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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 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) 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.
2)
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.
3)
Plasma Conversion: Startech Environmental, headquartered
in Oklahoma with a demo site in Wilton, CT. www.startech.net. They convert garbage into a high butane
hydrogen gas which breaks materials down by de-grouping the various
chemical compounds and converting them back to their elementary state.
They have a plant in Japan and several more under construction throughout
the world. They received Wall Street Journal's Technology
Innovation Award, "The Best and the Brightest." They were
featured on ABC Morning News in
April, 04.
4)
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. This country disposes of over 20 billion tons of garbage
per year. 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.
5)
Gasification: Ze-gen,
headquartered in Boston, Ma. www.ze-gen.com. They were founded in 2004. Their
technology focus is on changing the carbon content found in conventional
solid waste streams into large volumes of zero-emissions syngas to generate
electric.
6)
Biomass/gasification:
World Waste Technologies, headquartered in San Diego Ca.. www.worldwasteintl.com. Their first site is being built
in Anaheim Ca. on a Republic Landfill Site. Reduces waste by 90%
and sorts recyclables. They are presently building
4 plants in Northern California
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