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Jim Taylor's Impact Speech |
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| The Vermont Gasifier Project Although we didn't know it at the time, the recycling system we created turned out to be the perfect complement for the new kind of biomass gasifier that was simultaneously undergoing years of testing in Burlington, Vermont. |
The US Dept. of Energy paid over $53 Million to develop and test this technology at Batelle Memorial Labs in a small pilot plant that was run for over 22,000 hours in a twenty-year test program. They used wood as feedstock, assuming that it was an abundant, renewable resource. When they scaled up to this commercial-scale demonstration plant, the big surprise after the normal bugs got worked out was that instead of handling 350 tons a day, it could handle more than 500 tons a day. |
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