On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:58:41 +1000, David wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> If their claim to have supplied these houses with heat and power > since 2010 is accurate this represents a handy technical achievement. > > http://www.volter.fi/home > > The next question would be what it costs and how much O&M is required ..could be they don't know yet, or more likely, they haven't decided yet, they say they started out in 2009 in the their eco village. But go ask them. ;o) ..30 kW electric and 80 kW thermal is a good easy size to learn how to do gasification business, nearly all successful gasifiers started out around this size, so you're up and going with a viable business before you start messing with other sizes, scaling down from here is _way_ different from scaling up from here. ..that said,I'm struggling to understand their gasifier, is it simply an open top hearth thing??? Their ash grate cone jack idea looks familiar. ;o) -- ..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/
