MicroCHP Energy Future

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Micro-CHP Energy Future

• Design Criteria
• Other Considerations
• Jock Gill
• Biomass Commodities Corporation
• November 07, 2007

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Design GoalsCommon Sense Energy FutureDo No Harm

• A system that is at least 85 efficient end to
  end
• A robust and resilient network with no single
  points of failure
• Based on conservation and efficiency first, and
  then on renewable, carbon neutral fuels with no
  contribution to global climate change
• Requires full life cycle accounting from
  construction to decommissioning, and including
  all waste disposal and handling
• Creates and strengthens opportunities for local
  and regional workforce development and increases
  the base of sustainable jobs with livable wages
  within the local community.
• Imposes no environmental or economic burdens or
  risks on future generations.

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Starting points

• If we agree on the six common sense tests, then
  we will want do our best to eliminate from our
  energy future all of the solutions that do not
  pass through this filter.
• Introduce concepts such as "fiber shed" and
  "energy shed" to help us understand our options
  more clearly
• Addressed the opportunity to put all of our land,
  both fields and forests, into full and active
  production. Do current proposals offer help for
  maintaining the North Countrys mixed landscape?
  
• What is the potential economic development impact
  of a strategy for keeping our energy dollars
  local and in the North Country?
• Discussed whether we should be a low value add
  natural resources exporter, sort of an energy
  colony for big urban centers to the south. Would
  it be better for the North Country to use its
  precious natural resources to create added value
  for its residents?

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Systems Thinking

• Provide Information on the loses, inefficiencies,
  in the generation distribution of electricity
• Discuss how to evaluate NET system efficiencies
  by looking at all of the parts and all of the
  steps
• Should we enforce a true accounting of the full
  costs associated with inefficient energy systems
  on those who chose electricity from the grid? Who
  should absorb the costs of the huge wastage the
  grid imposes?
• Should we reward those who use energy with 80
  system efficiency? What behaviors and outcomes do
  we, in the end, wish to provide incentives for?

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Perspectives Metrics

• Provided relevant examples and perspectives from
  other countries. Austria, for example, has 3,500
  biodigesters and on the order of 75 of its
  energy is renewable and green. We will do better
  if we help ourselves to imagine what could be
  possible.
• Develop new metrics for our future. It makes no
  sense to use metrics from our past -- the ones
  that got us where we are today -- to evaluate our
  future. For example, some approaches do not
  require that we do full life cycle accounting on
  all alternatives, including de-commissioning and
  waste handling.
• We need robust statistical analysis of possible
  future prices with average, high and low
  trajectories. My company has done this for
  Residual Oil and will not be surprised if it is
  in the 100 per barrel range in Q2 of 2008. Now
  it looks like it will before the end of 2007.

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ChallengesThinking Outside the Box

• Provided fair and balanced information on
  biofiber pellet fuels and their advantages. What
  would be the result if there were ten pelleting
  plants operating in Upstate NY, each making
  100,000 tons of pellets per year? A million tons
  of pellets has the heating energy/power of about
  115,000,000 gallons of 2 fuel oil.
• There are 44K Households in St. Lawrence County,
  burning an ave. of 800 gallons each 35.2 MM
  gallons of 2 oil.
• 35.2 MM gallons of heating oil 307,000 tons of
  pellets
• Requires 4 plants with 93K tons left to sell.
• This displaces 100 of the 2 oil used for home
  heating. This oil could be re-purposed to
  transportation.
• Provided detailed information on Micro-CHP
  Combined Heat Power in the 1 - 4 kW range.

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Micro-CHP Electranet

• Considering the above, it might be worthwhile to
  ask ourselves if we would be interested in a new
  approach Micro-Combined Heat Power. Would we
  be interested in Micro-CHP for our homes and
  participating in an Electranet concept as part of
  the North Countrys Energy Future?
• Electranet lthttp//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16127831/
  site/newsweek/gt
• Micro-CHP lthttp//www.enatec.com/English/pdf/Pres
  s_Release_September_2007_English.pdfgt
• Press release September 12, 2007 -- Enatec
  micro-cogen signs agreement with Bosch
  Thermotechnik , MTS and Rinnai. Development
  cooperation to achieve breakthrough for combined
  heat and power generation in the domestic sector.

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Micro-CHP

• A common sense energy future will require all of
  us to be
• Producers
• Distributors
• Consumers
• Only Combined Heat Power solutions enable this
  future.
• P2P internet
• Americas international competitiveness

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Recent Sunlight

• Biofiber pellets are green coal Stored solar
  energy, a useable form of recent sunlight. Fossil
  fuels are just ancient sunlight.
• Green Coal makes me think of steam as in engines.
  This leads to green coal powering steam engines
  for combined heat and power, perhaps even
  Micro-CHP.
• Now imagine a dual fuel engine steam from
  sunlight during the day and steam from biofieber
  green coal pellets at night.

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Steam Engines?
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320 kW
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A Stuart Turner 'Sirius' twin cylinder super
heated steam engine as used to power generator
behind enemy lines during World War II to enable
British agents to transmit messages to London,
mounted on aluminium base, overall 23.5cm high
70cm long 30.5cm deep, This engine was
discovered buried by a Belgian farmer and has
been completely restored at the museum where a
new boiler and water tank was constructed.
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Mesoscopic Steam Engine To provide the high
power-to-weight ratio required for the next
generation of electronics-dependent mobile
forces, Foster-Miller is developing a mesoscopic
(1 kW) steam engine capable of operating on
diesel or military JP-8 fuels. "Disposable"
batteries, which generally fill this need today,
are a logistical and environmental problem. As
the demands for soldier electric power continue
to increase with the development of advanced
systems, batteries are becoming an increasingly
less viable option. A high-performance meso-scale
heat engine running on commonly available fuel
could meet the electric power requirements for
the anticipated military systems.
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Infinia is preparing to launch a revolutionary
Solar Stirling Product that will make more power
and cost less than photovoltaic (PV) solar energy
systems.  Infinia's Solar Stirling Product
concentrates sunlight onto our 3 kW free-piston
Stirling engine to generate up to 9
megawatt-hours of electricity per year.  All
without creating any of the harmful greenhouse
gases emitted from most other forms of power
generation. lthttp//www.infiniacorp.com/applicatio
ns/clean_energy.htmgt
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Contact

• jock_at_biomasscommodities.com
• averill_at_biomasscommodities.com
• [phone] or [phone]
• P.O. Box 3 / Peacham / Vermont / 05862
• 753 Oblong Road / Williamstown / MA / 01267

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Biomass Commodities Corporation

• BCC provides fully automated fuel pellet heating
  systems and fuel for commercial and industrial
  buildings.
• The green and renewable pellet fuel we distribute
  from our facility in St. Johnsbury is priced at
  the equivalent of 2 fuel oil _at_ less than 2.00
  per gallon, FOB our dock - minimum 10 ton order.
• BCC has over twenty years of world wide
  experience in this field.
• For 2008, we are on track to increase our
  business by a factor of 5.
• Best Equipment, Best Fuel Price, Best Services

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BCC Projects

• Current installations projects in New England
  include
• All Souls Interfaith Gathering - Shelburne -
  500K BTU
• West River - assisted living complex - 1 MM BTU
• Twinfield School - 2.7 MM BTU retrofitted coal
  fired combustion system
• Dartmouth College - 2 MM BTU
• Additional applications under consideration
  include
• commercial laundries, Veterans hospital, graduate
  housing complex, a hydroponic green house and a
  manufacturing facility.

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Biofiber pellets

• Thermal energy
• Animal bedding
• Toxic spill remediation
• Ethanol
• Composition board

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Biofiber Ecology

• Culture
• Demand
• Supply
• Distribution

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Liquid Fuels

• Discuss how to analyze the choice between
  "replacing" one liquid fuel for transportation
  with another VS "dis-placing" liquid fuels from
  stationary applications. Dis-placed fuels may
  be repurposed for transportation -- after mileage
  rates have been raised and maximum savings have
  been achieved with plugin hybrids. Perhaps
  charged by electricity made at your home with
  your personal Micro-CHP system.
• How much liquid fuel do we really need for
  transportation if we ask a new question How can
  we minimize our liquid fuel requirements?
• Discuss uneven and unfair market conditions
  created by unequal and irrational subsidies that
  create "winners and losers". Can we agree that
  our Energy Future ought to a level playing field
  given reasonably equal whole systems results?
  Today's egregious ethanol subsidies hardly pass
  this simple test of fairness.

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Opportunities

• Corrosion proof universal biofiber residential
  systems.
• Scalable pelleting solutions.
• Curriculum development K - 16.
• Steam engine development.
• District CHP.
• Alternate uses for pellets?