Green Options » landfill gas http://greenoptions.com/tag/landfill-gas Posts tagged 'landfill gas' Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:22:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Waste Management Turns Landfill into Fuel Pump http://gas2.org/2009/11/06/waste-management-turns-landfill-into-fuel-pump/ http://gas2.org/2009/11/06/waste-management-turns-landfill-into-fuel-pump/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:22:44 +0000 Christopher DeMorro http://gas2.org/2009/11/06/waste-management-turns-landfill-into-fuel-pump/ As far as I am concerned, the two biggest problems facing humanity are kicking our addiction to oil, and figuring out a way to get rid of all our garbage without stuffing it into big, endless holes in the ground.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could kill two birds with one stone? One day, we might be able to, but for now at least one company is working on a way to fix their fuel woes within the confines of their own business.

Waste Management, one of the biggest garbage companies in the country, says it will be able to produce 13,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) daily from just one landfill in Northern California.

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]]> http://gas2.org/2009/11/06/waste-management-turns-landfill-into-fuel-pump/feed/ Landfill Biogas - The Rodney Dangerfield of Renewable Power http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/17/landfill-biogas-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-renewable-power/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/17/landfill-biogas-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-renewable-power/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:54:04 +0000 Susan Kraemer http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/17/landfill-biogas-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-renewable-power/

Some of the landfill gas at McCarty Road Landfill in Texas was captured for sale to a local utility, but the rest was just getting flared. Now, though, Ameresco Services captures that excess and sends it four miles through an underground pipeline to Anheuser-Busch brewery to meet their goal of getting 15 percent of their needs by 2010 promised a few years ago.

How much business is there to be made in capturing and using waste energy? Well, the company that developed the energy recycling waste-to-power system that helps fuel the biopower plant at the brewery has got to be one of the few companies in this economy to enjoy 47% growth over the last 5 years!

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/10/17/landfill-biogas-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-renewable-power/feed/ New Catalyx Landfill Gas Project Makes Nanofibers from Thin Air http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/07/new-catalyx-landfill-gas-project-makes-nanofibers-from-thin-air/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/07/new-catalyx-landfill-gas-project-makes-nanofibers-from-thin-air/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:32:00 +0000 Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/07/new-catalyx-landfill-gas-project-makes-nanofibers-from-thin-air/ Catalyx Nanotech, Inc. has started a pilot project to convert landfill gas to elemental carbon and hydrogen.

The concept sounds like spinning fabric out of thin air, but the science is rock solid.  Catalyx Nanotech, Inc., a relatively new player in the nanomaterials market, has completed its pilot project to manufacture nanofibers from landfill gas, using a patented cracking process to break down methane into soot free elemental carbon and hydrogen.  Based on Catalyx’s success with a similar production facility in Canada, it appears that yet another way to recycle old landfills is right around the corner.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/08/07/new-catalyx-landfill-gas-project-makes-nanofibers-from-thin-air/feed/ Fuel from Trash Will Power California Garbage Trucks http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/08/transportation-fuel-produced-from-trash-in-worlds-largest-plant-in-2009/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/08/transportation-fuel-produced-from-trash-in-worlds-largest-plant-in-2009/#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 07:40:12 +0000 Sarah Lozanova http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/08/transportation-fuel-produced-from-trash-in-worlds-largest-plant-in-2009/ landfill gas fuel300 garbage collection trucks in California will soon be fueled by the same trash that they haul. Landfill gas will be purified and liquefied, producing up to 13,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) daily.

This facility at Waste Management’s (WMI: NYSE) Altamont Landfill in Livermore, California will begin operation in 2009. It comes with a price tag of $15.5 million, with grants providing $1.4 million.

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Waste Management is the largest waste management company in North America and operates the largest US fleet of heavy-duty collection trucks. The company has a goal to reduce fleet emissions by 15% by 2020.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2008/05/08/transportation-fuel-produced-from-trash-in-worlds-largest-plant-in-2009/feed/ Chicago Generates Twice the Energy for a Third of the Carbon http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/14/chicago-generates-twice-the-energy-for-a-third-of-the-carbon-2/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/14/chicago-generates-twice-the-energy-for-a-third-of-the-carbon-2/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:06:36 +0000 Sarah Lozanova http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/14/chicago-generates-twice-the-energy-for-a-third-of-the-carbon-2/ chicago cogeneration energy efficiency carbon emissionsWhen generating electricity, roughly two-thirds of the energy is lost. Heat is created as a byproduct to spin turbines and later wastes away in cooling towers. Chicago has committed to produce 1.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity by 2010 with a process call combined heat and power or cogeneration, which finds use for the generated heat. This process can be over 90% efficient.

Excess heat can be used for dehumidification, heating water, and process heat. In an ideal world, the electricity and heating loads for the given application are similar. Hospitals, prisons, paper mills, oil refineries, waste water treatment centers, and even large towns can be good candidates for this technology. Your car can even be an example, with waste heat from the engine being used to warm the interior.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/14/chicago-generates-twice-the-energy-for-a-third-of-the-carbon-2/feed/ Green Business: Get rich, save the world, and party with rock stars http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/20/green-business-get-rich-save-the-world-and-party-with-rock-stars/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/20/green-business-get-rich-save-the-world-and-party-with-rock-stars/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:12:29 +0000 Noelle dEstries http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/20/green-business-get-rich-save-the-world-and-party-with-rock-stars/ jobsmcduck.jpgReuters has a cool story “Eco-millionaires see boom times ahead” where they ask four eco-entrepreneurs two simple questions- ‘how did you get rich’ and “is ‘the business of green’ a bubble?”. It shouldn’t be a surprise that none of them think green business is a bubble- more they saw it as the way that everything will eventually run and as of now a very rich source of business opportunity.

 

Green business has already made a lot of people rich and will only make more even richer (I’m working on being on that list). The four eco-entrepreneurs interviewed - Bruce Khouri, co-founder of Solar Integrated Technologies; Pedro Moura Cots, co-founder of EcoSecurities; David Scaysbrook, founder of Novera Energy; and Neil Eckert, the CEO of Climate Exchange - share some good bits of wisdom, jump over to the post for the full read, here’s a quick snip of the wind guy (close to my own heart- I have a sizeable piece of equity in my now-ass kicking startup Renewable Choice Energy, the nation’s leading provider of wind credits):

DAVID SCAYSBROOK, founder of Novera Energy, a 43-year old Australian, made 3 million pounds ($6 million) when he cashed in some of his shares in the wind power and landfill gas firm he founded in 1998. He has about 3 million pounds ($6 million) worth of shares invested in Novera and carbon cutter Camco International, which he advises.

Q: How did you get rich?

A: Three things had pushed up share valuations in the wind power industry, he said.

First, people were more worried about energy security and producing energy themselves. Second, the cost of traditional energy sources such as oil and gas had gone up. Third, tax breaks, subsidies and emissions caps had prompted even more conservative investors “to finally move off their perch”.

Q: Is ‘the business of green’ a bubble?

A: “The scale of investment to date is nothing compared to what is coming.

“The bubble aspect is ill-informed investors chasing pipe-dream technology. For example, there are hundreds of firms competing for the next generation of technology in solar panels but it won’t necessarily be the best technology that wins.”

]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/20/green-business-get-rich-save-the-world-and-party-with-rock-stars/feed/ University of New Hampshire piping in landfill gas to cut use of fossil fuels http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/15/university-of-new-hampshire-piping-in-landfill-gas-to-cut-use-of-fossil-fuels/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/15/university-of-new-hampshire-piping-in-landfill-gas-to-cut-use-of-fossil-fuels/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:33:58 +0000 Noelle dEstries http://planetsave.com/blog/2007/08/15/university-of-new-hampshire-piping-in-landfill-gas-to-cut-use-of-fossil-fuels/ unh-cheerleaders.jpg

A big “Go Wildcats!” to the University of New Hampshire, where I attended my freshmen year of college (96/97), for their switch to landfill gas as the campus’s primary energy source. They are building a pipeline from a nearby landfill that will reduce their use of fossil fuels by 85%.

Inside Greentech has the full scoop, here’s a quick bit…

The University of New Hampshire in Durham announced today that the campus will run primarily on gas piped in from Waste Management’s (NYSE: WMI) landfill in Rochester.

Construction is expected to start immediately on the EcoLine gas processing plant.

The University of New Hampshire is the first university in the nation to use landfill gas as its primary energy source.

The landfill gas will replace commercial natural gas as the primary fuel in UNH’s cogeneration plant, enabling UNH to receive 80 to 85 percent of its energy from a renewable source.

“By reducing the university’s dependence on fossil fuels and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, EcoLine is an environmentally and fiscally responsible initiative,” said UNH president Mark Huddleston.

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