[Stoves] SPAM: Re: FW: Dr. Tom Reed: The Father of Clean Burning?

Sat Apr 29 16:33:59 CDT 2017

Thank Paul. My apologies for the misinformation. 

Tom

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Subject: SPAM: Re: [Stoves] FW: Dr. Tom Reed: The Father of Clean Burning?

Anil and all,

Tom Reed is alive and physically healthy but not as scientifically active as
before, living near his daughter in Massachuesetts.  He is now 90 years old.

There is some current consideration of the eventual disposition of his many
decades of files.  if a suitable recipient is available, please contact me
off-list at    psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu>      and I
will notify Tom and his daughter.

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
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Skype:   paultlud    Phone: +1-309-452-7072
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On 4/29/2017 11:39 AM, nari phaltan wrote:

Excuse me. Is Tom Reed no more? Is that the reason why the tribute is being
written. Can you please fill in the details.

Anil K rajvanshi

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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com
<mailto:tmiles at trmiles.com> > wrote:

I appreciate Dean Still's tribute to Tom Reed in his latest newsletter
below. Tom was our friend, client, mentor, and collaborator for more than 40
years. He inspired inventions, theses, and many companies. Most importantly
he kept bringing us back to fundamentals. As Director of the US Department
of Energy Alcohol Fuels Program (1979- ) at the Solar Energy Research
Institute (now National Renewable Energy Laboratory) he introduced many of
us to gasification. While there he developed his stratified downdraft
gasifier concepts. (I remember years of skepticism about TLUD's and whether
they would ever be adopted.) 

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Subject: Dr. Tom Reed: The Father of Clean Burning?

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Well, Tom is certainly one of a small group including Paal Wendelbo and Ron
Larson who started making "Tier 4" stoves in the 1980's. I think of Tom when
I light his wonderful forced draft TLUD camp stove which I do to demonstrate
a simple 'no smoke' stove. Tom's webpage says,"  In 1972 Tom Reed became
concerned about the energy and fuel futures of the U.S. and began working on
alternate fuels on the side while working at MIT in the field of solid state
research. He was the first person to use alcohol blends during this period
and when he wrote "Methanol - A Clean Fuel for the 21st century", for
Science magazine, it changed his career. In this article he said that for
the short term methanol would be made from natural gas, but in the long term
biomass could supply our needs forever.

Looking out of the ARC office windows, the rural Oregon road that curves
past the campus is lined with 100 foot tall trees and the forest, even after
decades of logging, is immense. Learning how to cleanly combust wood seems
important here in the US as it does in other countries. Sustainably
harvested energy is only amazing if it does no harm when burned and complete
combustion opens a carbon neutral alternative that may be necessary in all
sorts of applications.

How close is the complete combustion of biomass? Pellet stoves, industrial
burners, and forced draft in general gets pretty close. Scrubbing the
remaining emissions gets closer. In the cook stove world progress has been
faster than I imagined as back yard R&D coupled with university analysis,
supported by the DOE and EPA, inches science closer to the zero emission
goal. As I envision the steps needed to complete the understanding leading
to complete combustion, I'm thinking that reaching the goal is almost
inevitable, with thanks to true believers like Dr. Tom Reed who helped to
start the ball rolling.

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