Gasification Plant

Here is an article about a the approval of a new power plant. It will daily convert 400 metric tons of trash to 21 megawatts of net electricity. The plant will be able to power about 19,000 homes.

The plant, proposed by PlascoEnergy Group, will use gasification (rather than more commonly used incineration) to generate electricity, and they’re hoping they can use a cooler gasification process to lower the cost to a competitive price. The plant will utilize plasma-torch technology to break down trash into syngas – a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide – which can be burned in turbines and engines to create electricity.

Check out the full article here Ottawa Building North America’s First Gasification Facility. I love to hear about these kinds of alternative energy solutions.

Tags: alternative energy, gasification

2 Comments to Gasification Plant

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   Trying to get a little traffic through the goroot website. I love the name dropping.
b/ on July 17th, 2008
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   @bslash I really didn’t thing about it like that but it could work that way. To be honest I was totally fascinated by the idea of powering 19,000 homes on garbage. This is similar to my love for earth worms. I think it’s really cool that the worms can take our garbage and make wonderful fertilizer out of it.

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Heath on July 17th, 2008

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