Waste to Energy projects, let's make this a priority!

Plasma+Biofuel+Electricity+ Recycling = Responsible Waste Management.

At 9:13am on July 2, 2009, daryll dickson said…
You want a solution to alternate energy here you go,
W2 energy has the solution.They can take waste and turn it into ENERGY.Think about it, you clean up landfills, toxic waste , low grade coal which cant be used for energy util know,medical waste, sewage , Municipal solid waste - Agricultural waste - Human and animal waste - Tires and plastics - Medical waste and put them into their reactor then NT Plasmatron Gasifier converts the feedstock into syngas (H2 + CO), and ash.
Hot syngas flashes steam which drives the SteamRay Rotary Steam Engine and makes electricity.
Syngas either burns in a boiler to make more electricity or is converted into diesel fuel, gasoline and/or JP8 jet fuel.
Flue gas bubbles through the SunFilter Algae Reactor.
SunFilter Algae Reactor consumes the CO2 - grows algae.
2nd stage of the SunFilter Algae Reactor dries the algae.
The Gasifier converts the dried algae into more syngas and electricity.
The ash is sold into the market as fertilizer.
Get that --simply put , 1 garbage in 2 broken down and 3 things happen , electric out one side ,fuel the other.Whats left over is ash which becomes high grade fertilizer. THE Co2 out put is neutral.The Co2 credits can then be sold on market.Is this not what the whole green thing is about.They use everything, nothing goes to waste, they help clean up ozone, they also help clean up all the waste we dont know what to do with.Once you get ride of the waste that land fill is now viable land.That toxic wate land is now viable.Comments questions. for more info here you go . CEO of company and their web site M. McLaren CEO
(519) 341-3185

At 9:22am on July 2, 2009, Robert Schultz said…
Plasma technology is a great solution to our landfill problems, but it doesn't solve everything. We will still need more power for homes and industry, fuel for transportation, and food, shelter, health care, jobs, etc. Building these Plasma facilities will be much more expensive than making landfills for garbage, but the benefits far outweigh the costs. I personally would prefer to have fertilizer made from plant and biological materials in a biochar system, and use tires, plastics, and other garbage to make asphalt and other industrial materials from the plasma created carbons.

Eliminating landfills through plasma recycling and energy generation will be a major step to cleaning up the mess our industrial societies have created. Together with Renewable Energy systems like, wind, solar, hydroelectric, tidal and geothermal, we can keep our air and water cleaner, to insure the livability of the planet for future generations.

Here are links to a few companies working with Plasma Technology

http://w2energy.com/main/

http://www.pyrogenesis.com/content_en/technologies/pawds.asp

http://www.purepowercorp.com/

Tags: biochar, energy, fuel, landfill, plasma, recycling, w2

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Permalink Reply by James Tracy on July 2, 2009 at 1:18pm: We can recycle everything, plasma even breaks down asbestos! Arc Plasma has already proven that for every 500k watts in, 800k watts can be made, with insulation or roadway material as a byproduct, from the trash we bury in the ground, and poisons our water and soil? http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/wsd/landfill/EngEnvApp.pdf

The Plasma torch is out of patent, anyone can use it. I am patenting microwave induced plasmafication, which costs less input energy, and uses the plasma, not plasmafied air. Plasma is the 4th state of matter, it is a free electron state. Compounds are held together by a valence bond, of charges, which when taken to a plasma state breaks these bonds, releasing the elements, solids and gases. The applications will have far reaching impact, and its time has come.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on July 3, 2009 at 5:01pm: One of my City Council members replied to my e-mail. Said that he will consider the information on the W2 Energy website. Hopefully we can get some discussion going in Spokane!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on July 5, 2009 at 1:28am: Hey Daryll, Hope you had a good 4th of July. Now, Let's get to work on our American Energy Independence!

Do you have a contact person with W2Energy? I see you have some more info for kwh/ton for various feed stocks. That sort of info is useful when we try to persuade our local government officials to consider plasma technology.

>>"W2 Energy's technology can produce approximately the following amounts of electricity from 1 ton of the following feedstocks:

plastics, tires, solid waste: 250 kwh / ton
anthracite coal: 350 kwh / ton
animal and human waste: 150 kwh / ton"<<

Some members of the Pickens Plan are very connected to their local government, others are looking for entrepreneurial opportunities. How can we connect W2Energy and/or Plasma Technology to interested parties with the tools and financial capability to make this happen? Are there programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Obama's Stimulus Bill) that can help finance these projects?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on July 6, 2009 at 4:05pm: Looks like Daryll Dickson was a 4th of July bottle rocket. Flew past shooting a trail of W2Energy material, burned out and disappeared.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on July 7, 2009 at 9:49pm: W2 Energy has some potential, will need to see some results from next step in scaling up the processes. Had some discussions with City Engineers, expressing concern about past efforts by other companies in the 1970's Oil Crisis. When trying to go from small scale tests to Municipality scale loads, handling a large stream of mixed wastes is much different from small tests of a more homogenized mix of material. As one said, "the less you have to handle the garbage during the process, the better your chances for success."; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on July 20, 2009 at 4:39pm: daryll dickson bottle rockets are flying at HistoryIsCalling.org

Sent 15 spam messages about W2 Energy...he's leaving vapor trails around all the social networking sites.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on July 22, 2009 at 8:47am: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22703/?nlid=2055

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Converting Garbage into Fuel
Waste Management, a large waste company, gives technology for gasifying trash a boost.
By Kevin Bullis - Technology Review, published by MIT

Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Last week, Houston's Waste Management, a major garbage-collection and -disposal company, announced a joint venture with InEnTec, a startup based in Richland, WA, to commercialize InEnTec's plasma-gasification technology.

Waste Management will fund the new venture, which will be called S4 Energy Solutions, as well as provide infrastructure and expertise from its waste-collecting and -processing businesses to make the technology economical. The company, which will operate and market plasma-gasification technologies, will be announcing specific projects to build facilities later this year. The involvement of Waste Management could signal that the technology, which has been more expensive than other waste-disposal options, is finally reaching a stage at which it can be practical. "Up until late last year, it was under the radar," says James Childress, the executive director of the Gasification Technologies Council. "Now the big players are finally getting involved in this."

InEnTec's technology, originally developed at MIT and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland, WA, uses a multiple high-temperature processes--including subjecting garbage to plasma arcs--to break down organic materials into syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Syngas can either be directly burned in gas turbines to produce electricity, or it can be converted into other fuels, including gasoline and ethanol. Metals and other inorganic materials in garbage can be isolated and recycled. The combination of high temperatures and an oxygen-poor environment that prevents the garbage from catching fire eliminates the production of dioxins and furans, two toxic chemicals produced during incineration.

That core technology has been proved, says Joseph Vaillancourt, managing director at Waste Management and the senior vice president of the new joint venture. What's kept it from being commercialized, he says, is the need to develop the processes for economically collecting and feeding waste into the system, and on the "back end" pairing the syngas produced with gas turbines for generating electricity, or other chemical processes for converting it into fuels. Vaillancourt says that Waste Management has already developed infrastructure for collecting and processing waste and for using heat from incinerators for generating electricity, and it will employ its "knowledge and wherewithal" to develop an "integrated system" using InEnTec's technology.

S4 Energy Solutions plans to market the first gasification units in specialized markets such as those concerned with the disposal of automobile shredder residue or medical waste, for which landfills often aren't an option, hence companies are willing to pay more to dispose of waste. Eventually, they could be used more generally for municipal solid waste, especially in rural towns and small cities that do not produce enough waste for cheaper incinerator technologies to be practical. The technology has the benefit of allowing customers to generate some of their own electricity, which could make it more affordable.

There may still be hurdles to commercial success. Childress notes that waste gasification may still face problems with local regulations. And companies using similar technologies have failed in the past. Nevertheless, some waste-gasification companies are reporting initial success. For example, Enerkem, based in Edmonton, Alberta, has opened a commercial facility to convert used utility poles into methanol and ethanol. It has signed an agreement with the city of Edmonton to process 100,000 tons of municipal solid waste a year for 25 years, although that's still a relatively small amount compared with other options for disposing of waste.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on August 8, 2009 at 3:35pm: Here's a video James Tracy posted on the Biochar group page.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on August 9, 2009 at 2:53pm: Gasification of coal is a much cleaner burning process. The CO2 can be captured and used to help plant growth, like the tree farms that Charles has planned in WV. Other systems use CO2 to grow algae, which is an excellent feedstock for making biodiesel.

Permalink Reply by Robert Schultz on August 14, 2009 at 9:16am: Exxon is getting into biodiesel market

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/business/energy-environment/14fue...

Algal biofuel, sometimes nicknamed oilgae by environmentalists, is a promising technology. Fuels derived from algae have molecular structures that are similar to petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and would be compatible with the existing transportation infrastructure, according to Exxon.

Continental Airlines, for example, has demonstrated the fuel’s viability in a test flight of an airplane powered in part by algae-based fuel.

The Pentagon has also been looking at alternative fuels, including algae, to reduce the military’s dependence on oil.

And while cost-effective mass production of algae has eluded researchers so far, it holds potential advantages over other sources of biofuels. Algae can be grown in areas not suited for food crops, using pools of brackish water or even farming them in seawater.

Algae also has another benefit, which could eventually help cut greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Like any plant, it needs carbon dioxide to grow. But Exxon and Synthetic Genomics hope to genetically engineer new strains of algae that can absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide — like that emitted by power plants, for example.

Exxon’s investment includes $300 million for in-house studies and “potentially more” than $300 million to Synthetic Genomics “if research and development milestones are successfully met,” Exxon said.; ▶ Reply to This