Charles Showalter's Blog (4)

1/2 price power for WV schools

With my power plants use of natural gas, it can be placed almost anywhere. Point production at the point of use saves transport costs and saves more money for the systems use. I think that if this system could be used near or at a school, it could also be used as a teaching tool. Teaching about carbon zero po… Continue

Added by Charles Showalter on October 3, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

FERC

With my project being low power 10.2 megawatts, and under 200,000 volts, the FERC is one I dont have to deal with. The FERC deals with power plants on land of 80 megawatts and higher range, so time will tell. Continue

Added by Charles Showalter on August 9, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Carbon zero coalmines?

Showalter Micropower could make the carbon out-put of a coal mine in West Virginia ZERO. I know it sounds crazy but with the use of natural gas and greenhouses this could happen. SMP would off-set 121 tons of C02 with replanting trees on the same coal site. The power 1/2 the price of GRID power saves money for the mine. The trees make the older parts of the mine a carbon sink. In 5 years Showalter Micropower would be carbon -ZERO-. In ten years the fuels that the mines use would be off-set by th… Continue

Added by Charles Showalter on June 28, 2009 at 11:30am — 7 Comments

Brown power for a greener world

Showalter Micropower Project would like to help remove a black mark on WV hills. What we would like to do for a mining company (any mining company in WV) is to produce 8 MW of power from natural gas and to sell that power for 1/2 price to the mining company. On peak of .04 per kw per hour. The kicker is we want to use the C02 from the natural gas gen-sets to fast grow trees to be replanted on the mined-out part of the strip. Trees would be free of charge to the minig company. (If they replant th… Continue

Added by Charles Showalter on June 1, 2009 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments