What to do when your landfills are full?
What to do when you haven't started a landfill and you are on the Moon?
What, you want to go camping and you forgot that roll of paper.
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
The Prophet of Garbage
Joseph Longo's Plasma Converter turns our most vile and toxic trash into clean energy—and promises to make a relic of the landfill
By Michael Behar | March 2007
It sounds as if someone just dropped a tricycle into a meat grinder.
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Same as above, but from a blog in Panama where the technology is being used. Format a bit easier to read. - LRK-
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http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/20070223212011318
Plasma Converter turns garbage into energy Friday, February 23 2007 @ 09:20 PM EST
Contributed by: Don Winner
By Michael Behar - It sounds as if someone just dropped a tricycle into a meat grinder.
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Going to the Moon will need creative minds to come up with new ideas to handle the everyday needs, and engineers to make it happen.
Just make sure you do a patent search to make sure someone has not already thought of YOUR idea.
Be prepared to spend a few years perfecting the product.
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
The Prophet of Garbage
Joseph Longo's Plasma Converter turns our most vile and toxic trash into clean energy—and promises to make a relic of the landfill
By Michael Behar | March 2007
It sounds as if someone just dropped a tricycle into a meat grinder. I’m sitting inside a narrow conference room at a research facility in Bristol, Connecticut, chatting with Joseph Longo, the founder and CEO of Startech Environmental Corporation. As we munch on takeout Subway sandwiches, a plate-glass window is the only thing separating us from the adjacent lab, which contains a glowing caldera of “plasma” three times as hot as the surface of the sun. Every few minutes there’s a horrific clanking noise—grinding followed by a thunderous voomp, like the sound a gas barbecue makes when it first ignites.
“Is it supposed to do that?” I ask Longo nervously. “Yup,” he says. “That’s normal.”
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There are mandates in many places to reduce the amount of items going to landfill.
Buckminster Fuller had a lot of ideas, which he patented even if you could not accomplish the idea at the time.
He then made a living collecting royalties when someone else put the idea to work.
I suppose someone will have to pay to use the idea of a dry toilet on the Moon.
- LRK -
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
http://www.buckminster.info
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http://recoveredenergy.com/
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- LRK - 241 pages.
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http://www.recycle.ab.ca
Municipal Solid Waste
(MSW) Options:
Integrating Organics Management
and Residual Treatment/Disposal
April 2006
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7.2.3.4 Plasma Technology
Industrial applications of plasma arc technologies are well established and include electric arc furnaces used in the steel industry, and arc welding units used in the construction industry. Plasma technology is also used for treating hazardous waste. The technology involves relatively high capital and operating costs, but may offer some environmental advantages in certain applications. The environmental advantages include the ‘ultimate destruction’ of highly problematic hazardous materials such as PCBs and complex stable volatile organic compounds, due to the application of extremely high operating temperatures, and the resultant production of a vitrified inert ash.
Plasma arc processes use extremely high temperatures in an oxygen-starved environment to pyrolyze waste into simple molecules. A thermal plasma field is created by directing an electric current through a low pressure gas stream, thereby creating a stream of plasma at temperatures of 5,000 to 15,000°C. The by-products of the process are slags and combustible gases. The combustible gases are subsequently either combusted in an afterburner or treated by catalytic conversion.
Plasma may be either a net energy user or producer, depending on factors such as the nature of the waste, feedstock and scale of operation. In theory the sythetic gas produced by plasma technologies can be used in many applications, including fuel cells.
Two examples of companies offering plasma arc systems are “Pyrogenesis Inc.” and “Plasco Energy Group” (formerly RCL Plasma Inc.). Both companies claim to be able to treat processed MSW using plasma generators which create extreme heat and convert the waste into a synthetic gas, heat and an inert slag. The process forms a 1,000°C syngas composed of simple molecules such as H2, N2, CO, CO2, etc. This gas is then cleaned and combusted in an engine or turbine for energy recovery.
“Plasco” has been developing their patented Plasma Gasification Process (PGP) since 1973. According to the company, the gasification process itself has no air emissions, and the emissions from gas combustion in a Jenbacher engine fall well below the stringent CCME and Ontario A-7 guidelines. The City of Ottawa is considering the installation of a 75 tonne per day plant near its Trail Road landfill, to be owned and operated by “Plasco”. A Spanish waste management firm, “Hera”, has contracted for a 200 tonne per day “Plasco” facility in Barcelona, with an 85 tonne phase 1, and 115 tonne phase 2.
“Pyrogenesis” has operated their demonstration Plasma Resources Recovery System (PRRS) in Montreal since 2002, treating 25 to 100 kg/h. The units run for periods of several hours and not on a continuous basis. The unit has been tested on various Municipal Waste Integration Network / Recycling Council of Alberta Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Options: Integrating Organics Management and Residual Treatment/Disposal wastes including MSW, automobile shredder residue, tires, and hazardous waste. The information from the operation of this pilot unit has been used to scale up the design from 5 up to 200 tonnes per day. They are currently looking for a demonstration site for the technology, to scale the operation up to 20 tonnes/day. They also manufacture compact plasma gasification units, which can process over 5 tonnes per day of dry waste – plastic and paper. These units were developed under a contract from the US Navy, and one was installed on a “Carnival” cruise ship in 2003. These systems are scheduled for more cruise ships and possibly an aircraft carrier by 2007.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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