[Biofuel] Waste-to-energy idea smells like success in Gold River - Victoria Times Colonist - 2006.09.19

2006-09-22 Thread econogics
The possibility of Gold River opening its arms to Vancouver's trash doesn't faze the up-Island village's mayor, not after running the idea through a sniff test. What Green Island Energy proposes to burn in its planned Gold River power plant is not raw garbage, but combustible waste that has been

Walt Patrick: Re: [biofuel] waste to energy on an industrial scale

2004-05-23 Thread Keith Addison
--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Walt Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:12 PM 5/22/04 +, you wrote: Turning Waste to methanol,pig iron glass slag: The High Temperature Waste Conversion Plant A renowned German manufacturer in the waste disposal market has developed a process

Re: [biofuel] waste to energy on an industrial scale

2004-05-23 Thread murdoch
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[biofuel] waste to energy on an industrial scale

2004-05-22 Thread ossamasbeard
Turning Waste to methanol,pig iron glass slag: The High Temperature Waste Conversion Plant A renowned German manufacturer in the waste disposal market has developed a process which converts organic and inorganic waste into valuable material. The system uses an innovative

[biofuel] Waste of energy

2002-05-01 Thread on7tim7
Using a still to obtain ethyl alcohol as fuel takes a lot of energy. You need to bring almost to boil ten gallons of liquid to obtain one gallon of alcohol. There are some sugars in the cooked mash that are not converted to alcohol and will be discarted. Some one knows a more efficient

Re: [biofuel] Waste of energy

2002-05-01 Thread Ken Provost
Using a still to obtain ethyl alcohol as fuel takes a lot of energy. You need to bring almost to boil ten gallons of liquid to obtain one gallon of alcohol. There are some sugars in the cooked mash that are not converted to alcohol and will be discarted. Some one knows a more efficient method?.

Re: [biofuel] Waste of energy

2002-05-01 Thread Harmon Seaver
Well, you could always use a solar still, and have free energy. And why would you discard the mash? That's pretty wasteful. You should be measuring the sugar content with a sacrometer in the first place so you don't put more in than will be converted. And then the spent mash is either fed

[biofuel] Waste of Energy

2001-07-12 Thread Keith Addison
Reason of a sort... http://www.reason.com:80/0107/ci.rb.waste.html Reason magazine -- July 2001 REASON * July 2001 Waste of Energy By RiShawn Biddle When Foster Wheeler Corp. secured financing for its $400 million trash-to-energy plant in Robbins, Illinois, the engineering concern barely