Wood Gasification: Gasification 101 - Module 3

[relicright]

I'm sad to see you went from trying to inform the public how to make gasification to just trying to make money off it.

[MrShanoz]

video is great ,

please check out mine too i have two and a few funny ones that make yuour jaw hurt

[Indygoguy]

The only cost effective use of gasification today is in the wood pellet stoves. They burn the wood at a high enough temperature to burn most of the combustion gases as well. Gasification as a means of producing a different fuel from biomass instead of burning it directly is just too expensive. Fossil fuels are still much cheaper when all the expenses of gasification are taken in to account.

[cinndave]

Sorry. Foreign photojournalists aren't allowed in :-(

I don't remember where I read about it, but I also read that all the streets outside Pyongyang are completely empty, except for the overcrowded public transportation vehicles that are decades old. They look a lot like those streamlined buses from the 1960's.

[cinndave]

@pleabargain Biogas buses are still used in North Korea today in the absence of oil.

[klhudson1957]

This is awesome. I have been interested in this process for a long time. I envision landfills being "mined" to produce gas.

[cinndave]

@klhudson1957 The newest landfills are bigger, making it economical to capture the methane from the decomposition instead of just venting it off like they used to, then use it like natural gas in a power plant nearby. One dump can make about enough electricity to power a suburban town.