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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dear Friends<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This is an interesting exchange. Note that the viability of the proposal is tied to the local cost of LPG. Where the cost of LPG is subsidised, it has the effect of rendering the viability of the alternative (rice hull gasification) less attractive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The adoption rate will be determined by the bottom line.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Ron,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Today I met a mycologist from Saigon who wants to make large quantities of rice hull biochar. His plan is to load this biochar with plant nutrients and AM fungal spores. When I asked what he planned to do with the syngas he would be generating, I immediately saw that he had no thought this through. His intention (like that of so many people) was simply to make biochar.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Today I sent him an email that read as follows:<br><br><i>It was so good meeting you again.<br>Here is a YouTube video of my gasifier:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnM5Itk7wlQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnM5Itk7wlQ</a></i><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><i>I can design for your research and biochar production center gasifiers of any size. But the ideal would be to use syngas (gasifier gas) in the place of bottled gas. When we replace bottled gas with syngas, we, no doubt, can get the highest possible value for the syngas. Making electricity from syngas would cost as much as $100,000 US in gasifier, gas filtration and other equipment. And such a costly venture would make relatively little money. How can you compete with cheap hydroelectric or cheap coal? But since syngas can provide the same high-quality heat as bottled gas, there is a fairly unlimited market before you. Very large quantities of biochar could be generated as a by-product of burning syngas in the place of bottled gas.<br><br>So the ideal would be to find several small businesses in Saigon that are now burning bottled gas. You could show them how to eliminate the use of bottled gas by means of small-scale gasification. They would get their gas for virtually nothing compared to what they are spending now, and you could set up a business arrangement with each producer where you could get their biochar for free. It's a big win for both sides.</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i>Also please confirm to me in writing what you were saying today about AM fungi not growing in a liquid medium such as we see in hydroponics and aquaponics.</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Paul Olivier<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>