High Tech Alternatives To Garbage Dumps!

POWER is working to rid our country of toxic landfills and to supplant the age old practice of burying garbage with the new waste to energy technologies. Through the employment of the new technologies, this country can permanently free itself from dependence on foreign oil and make toxic landfills a thing of the past. Landfills are the largest manmade source of methane gas emissions, roughly 8% of greenhouse gases. Here are just a few of the high tech alternatives to landfills that could be built in any industrial park in the Kankakee area.

1) Bio-fuels: Power Energy of America, Inc., Evansville, Indiana. www.powersenergyofamerica.com/index2.html. They are the parent company of Powers Energy 1 of Indiana building a garbage-to-ethanol plant in Lake County Indiana and Powers Energy 2 of Kentucky building a plant in Henderson County Kentucky. They are one of several companies who have licensed the technology from Ineos, a global company with $45 billion in annual sales. To read about Ineos go to http://www.ineosbio.com/50-Heritage_and_history.htm To learn more about this proven garbage-to-ethanol technology now operating in Fayetteville Arkansas, click here http://www.ineosbio.com/80-Video.htm

2) Bio-fuels: Agresti Biofuels, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind. www.agrestibiofuels.com. AgrestiBiofuels is organized to process Municipal Solid Waste or other specific cellulosic feed stock material into saleable materials including ethanol utilizing the "Titmas method." A variety of wastes can be used as-received, then sorted and recycled, and processed. They are building a plant in Pike County, Kentucky.

3) Bio-fuels: CleanTech Biofuels, Inc., St. Louis, Mo. www.cleantechbiofuels.net. They have licensed and developed a group of technologies that used together can process municipal garbage into usable energy products. They are building a plant in Chicago at a site of a garbage transfer station. The cellulosic biomass to be produced at the facility can be used for a variety of purposes, including producing electricity in existing coal-burning power plants. CleanTech has been approached by several utilities who desire to purchase the biomass from the Chicago plant for use in existing power plants.

4) Ethanol: Coskata, Inc., headquartered in Warrenville, IL. www.coskata.com. GM owns a significant share of this company. They convert municipal solid waste into ethanol. Gasification is combined with fermentation and separation to convert waste to ethanol for about a dollar per gallon. They are building a plant in Madison, Pa.

5) Plasma Arc Gasification: Geoplasma, LLC. (Jacoby Group) www.geoplasma.com. They are building a 3000 ton per day garbage processor which evaporates loads of garbage in 5 seconds in St. Lucie County, Fla. Output is electricity and building materials.

6) Thermal Depolymerization: Changing World Technologies, headquartered in Long Island, New York. www.changingworldtech.com. They use garbage to produce oil. Any carbon based product may be converted. It is estimated that 700 million tons of garbage will produce 4 billion barrels of oil annually. It converts waste products to oil in three hours using a process that takes nature hundreds of thousands of years to accomplish. They were featured in articles in Discovery Magazine, May of 03, Money Magazine June of 04 and they were a subject on CBS Evening News, Aug. 03. They have a plant in operation in Carthage, Mo.