <gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org><br>Sent: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 11:20 am<br>Subject: Re: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id="AOLMsgPart_3_370f6179-801c-4382-8544-4acafe758468"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tom writes: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva","serif";color:black'>Wonder why anyone stays in this field?</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva","serif";color:black'>Reply: It pays well.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div style='margin-left:.5in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org"><u><span style='color:blue'>gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</span></u></a> [<a href="mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org?"><u><span style='color:blue'>mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</span></u></a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:LINVENT@aol.com"><u><span style='color:blue'>LINVENT@aol.com</span></u></a><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:tmiles@trmiles.com"><u><span style='color:blue'>tmiles@trmiles.com</span></u></a>; <a href="mailto:gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org"><u><span style='color:blue'>gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org</span></u></a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='margin-left:.5in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-left:.5in;margin-top:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva","serif";color:black'>Dear Technologists,<br> The failure or whatever it is spun by Mr. Klepper in the article announcing the closure of the plant, is by itself devastating to the industry. Without a successfully operating plant, the industry has no positive markers for the investment community. Do you think that the financing group would do another bio-refinery after putting up the money for this plant? <br> What is more difficult is that nowhere in the technical review community used to fund this plant was the critical eye which said "It won't work". Of course, the developers may have shopped the technical review until they got what they wanted to hear. The DOE is quite apparently not able to make the distinction as they approved the funding. This also means that a successful technology would not be known by them. It takes a winner to know a winner. <br> I had early meetings with parts of the Klepper movement. A small private group which had put $1+mm into the project and were basically abandoneed when the technology was sold to another group for development. Their concerns were the reactor design which apparently relied upon a mechanical system which they didn't think would scale well. Not knowing what the issues with the plant not operating, this may have been a contributing factor. They also said that they were sticking with it and just picking my brains which I suspected and didn't contribute anything of significance. <br> There were also issues with the catalyst. Reports that it produced only ethanol using the proprietary catalyst were suspect as most of the catalysts for ethanol production produce methanol also. The press statement that they ran a methanol batch first and then an ethanol batch, are interesting in this regard. <br> DOE is doing a lot of soul searching at the behest of the White House because of the dearth of bio-energy project successes. Political pressure will not make it happen, money will not make it happen, but a serious well developed , innovative, simple process and technology will. <br> Below are some of the massive failures:<br>Occidental's flash pyrolysis unit in Sad Diego: $100mm<br>Britestar/EDL pyrolysis unit in Australia: $200mm<br>Range Fuels: $300mm<br>Molten Metals: $90mm(mostly DOE earmarked funds)<br>Hawaii IGT/EPRI/Westinghouse/HPL/ gasification unit: $30-50mm?<br>Battelle's dual fluidized bed gasification system: $60mm? <br>Thermoselect's two stage combustion system: $125mm/plant 4-5 plants except for the one in Japan which I think is still operating. <br>PRM's Philadelphia sewage sludge gasification system: $2-3mm (blew up and was shut down very shortly after installation, I was called to see if wanted the plant for scrap).<br>Italian sawdust gasification plant near Venice, 1 Mwe couldn't get an engine to run more than 40 hours between valve jobs due to tar fouling of intake valves. <br>Farmland's acquisition of the Daggett, California Texaco coal gasification 144 Mwe power plant and reconstituting it in Coffeville, Kansas to run on pet coke for ammonia production. Texaco was thrown out of the project, Farmland finished the plant got it running on petcoke, had to file bankruptcy and sell the 1100 ton/day ammonia production unit using it to a separate entity. <br> The list goes on and on. <br> Wonder why anyone stays in this field? <br><br><br>Sincerely,<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Sand","serif";color:black'>Leland T. "Tom" Taylor<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Geneva","serif";color:black'>President<br>Thermogenics Inc.<br>505.463.8422<br><a href="http://www.thermogenics.com/" target="_blank"><u><span style='color:blue'>www.thermogenics.com</span></u></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div id="AOLMsgPart_4_370f6179-801c-4382-8544-4acafe758468"><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'>Gasification mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:Gasification@bioenergylists.org"><u><span style='color:blue'>Gasification@bioenergylists.org</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank"><u><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'>for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site:<o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><tt><span style='color:black'><a href="http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/" target="_blank"><u><span style='color:blue'>http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></tt></pre></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><br><br>__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5821 (20110126) __________<br><br>The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.<br><br><a href="http://www.eset.com"><u><span style='color:blue'>http://www.eset.com</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>