Greetings David, Tom and list. David, I ONLY do "small scale" (nothing over 250 KwE) and let me tell you, the biggest problem is in setup, upfront start up, and real savings.
Many people simply don't have the upfront money to start a build, and once they do, they generally don't gain the full advantage of the system because, simply put, in a general term, "people are lazy by nature". It's easier (slacking) to pay someone else to do your dirty work, than save the money, and do it yourself. Garbage, electricity, gasoline, natural gas are good examples of "slacking" taking your weekly garbage to the local dump (country living), cord wood for heating, gasification for motive, solar & wind for electricity People value their "boob-tube time", or "at the lake time", and we can thank, the banks, visa, mastercard, and lending in general, for all of this ( plus our own stupidity for falling for it all)...... Greg Manning. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:10 PM, David Coote <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Tom. > > A very useful study would be identifying at good resolution the reasons > why small-scale CHP gasifiers fail technically and/or struggle > commercially. Once that's clearly established suitable focus can be brought > to bear on what is going wrong between pilot/demonstration and commercial > phases with a view to fixing the issues. I think the same could apply to > 2nd generation biofuels. > > Regards > > David > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- >> Fra: >> gasification-bounces@lists.**bioenergylists.org<[email protected]>[mailto: >> gasification-bounces@**lists.bioenergylists.org<[email protected]>] >> P? vegne af Tom Miles >> Sendt: 28. juni 2012 03:14 >> Til: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification' >> Emne: Re: [Gasification] Which of the gasifiers Tom listed are meeting >> Knoef's commercial criteria >> >> David, >> >> It looks like you have the makings of a survey. :-/ >> >> Harrie's criteria are good and would be difficult for most suppliers to >> meet. We want gasifiers to be as readily installed and operated as boilers. >> >> We should determine what needs to be done to get more suppliers over all >> of these hurdles. >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > Gasification@bioenergylists.**org <[email protected]> > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.**org/mailman/listinfo/**gasification_lists.** > bioenergylists.org<http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org> > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.**bioenergylists.org/<http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/> >
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