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Plant seeks to make landfills obsolete producing power from trash

Filed in archive Biomass on August 23, 2006

Plant seeks to make landfills obsolete producing power from trash
Ever since I started looking at renewable energy projects, the world has changed. Unsightly landfills and poor solid waste methodologies used to be a city's bane. With renewable energy developments, what used to be a health and phyto-sanitary concern could now be a power house waiting to happen.

Geoplasma (associated with Atlanta-based Jacoby Development Inc.) is a company that plans to use garbage as fuel and produce electricity. Taking a gasification approach (materials are converted to gas which is then used to turn turbines instead of the conventional approach of garbage being burnt, producing steam, and then turning the turbines to generate electricity). But why the name Geoplasma? Because that's what they intend to accomplish.

Geoplasma's technology involves generating heat hotter than the sun's surface to gasify a load of 3,000 metric tons of garbage per day. An arc between two electrodes will be formed and with high pressure air, will form plasma. Think of how lightning is made and the heat generated from the creation of lightning.

If that isn't electrifying enough, consider what their facility intends to deliver. Does 43,000 electrified homes and 4.3 Million tons of trash gone in 18 years impressive enough? I thought so too.

The best thing about this technology is the fact that it deals with solid waste and energy generation. Two issues that are becoming very important to human communities. Yes, the world continuously changes and this one will change the world even more.



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