This year’s “green” panel at the 2010 GAS Conference in Louisville, KY included Eddie Bernard as Moderator with Guest Speakers Charlie Correll, the pioneer innovator of recuperated furnaces, Douglas Ohm expert equipment builder, and Jim Gosnell, a specialist in combustion control systems. Interesting comments from audience members, Christian Thornton, Pablo Soto and Hugh Jenkins. Please comment on our forum to keep the conversation going.
With the rising cost of gases, a discussion about where the glass community
will be looking for its next energy source and how we will get there is well
overdue. It is with great pleasure that I send the following invitation:The first ever Glass Studio Tech Discussion will be held at Penland School
of Crafts Feb 12-14, 2009. If you are interested in coming, we would love to
have your input in the conversation, and Penland will house you while you
are here for the discussion.
I wrote an article in the GAS Newsletter that will come out in teh fall regarding a road trip my friend Stevo and I went on, during which we visited 16 or 17 studios. We measured the exhaust gases, temperature and pressure and were able to tune lots of furnaces to reduce consumption, emissions, noise, and cost. I don’t have much time right now to type in all teh details, but check out the GAS newsletter in my technical article titled, “Road Trip.”
Eddie
