[Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant

[Tom Miles]

Jim,

 

Just making light of public funding. 

 

The appropriate use of public funding is to offset risk on new technologies.
The funds are not free. Private companies often prefer to forgo public
funding simply because of the time and costs involved in obtaining the
funding and managing the project. I think US Department of Energy has not
been pleased with the results from their funding of the "Integrated
Biorefinery" pilot projects in general but it is a multimillion dollar
effort and there will be failures.

 

Range Fuels published very little about their process, even to funding
agencies. Early on I understood that it involved slow pyrolysis as a first
step. As such it presumably should have been a good process for making
synthesis gas and biochar. Perhaps like some other processes another company
will pick up the pieces and eventually make renewable fuels. 

 

Tom     

 

 

 

 

 

From: gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
[mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Leach
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 2:41 PM
To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant

 

Tom, not sure of the point you are making, but my point is that if one
country choses to eliminate funding for research and development and all of
the other countries that it competes against does not,  the county that
chose not to fund it will soon be forced to buy all of its hight technology
equipment and services from the other countries.  Over time, its currency
will decline and its standard of living will decline.  It is much wiser to
keep funding research and development and just try to get better at how you
do it.    

 

JAMES T. LEACH, P.E.

President

 

DANA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

32242 Paseo Adelanto, Suite D

San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675

Ph 949-496-6516

Fx 949-496-8133

Mobile 949-933-6518

 

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