On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:37:28 +0800, Anand wrote in message <cacpy7sdb6dau-oh6dsrweapej7-uv0laourb469af9wzc9s...@mail.gmail.com>:
> Dear Stovers and Gasifiers, > just as Tom Reed became nostalgic, I too would like to go back into > the past. I obtained my Ph.D. in 1960 in plant physiology > and conducted research in Botany and agriculture till the 1990s.. In > the early part of the decade of 1990s, my daughter, Dr. Priyadarshini > Karve, introduced me to the subject of biomass based energy. She also > obtained a personal computer at that time, which I too used in my > spare time. In this way I got introduced to the group interested in > stoves. In 2003, I developed the technology of urban biogas plants > which used food waste as feedstock rather than dung. When I started > reporting this in seminars and conferences, the audience used to hoot > me out, because the textbooks said in those days that non-dung > substances could be fed into a biogas plant, but that they had to be > co-fermented with dung. People started believing me only after I > received the Ashden Award in 2006 for this discovery. And now, within > just 10 years of my discovery, urban biogas systems using food waste > as the sole feedstock have found worldwide acceptance. > Indian agriculture generates annually 800 million tons of waste > biomass. Indian cities generate annually 200 million tons of organic > waste. Taken together, this waste has more than three times as much > energy as the petroleum that India annually imports. Using the old > technologies of biogas, producer gas and coal gas, we can easily stop > importing petroleum altogether. As one of the participants in the > discussion on this topic mentioned, we now have much better > materials, catalysts, control systems etc., so that we can revive > these old technologies and make them work more efficiently. I have > been going around, giving lectures on this topic for the last one > year and I thought that this theme would be enthusiastically taken up > by the Indian scientists and engineers, but whomever I talked to, > came up with text book references and gems of traditional wisdom, > showing how it could not be done. I am now an old, retired scientist, > having no access to any modern workshop or laboratory. So the only > thing I can do is to appeal to the youngsteers to take up work on > this theme so that the problems of waste disposal and depleting > fossil fuels can both be simultaneously solved. > Yours A.D.Karve ..any reason you cannot run for e.g president India to do this? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
