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Hey Lloyd they beat ya to it.

Started by Pat K, July 24, 2009, 03:06 AM NHFT

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July 24, 2009, 03:06 AM NHFT
Plant making gas from wood opens in Austria

(AFP) – Jun 24, 2009

GUESSING, Austria (AFP) — A new plant that produces gas from wood was opened in Austria on Wednesday, paving the way towards new possibilities in renewable energy.

According to its backers, the gas produced at the plant can be used in urban heating systems, for gas-powered cars or by power stations that work on gas.

"We still need fossil fuel of course, but this plant shows what is technically possible," Austria's Environment Minister Nikolas Berlakovich said at the plant's inauguration.

The facility, located in Guessing southeastern Austria, a town renowned for being entirely energy self-reliant, can produce some 100 cubic metres of bio-gas per hour -- enough to heat 150 homes on a cold winter's day.

"The gas produced has the same quality as natural gas," said Richard Zweiler, from the European Centre for Renewable Energy (EEE), which is behind the project.

Funded by the European Union, Switzerland and Austria, the plant took three years to move from the pilot phase to the industrial phase. The project cost a total eight million euros (11 million dollars).

The so-called Guessing model is now due to be copied "in Germany and Sweden, and on a larger scale," Martin Kaltschmitt, head of the German Biomass Research Centre (DBFZ), told AFP.

A plant able to produce between 20 and 25 megawatts of power -- about 25 times bigger than the Guessing project -- is already in the works in Goteborg, Sweden.

Lloyd Danforth

#1
July 24, 2009, 06:08 AM NHFT
Yeah!  150 years ago!

Pat McCotter

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July 24, 2009, 06:19 AM NHFT
Why don't they just say they don't know where it is instead of saying they're Guessing?!?!

KBCraig

#3
July 24, 2009, 01:36 PM NHFT
Quote from: Pat McCotter on July 24, 2009, 06:19 AM NHFT
Why don't they just say they don't know where it is instead of saying they're Guessing?!?!

Fucking Austrians!

Pat McCotter

#4
July 24, 2009, 03:23 PM NHFT
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on July 24, 2009, 06:08 AM NHFT
Yeah!  150 years ago!

Now back to wood gas. What was it happened 150 years ago, Lloyd?

Pat K

#5
July 24, 2009, 03:56 PM NHFT

Lloyd Danforth

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July 24, 2009, 04:07 PM NHFT
It was 1839.  I remember it like it was yesterday. We heard that some German guy invented Gasification.

Free libertarian

#7
July 24, 2009, 09:31 PM NHFT
Quote from: Lloyd Danforth on July 24, 2009, 04:07 PM NHFT
It was 1839.  I remember it like it was yesterday. We heard that some German guy invented Gasification.

Do you think it was the beer and sausage?
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