Gasifier Experimenters Kit

Untitled DocumentA containerized building and transport strategy will create a desert set up involving next to zeroon site immaculate building. All components will arrive "pre-assembled" and only need to beset in place for a forklift and snap plumbed together. The superstructure will require more "bypiece" assembly of the hoops and cloth, but all these pieces just slide into fixture "poles holes"and the cloth is stretched like a shade awning.Likewise, this modular building strategy will make take down and clean up more of an effort of"truck loading" than object disassembly and loose part chasing.To expediate set up, maintenance and take down, we propose trucking the Shipyard forklift tothe desert for the combined use of the Mechabolic, Neverwas Haul and Serpent Motherprojects. The current DPW formal scheduling and "DPW only operators" make quickadjustments and fixes of unexpected problems very difficult to handle in an efficient manner. Itis difficult to schedule problems and fixes, and when clear long engagements are needed, DPWequipment is often stretched between several differnent projects and needs to break in themiddle of long projects to go tend to other needs. We therefore think it would be a goodinvestment to have our own forklift for discretionary use, 24/7. I will offer my 15,000lbcapacity forklift free of charge for use by these three projects, but request money to haul it thereand back.As for direct clean up, I believe the most important strategy is to have clear up front agreementson responsibilities, as well as publically stated "can't leave before x date" mutualunderstandings. Each sub project leader in the Mechabolic will have to agree to remain in thedesert until the entire project is back in the contianers, the site picked clean and magnetbroomed, with a final walk line survey. No individual decisions that clean up is "done", and it isok to leave now because the person is tired. All the project leaders have to stay until we can allsign off on the clean up effort together.Trash at the end should be a non-issue, as the Mechabolic eats trash for its food/fuel. The onlyreal expected "discard" is the charash byproduct of gasification, which we will use for terrapreta fertilizer in the lung terrariums. After the event, we want to leave this fertilizer for a localagricultural use, where the charash carbon will be sequestered by the plow and transformed intofuel for the next crop, not released as methane, nitrous oxide and CO2 during rotting, as wouldhave otherwise happened had the original trash just gone to the dump.Completing the biomass cycle in this manner, the Mechabolic project will operate with aquantifyable green house gas NEGATIVE footprint. The total Mechabolic effort will removemore CO2 and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than it will emit through poweringitself and its fire efforts. Such is the real and interesting "clean up" that the Mechabolic projectwill bring to the desert this year.http://whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/cleanup.html (2 of 3) [10/9/2008 08:18:12]