05-24-2008, 07:26 PM
I deal with guava every day so I've had lots of time spent in reflection concerning the environmental outcome connected with the Big Island. The species propagates either by fallen seed or by root spreading so the concept that some biologcal process will ever eliminate the plant is ridiculous. That money on research could have been better spent elsewhere because guava is here to stay and we're going to have to find a way to make it an actual 'crop' (along with the albesia).
Here's the solution (so of course it won't be considered since the evironmental lobby is absolutely insidious in terms of condemning us to a life of squalor).
Albesia is a soft wood which lends its self to be 'chipped' rather easily, hence it would be perfect in a process which produced 'presto logs.' Guava is hard and dense with a btu rating somewhere around oak (which is a lot -and I burned both and they appear comparable). So we have our 'softwood' which is used to create the initial fire necessay to heat a boiler and we have our 'hardwood' which is injected once the temperatures are sufficient for guava burning. Bottom-line ... high temperatures are possible by firing a boiler with these FUELS which could also burn a certain ratio of trash.
Of course the stack emissions need be scrubbed and the collected elements and compounds could be sold back to industry for various applications.
The boilers would create steam which would run turbins which in turn would run generators which would produce 660 VAC 3-phase electricity which could be distributed by Helco's existing lines.
This system of creating steam to fire boilers would mean jobs for many of the young people (who are compelled to leave the island every year, or worse yet, roam the streets wondering what to do). It would also create a logging industry to feed the boilers plus all the sundry industries which would be necessary to support such a system, i.e., management, engineering, trucking, administrative, maintainance, security, stack by-product jobs, et al, while dove-tailing nicely with the loomng refuse problem.
At some point, as the price of oil rallys, we're going to wish we had created such a basic system and it looks like the solution is either geothermal or a turbine generation system or both.
JayJay
Here's the solution (so of course it won't be considered since the evironmental lobby is absolutely insidious in terms of condemning us to a life of squalor).
Albesia is a soft wood which lends its self to be 'chipped' rather easily, hence it would be perfect in a process which produced 'presto logs.' Guava is hard and dense with a btu rating somewhere around oak (which is a lot -and I burned both and they appear comparable). So we have our 'softwood' which is used to create the initial fire necessay to heat a boiler and we have our 'hardwood' which is injected once the temperatures are sufficient for guava burning. Bottom-line ... high temperatures are possible by firing a boiler with these FUELS which could also burn a certain ratio of trash.
Of course the stack emissions need be scrubbed and the collected elements and compounds could be sold back to industry for various applications.
The boilers would create steam which would run turbins which in turn would run generators which would produce 660 VAC 3-phase electricity which could be distributed by Helco's existing lines.
This system of creating steam to fire boilers would mean jobs for many of the young people (who are compelled to leave the island every year, or worse yet, roam the streets wondering what to do). It would also create a logging industry to feed the boilers plus all the sundry industries which would be necessary to support such a system, i.e., management, engineering, trucking, administrative, maintainance, security, stack by-product jobs, et al, while dove-tailing nicely with the loomng refuse problem.
At some point, as the price of oil rallys, we're going to wish we had created such a basic system and it looks like the solution is either geothermal or a turbine generation system or both.
JayJay
JayJay