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CIA Instant Investigation: Governor Weighs In on New Garbage Technology
Posted: Jun 15, 2012 9:20 AM <em class=”wnDate”>Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:20 PM EST</em>Updated: Jun 15, 2012 9:25 AM <em class=”wnDate”>Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:25 PM EST</em>
By Brooke Holmquist – email
CIA Instant Investigation: Governor Weighs In on New Garbage Technology
Updated: Thursday, June 14 2012 9:25 PM EDT2012-06-15 01:25:10 GMTJun 15, 2012 9:25 AM Jun 15, 2012 9:25 AM
GONZALES, Calif.- Power or pollution? That’s the big question when people talk about the future of garbage on the central coast. It’s called plasma gasification. An incinerator breaks down trash andMore >>
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GONZALES, Calif.- Power or pollution? That’s the big question when people talk about the future of garbage on the central coast.
It’s called plasma gasification. An incinerator breaks down trash and turns it into usable energy.
The waste is heated and converted into gas. Once the conversion process is over.
The clean gas is sent to low-emission engines that make it into energy. California’s talking about building a gasification plant in Gonzales.
But opponents say plasma gasification incineration costs too much and worry about pollution.
Opponents say the governor isn’t listening to his own advisory board, and supporting a plasma gasification plan.
The Center for Investigative Action went to work to find out if that’s true.
“We saw like a wink and a nod, yeah we’ll get this through.”
That’s why Margaret Serna-Bonetti and others went to meet with Governor Jerry Brown’s senior aids earlier this week.
They’re part of the outspoken opposition to the plasma gasification project for the Gonzales landfill.
They say a letter from Jerry Brown’s office supports something environmentally unsafe.
“Outrage that the Governor would intervene in a process like this that is state mandated,” said Bonetti.
Last month the new director of the CA Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery sent a letter to Plasco, the company the Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority hired to complete the “garbage into energy” facility.
The department told Plasco this proposed facility doesn’t meet the gasification requirements of renewable energy standards.
But in 2010, Governor Schwarzennegger’s adminstration told Plasco the project did meet the definition of a gasification facility.
With conflicting opinions, the Governor decided to weigh in.
“We feel that’s unfair to change the rules mid-way through, since the last administrator gave them the go ahead, but this is certainly not a carte blanche support for the project, it still has to go through all CEQUA evaluations,” said Elizabeth Ashford with the Governor’s office.
Opponents of the project said the Governor shouldn’t take sides especially since there is a complaint against the Solid Waste Authority for pushing this project forward, sitting on the attorney general’s desk.
Brown’s office said it’s not taking sides, “All were saying in this letter is acknowledge that you were given the go ahead in the past and so were going to be supportive of legislation to continue on a pilot basis but it’s important to meet all the standards and be highly scrutinized,” said Ashford.
The Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority is conducting studies for the first draft of the environmental impact report and Plasco is conducting tests at its facility in Canada.
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Other companies like Solena actually use the CO to create biofuels for ships (partnered with Maersk), aircraft (partnered with 15 international airlines including 9 in USA) and a plant in Gilmor which will also produce bio naptha . The emissions of the plant come from the steam used to generate electricity from the hydrogen gas fuel. Any sand or metal in the MSW feed mix are emitted from the bottom of the chamber as molten vitrified slag that can be used after crushing as road aggregate. The US Navy now uses plasma gasification on its carriers. The option of course is 100% recycling, which no country will ever achieve or landfill that creates methane which is 21 times more damaging to the planet than CO2. Then of course there is the toxic ash from mass burn incineration which constitutes almost 1/3 by weight of what was thermally converted.
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A technologically poorly written article. Plasma does not heat up or burn garbage, it gasifies it into plasma status at 4-8,000 deg C. How can you have particulates at the temperature of the surface of the sun ? Incineration needs air to be present indeed it increases air flow for mass-burn. Gasification takes place in the absence of air and is not incineration, it is conversion of matter into molecular form. The resultant Syngas is mainly hydrogen and CO which is scrubbed to leave the clean hydrogen as the source for generating steam to create electricity. |
