[Terrapreta] Eureka!!! It Flared

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Kurt,

Did you see the question mark (?) at the end of the first thing I ASKED you, about your TLUD design? < There is another one.  It was a QUESTION, not a STATEMENT.  If I knew the answer, I would not have asked you.  Is it wrong to ask question, in you opinion, rather than claim understanding and MAKE a fallacious STATEMENT, showing you don't?  Ooops, more questions there.  Is this going to confuse you?

Continue to "flare off", good man.  You are doing the right thing for the environment with your TLUD gasifier.

As usual, Best Regards,

SKB
who is a very good BSCS from UofMN(IT), knows GNU too, has hence designed and implemented more simplicity in firmware, and absolutely hates secretive bloatware or any of it's other ilk from the minds a Microsoft.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: rukurt at westnet.com.au<mailto:rukurt at westnet.com.au> 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Eureka!!! It Flared


  Sean K. Barry wrote:
  > Hey Kurt,
  >  
  > Will the secondary air reduce the charcoal yield at the expense of 
  > releasing more flare-able gas?
  Well now, if you understood anything about TLUD gasifiers you'd realise 
  how wrong you are in that.
  >  
  > You may not give a crap about what I have say, but have you looked at 
  > or tried any kind of a down-draft gasifier design?  From what I've 
  > read, they produce no soot, nor smoke, and copious amounts of 
  > flare-able gas.  Some down-draft gasifiers produce clean enough gas (< 
  > 15 ppm tars and soot), that it can be used directly by an internal 
  > combustion engine, without a gas cleanup train between the gasifier 
  > and the engine.
  If I want clean tar free gas to run an engine I would doubtlessly use 
  such a gasifier.

   BUT in this situation I want charcoal from the simplest possible 
  device, without stinking up the general surroundings with smoke and 
  without sending CH4 into the atmosphere. I'm not presently interested in 
  the gas it produces, as an energy source. If I was it would be built 
  differently and more elaborately. So at present I just want to flare off 
  the gas.

  And I'm not interested in selling it to people, I place it into the 
  public domain, with a Gnu GPL type licence, if you like. Anybody can 
  build what I've done and on a number of scales, from a 20liter oil drum 
  to a 200 liter oil drum, to something much bigger. The stove developers 
  are building them from tincannium for use in 3rd world countries. And I 
  got my ideas from them.

  Anyone who uses this simple concept can make enough charcoal to improve 
  his garden, without having to pay inflated commercial prices and without 
  annoying his neighbours to any great extent.

  Kurt
  who isn't a BSc(IT) and hence more interested in simplicity than in 
  secretive bloatware.


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