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<p><font face="Liberation Sans">Hi Harrie,</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans">Looks like I have been not receiving
the Gasification List, probably since that project in the
Philippines was posted, thinking everyone had changed choice of
forum!</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans">Answers in the text.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/09/18 09:18, Harrie Knoef wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:C1E324BA08D2471EBE3A467C5D4836BA@BTGLT002">Very nice to
hear from you Doug . Really appreciated.
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I still work for a lot of students in the Netherlands and Germany,
but mostly in Africa. That's my passion
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I have a nice suprise for you.
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Some months ago there was a request about a gasification project
in the Philippines of you from which nobody would be intested
into,,, unless as a volunteer as I remember.
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I asked myself, why not?</blockquote>
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Well if you considered it a Holiday, why not. A very hospitable
country.<br>
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cite="mid:C1E324BA08D2471EBE3A467C5D4836BA@BTGLT002">
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I went as a short of volunteer, to help those people in a very
remote area.
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What better job can you do????
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I am working on a ferrocement project and further on building
employment in that remote are.
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Pleased to see that the ferrocement gasifiers continue to be built,
the perfect material in such remote places.<br>
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cite="mid:C1E324BA08D2471EBE3A467C5D4836BA@BTGLT002">
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Besides the ferrocement gasifier in the Philippines, I was
involved in the same design as in Thailand, Indonesia, Germany
(that one was frosen in the winter) , Argentina, Ghana.
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Except for Germany and Argentina all working. About Thailand I am
not very sure.
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I haven't kept up with the implementation programme of these
gasifiers, but when they were introduced for the Bremen University
project, They certainly created a lot of interest. I often wonder
what happened to all those guys who came to Bremen 1989-94, and how
many are still involved today.<br>
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cite="mid:C1E324BA08D2471EBE3A467C5D4836BA@BTGLT002">
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Dear Doug, conferences may be interesting but not contributing
that's much unless you are walking on the field, I was one month
ago walking a pineapple field in Kenya.</blockquote>
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For me that is now out of the question, but for sure you have to be
able to work with mud between your toes in rural situations. I have
a interesting little project in New Zealand, supporting as adviser,
to a research project requiring very controlled updraft
gasification. Some might say, same old technology, but it's nothing
like anything I have seen before, and maybe after we test the
concept shortly, we will see if there still is innovation left to be
discovered. <br>
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cite="mid:C1E324BA08D2471EBE3A467C5D4836BA@BTGLT002">
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Did you hear recently from Rod Newell?</blockquote>
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Rod like many of our colleagues has vanished from my radar, I don't
write as much as I used to these days, at least not about
gasification, unless like you, pop up on this Gasification forum.<br>
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Hope you can keep us informed about the ferrocement projects, you
should have some good photos to show of the work in progress.<br>
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Stay safe in your travels.<br>
Regards,<br>
Doug. <br>
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