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In the closing scenes of the original Back to the Future , Doc Brown appears to use actual garbage as fuel for the flying DeLorean.
While some of today’s cars may come equipped with phone control and be 3D-printed, none are being manufactured with the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor yet. So finish that can of beer; your car still needs to run on overpriced gasoline.
All Power Labs uses the same symbol as Mr. Fusion ?
Hey I and others are using wood trash to power our vehicles, does that count.
Bob
I have an allpowerlabs power pallet . I built two charcoal gasifiers from junk . The charcoal gasifier needs less effort to run then Mr. Fusion . Making charcoal is hard . Still in process for lowering expectations for allpowerlabs power pallet .
Thank you. Glad to be back. It isn’t anything personal. 
Your post reminded me I forgot to mention, you can do fast pyrolysis with microwaves.
I’ve been around a couple of systems that generated a LOT of “liquid”. One chemist said it was pretty toxic though he didn’t elaborate what components. That chemist gave me a few gallons to play with as I was also doing biodiesel at the time. Let’s just say it stunk to high heaven and no one I know of has found a use for the dreaded “liquid”. Maybe skunk repellent.
They are oxygenated fuels with benzene and furan rings, that has high octane numbers.
In theory, you can put them in a car but you have to use them immediately, because they will polymerize over time.
HONEYWELL UOP
Engineering Support through a Joint Venture with Honeywell UOP
Ensyn has been at the forefront of large-scale fast thermal conversion since the 1980’s. Years of research, design, development and commercial operations by Ensyn’s multi-disciplinary engineering team has matured the RTP® technology and its products.
The pyrolysis oil, a light, clean-burning liquid produced by Envergent Technologies’ RTP® Rapid Thermal Processing technology, will be used to generate renewable electricity and heat for a co-located sawmill owned by Tolko Industries Ltd… The High North plant will also have the capability of producing a renewable resin ingredient that can be used in the manufacture of wood panel products.
“This project demonstrates how use of RTP technology can turn biomass such as wood residuals into a renewable source of energy while reducing a facility’s overall carbon footprint,” said Mark Reno, managing director for Honeywell’s Envergent Technologies joint venture. “We are proud to support High North to create the world’s largest fast pyrolysis plant for renewable heat and power generation.”
OTTAWA and VERNON, BC, June 7 /CNW/ - ENSYN TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND TOLKO INDUSTRIES LTD. announced today that they have formed a partnership to build the world’s largest commercial fast pyrolysis plant in High Level, Alberta. The partnership, High North BioResources Limited Partnership, has been formed to build and operate a plant capable of processing 400 bone dry tonnes of biomass per day into 85,000,000 litres (22.5 million U.S. gallons) of pyrolysis oil annually.
Organization: High North BioResources Limited Partnership
Project: High North RTP Project
Location: High Level, Alberta
CCEMC funding: $5 million
Total project value: $44.9 million
Estimated GHG emissions reduction over 10 years: 988,607
High North BioResources Limited Partnership is a 50/50 partnership created by Tolko Industries
Ltd. and Ensyn Technologies Inc. to carry out the High North RTP Project.
Tolko Industries Ltd. is a private, Canadian-owned forest products company. Tolko is a major
producer and marketer of lumber, veneer, plywood, oriented strand board, and kraft papers, with
manufacturing operations across Western Canada. Tolko owns and operates the sawmill in High
Level where the energy plant will be located.
Ensyn Technologies is the world leader in fast pyrolysis and the production of pyrolysis oil from
forestry and agricultural biomass. Since 1989 Ensyn’s technology has been used to produce
pyrolysis-oil for bio-energy and bio-chemical applications. Ensyn formed Envergent Technologies a
joint venture in 2008 with UOP a Honeywell company to deploy Ensyn’s RTP technology globally as
well as to develop a complementary technology to convert pyrolysis oil into transportation fuels.
The High North RTP Project will be the world’s largest commercial fast pyrolysis plant. The facility
will be capable of producing 75,000,000 litres (19.8 million U.S. gallons) of pyrolysis oil annually
from 400 tonnes per day of sawmill residual biomass that is currently being incinerated with
no energy recovery. This pyrolysis oil will be used to produce renewable energy in the form of
electricity and heat that will be used in Tolko’s sawmill at High Level. The renewable energy
produced will reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by displacing fossil fuel based energy. The
facility will also be capable of producing a renewable resin ingredient that can be used in the
manufacture of wood panel products. The project is expected to create over 100 jobs during
construction and approximately 20 continuing direct full time jobs.
July 18, 2016
The governments of Canada and Quebec announced in July they will provide a combined $76.5 million in funding to AE Côte-Nord Bioenergy Canada Inc. for the production of renewable fuel oil from forest residues at its Port-Cartier facility.
The project will employ Ensyn Corp.’s RTP (rapid thermal processing) fast pyrolysis process technology to convert woody biomass to 10.6 million gallons per year of a bio-oil product that, when upgraded to transportation fuels, will remove up to 70,000 tons of CO2-equivalent emissions per year. In March, the Quebec Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks reserved 170,000 green tons of forest residues from government forests to ensure feedstock supply for the project.
UK: Wood residue → wood pellet → old coal plants modified for biomass
Canada: Wood residue → pyrolysis oil → gas turbines
Interesting.
The same here in the Netherlands. And pellets coming from Canada by heavy oil ship…
The oil is the only wood power that gets renewable energy credits and is only used in boilers .
It could be used to power a container ship but then the renewable energy credit would be lost .
I think this process should be looked at If you absolutely needed to remove and not burn more forest than is being done . That so much forest is burning is not a problem and is called nature .
That you would want cut down and use a single one of these trees is something that needs to be fought against .
Title 40. Protection of Environment Chapter I. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Subchapter C. AIR PROGRAMS Part 80. REGULATION OF FUELS AND FUEL ADDITIVES Subpart M. Renewable Fuel Standard Section 80.1426. How are RINs generated and assigned to batches of renewable fuel?
D7 For renewable fuel oil that is heating oil as defined in paragraph (2) of the definition of heating oil in § 80.1401, renewable fuel producers and importers shall not generate RINs unless they have received affidavits from the final end user or users of the fuel oil
Some where in that huge plant is an electrical generator run on wood gas or one was on the schematic .
Henry what is this mean pattern you now express?
First you beat up on new member Malanguito that he dare do anything in his countries forests.
Now you link to Cow Dog.
And insist the forestry clean up of wild fire burnt tree is an interference with Nature.
DOW site introduction says helpful, friendly, experienced, USE WOOD for Power, advice.
So is it your intent to drive off any and all new members from the DOW with your Green-Spin?? Choke off the Beast thru attrition?
Put fear in the many, many readers to ever speak up, and ask, or contribute, for fear of being Henry’ed jumped?
If there was an unlike button . . . .
If we still had a Flag-post button . . . .
Instead as I’ve told you every time you make one of these Green-Spin insistent posts I will on my own, owned property, fire up my own chainsaw cut down one of my own, owned, taxed trees.
You will be the driving Tree-Killer. I; merely the executioner.
And of course Forum rules prevents me from fully in words expressing myself. I do not wish to be banned.
Steve Unruh
It is not that I have these opinions but that give warning that these opinions exist and are do have great effect on policy and that worse is coming . Having a policy is more important the having any understanding .
General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday on a range of issues regarding the Defense Department’s 2013 budget request, including future planning on operational energy (i.e. the strategic use of energy resources on the battlefield). At around 2:58:11 of the video, he discusses the security benefits of energy efficiency for the military, in terms of lives saved and operational agility, stating:
We lose soldiers, marines, notably airmen and soldiers, on the roads of Afghanistan going from FOB [forward operating base] to FOB…on resupply missions and so forth. So to the extent we can create autonoumous or semi-autonomous, in terms of energy consumption, power and energy organizations…net zero in terms of their consumption of power and energy, we’ll actually save lives, and become a lot more agile because we won’t be as traditional, linear [with our] line of communications.
Making charcoal is hard compared to starting a gasifier with charcoal .
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 12, 2020
Ms. Pingree introduced the following bill;
116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 5861
Agriculture Resilience Act,
To address the impact of climate change on agriculture, and for other purposes.
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “and renewable energy development” and inserting “, renewable energy development, and the reduction of carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide equivalent emissions”; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking “and renewable energy systems” and inserting “, renewable energy systems, and carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide equivalent gas emissions reductions”;
The bill did not become law .
Henry, you have quoted from various sources at length on this forum, often without contextual remarks. I don’t want to make a new rule about this, a lot of what you post is interesting… it’s just that the quotes are way too long, and your own words get lost in a sea of text. So I’ll just ask you nicely. I would appreciate two things from you:
a) start linking to your sources instead of quoting them directly. If something needs quoted make a brief reference (one or two sentences) and then a link for further reading.
b) Rephrase the information using YOUR words, so that people understand what you are trying to say and what you think. Don’t just drop links without context, connect it to the conversation.
Thanks for all of your contributions, we all appreciate your input. I’m just trying to make it easier to understand for all of us.
Burned-out tree roots are causing unexpected holes like this .
Just wanted to show picture of smoking hole in ground .
I think the State Forest will recover well as it was managed well .
Biochar Now, LLC is located in Loveland, CO, United States and is part of the Wholesale Sector Industry. Biochar Now, LLC has 18 total employees across all of its locations and generates $2.08 million in sales (USD).
Why did I mention this . The Forest service wanted to but could not with out losing their jobs .
The Forest service should get ownership of this company .
I did not want to say all that but you wanted me to explain it .
The last big one at the Harvard Forest site was in 1938. The storm was nicknamed the “Long Island Express” for the speed at which it tore through New York and into Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Unlike in the tropics, where many trees are battered but remain standing, trees in temperate climes tend to tip over or snap. The 1938 storm felled 70 percent of the timber in central New England, says Barker Plotkin, wiping out much of the eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) prominent in the region.
Workers in public programs, part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Great Depression, removed much of the fallen wood. The government’s newly created New England Timber Salvage Administration purchased logs, paying out a total of $8.3 million to landowners; much of that lumber would later go to the World War II effort, as well as to paper factories. Private companies also cut and paid for the fallen timber. After the clearing, a mix of hardwoods, such as red oak (Quercus rubra) and red maple (Acer rubrum), naturally replaced the pine forests.
Henry, I hate to nitpick, but you’re missing my point. Your post is disjointed and difficult to follow, mainly because you are just copying text from various places and dumping it all in the same block of text. For example:
These are not your words. They are from Biochar Now’s website, which you did not link or attribute.
These are also not your words. They are lifted from this article written by Amber Dance in 2019, which you did NOT link or attribute. I found it by Google searching some of the text.
Mixing together unattributed text copied from random articles with some of your own words is not only confusing, it is plagiarism; not something I appreciate on this site. If you didn’t write the words, you have to credit the ones who did or people will assume YOU wrote them, and that is wrong.
It’s fine to quote stuff, just make it look like a quote. You can use the quote button in the editor, which adds a “>” mark in front of the text, and appears like this:
This is a quote
Double quotes work fine too. “This is another quote” etc. But please, for all our sakes, make some distinction between your copied words and your original words. Thank you!!
FROM THE BOOK
Past and Present Energy Societies: How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies and Cultures
Nina Möllers
Karin Zachmann
" whereas the wood gas case during the War years mainly was a matter of using wood gas as automotive fuel or not using an automobile at all "
From the 1930’s to 1950 Japan supported wood gas for transportation . Their Buses were first wood gas vehicles I saw . Not counting trains or boats . A few wood gas buses are kept running for tourist .
Firewood Bus Moku-Chan Osaka Energy Museum
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tomy-Firewood-Bus-Moku-Chan-Osaka-Energy-Museum-Tomica-Diamond-Pet-/174442763154?nma=true&si=PEbmzwE7xuPs%2FzDv6UjuC8q7qvg%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
The first thing was the Hurricane before the beetle kill before the wild fires . Just all the trees lying on the ground awaiting an insurance adjuster . I just felt it was wrong .
I am not sure it was these trees or this hurricane .
" The Texas Forest Service said more than 400 thousand acres of pine and hardwood trees were either damaged or destroyed from Hurricane Rita. The value of the timber losses amounted to $833 million. The timber losses amounted to 533 million cubic feet or 81 percent of the state’s annual harvest of timber. "
" A new $115 million LaSalle Lumber Company LLC sawmill in the Central Louisiana community of Urania has been dedicated by Ruston-based Hunt Forest Products and British Columbia-based Tolko Industries. "
" LaSalle Lumber Company produced its first commercial shipment of lumber in March 2019 and began ramping up to full operation of two 10-hour shifts, four days a week. The sawmill will source approximately 850,000 tons of wood per year to produce about 200 million board feet of lumber annually. "
https://www.thejenatimes.net/articles/2017/04/10/urania-pellet-plant-has-new-owner
" acquisition out of bankruptcy of Louisiana Pellets (German Pellets of Louisiana) "
"Drax acquired the LaSalle BioEnergy plant in Urania in northern Louisiana in 2017. LaSalle BioEnergy is one of three U.S. pellet plants owned by Drax. The three plants produce a total of 1.5 million metric tons of sustainable biomass pellets a year. "
" Total wood pellet exports for the first nine months of 2020 reached 5.41 million metric tons at a value of $734.06 million, compared to 5.05 million metric tons at a value of $686.73 million exported during the same period of last year. "
I saw on the site someone had opened the back and roof of a bus that is fueled by wood and used it to haul timber . I do not recall if he did it for himself , for barter or for coin , maybe all three .
I can only get credit from netmetering a kW hour I produce is kW hour I do not have to pay for . The house is a lot warmer when I burn wood .
