[Gasification] Where is Everyone?

[Doug]

On 03/01/17 11:34, Bob Stuart wrote:
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> Best Possible New Year, everyone.
>
> I arrived here after a period with wood heat but no electricity at 
> all, when I got interested in steam.  Thanks to all for a great 
> education on the options.  I am hoping to find a new situation with 
> younger people around where I can use a gasifier.  What I'd like to 
> try would be expensive if I wanted maximum efficiency, but where the 
> need for heat is high and power modest, I think a great simplification 
> might work.
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> With a turbocharger from a car, I think it would be easy to just 
> pressurize an airtight stove to produce a solid-fuel gas turbine.  I 
> presume that sticking a magnet on the cold end would let a coil pull 
> the power off. Raising the pressure would get more efficiency, but 
> drive up the bill for exotic materials.
>
> Best,
>
> Bob Stuart,
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> Spiritwood, SK
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> On 17-01-02 03:21 PM, Doug wrote:
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>> Hi Gasification Colleagues,
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>> It's 2017 already and Happy New Year to anyone still linked to this 
>> forum. I was surprised to see that no one has written anything since 
>> August 2016, but then, even I have had little to offer by way of 
>> interesting activity myself. With that in mind, I will post a 
>> Fluidyne Archive update once I take a few more photos.
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>> The trigger for this contact with the G.List, was a visit to me on 
>> the 30th December, from my friend of 31 years, Dr Ludo Lacrosse who 
>> is well known across  Asia for his work with energy projects. His 
>> office is in Bangkok, so a chance for us to catch up and gossip about 
>> all those people who have in the past  made contributions to gasified 
>> projects. Even though we work closely with people for years at times, 
>> they still drop out of sight and friendships put on the "back burner".
>>
>> So where are you all, and let's hear your 2017 opinions of renewable 
>> energy.
>>
>> Doug Williams,
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>> Fluidyne.
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