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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Father's Day Gasification and Biochar Workshop: June 17-19, 2011</span></strong></span><em><br><br>
Opening Intro & Lecture: Friday, June 17, 7:30 – 9:30PM<br>
Weekend Build, Run and Test: Saturday and Sunday, June 17-19, 11am – 7pm</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.gekgasifier.com/about/workshop/travel-and-accomodation/" target="_blank">Location: ALL Power Labs, 1010 Murray Street, Berkeley CA 94710</a><br>
Cost: Free if you are a GEK or BEK owner, either through self build or purchase. Otherwise, $100 for weekend</em>.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.gekgasifier.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2145#post2145" target="_blank">RSVP to the forum here.</a></span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><a href="http://www.gekgasifier.com/about/workshop/sign-up/" target="_blank">Buy your spot here.</a></span></span></p>
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Our summer workshop is fast approaching- June 17th - 19th. Many of
you have already RSVP'ed and are flying in from the 4 corners, but
there is still room for more. So come join us for a quality Father's
Day weekend of wrenching, rotating machinery, and guided tour down the
rabbit hole of biomass thermal conversion.<br>
<p>The workshop begins with a Friday evening talk on the science of
gasification and pyrolysis, and the new engineering solutions embodied
in the GEK gasifier and BEK biochar maker. Saturday and Sunday are
full days of building, running and testing
the physical particulars. Come prepared to get your hands dirty
building and running machinery. We learn through both talking and
working.<br></p><p>We'll
have 4 projects going in parallel for this round of the workshop. You
can participate in all of them, and wander between them as desired.<br>
<br></p><p><b>1. 50 Hour Endurance run of the 10kw Power Pallet:<br></b>Long
proving runs of the Power Pallet continue on this end. This round
we'll do a total of 50 hours over several days. We have it on good
authority that it will not rain this time, and we'll be sure to have
plenty of reasonable fuel on hand before we start. We look forward to
more refined data on fuel consumption, gas composition, and feedback on
general usability from you kicking the tires over the weekend. Runs
will start on Saturday and continue into the early part of the
following week. If you can't be here, we'll have a webcam on the
proceedings as usual.<br>
</p><p>This test will use one of the current generation stainless steel Power Pallets pictured here: <a href="http://www.gekgasifier.com/wpgallery/" target="_blank">http://www.gekgasifier.com/wpgallery/</a><br><br></p><p>
<b>2. Demonstration runs of the 20kw Power Pallet:</b><br>
Those of you interested in the larger 20kw Power Pallet will can
finally see one in action over the weekend. There will also be 8 of
the 20kw Power Pallets under assembly in the APL factory, so you can
see how we make them. Things will look something like this, only
bigger: <a href="http://wiki.gekgasifier.com/w/file/40416596/batch2onthefloor.JPG" target="_blank">http://wiki.gekgasifier.com/w/file/40416596/batch2onthefloor.JPG</a>. The engineers and builders of these units will be on hand to answer questions and explain the details.<br>
<br></p><b>3. GEK Gasifier Building:<br></b>Want to build you own
gasifier? Here's your chance to do it, using our tools and with plenty
of instruction from the local crew. <br><br>This round of the
workshop we're having a special GEK Level III building clinic. We have
tables and welders for 4 people who want to weld together a kit over
the weekend. Given clear inhouse instruction, you should be able to
get through the building process by the end of Sunday. Finished
gasifiers can Russian doll back into the hopper and filter
for checking as oversize baggage on the plane. Yes this does work. We
do this regularly. <br><br>Anyone who wants to do this will need to
reserve a spot by purchasing a Level III weld together GEK kit. There
is no additional cost for instruction, using our tools, and burning our
welding wire. The workshop is also free if you get a kit. We're
trying to make this easy and accessible.<br>
<br>Again, there are ONLY 4 slots for gasifier building. Welders are
limited. Please reserve ahead of time if you want to build a kit. <br> <br><br>
<b>4. BEK Biochar maker running:<br></b><br>We continue to have the
BEK on hold while we focus on ramping up the Power Pallet production.
This has made quite a few people unhappy, as there is so few small
scale biochar making machines available at the moment. We're trying to
get back to making these as soon as possible, but in the meantime we
wanted to give the interested a chance to run our in house machine. <br>
<br>We'll have the BEK on fire both Saturday and Sunday of the
workshop. You are welcome to bring your feedstock of interest and run
it through. Or, you can experiment with our variety of feedstocks on
location. If you have some you want to bring, please do write us
beforehand so we can coordinate the details.<br>
<br><br><b><br>General Info and Signup</b><br>
<p>The APL workshop series offers education,
research reports and hands-on experience to bring more people to
successful operation of small scale gasification and pyrolysis units.
The event is open to everyone, not just GEK or BEK users/owners.
Worshops are free if you own a GEK or BEK by either purchase or DIY
build. Otherwise the weekend is $100, which helps to cover food, drink
and other consumables.</p><p>If you want to join us, please RSVP to the forum
thread here: <a href="http://www.gekgasifier.com/forums/showthread.php?t=563" target="_blank">http://www.gekgasifier.com/forums/showthread.php?t=563</a><br></p><p> If you need to pay the workshop fee, you can do so via
credit card here: <a href="http://www.gekgasifier.com/about/workshop/sign-up/" target="_blank">http://www.gekgasifier.com/about/workshop/sign-up/</a><br></p><p>Information on local accommodation, maps and airports is here: <a href="http://www.gekgasifier.com/about/workshop/travel-and-accomodation/" target="_blank">http://www.gekgasifier.com/about/workshop/travel-and-accomodation/</a><br>
</p><p><br></p><p>We look forward to seeing you here soon.</p><br>jim<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Jim Mason<br>Website: <a href="http://www.whatiamupto.com">http://www.whatiamupto.com</a><br>
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