Posted on 09/28/2011 11:20:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (CBS Tampa) — Believe in the power of poop. It’s an initiative being pushed by one South Florida energy company, which is now on the edge of being approved in Fort Lauderdale to help generate home electricity.
Power Green Energy, a Pompano Beach start-up hoping to turn sludge from waste-water treatment plants into renewable electricity for the state, is awaiting word today from the Fort Lauderdale City Commission to approve a rezoning request that would implement the system by the middle of next year. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that the company has received the City Commission’s tentative approval to initiate operations that would feed into Florida Power & Light Co.’s power-lines by mid-2012.
“To be able offset energy use for waste-water facilities with renewable energy or renewable gas from the very waste going into the facility in the first place is the optimum solution,” Patrick Serfass, executive director for the American Biogas Council in Washington, told CBS Tampa.
The proposed initiative is another step toward creating additional energy sources for the state, its tentative goal projected at 4 megawatts of electricity, or about 1,000-plus homes powered by the waste-to-energy plan. Currently, similar examples are also taking place in North Carolina and Wisconsin.
“This is taking a negative and turning it into a positive for our environment,” PGE Co-Owner Amie Silverman said to the Sun-Sentinel.
One of the important ideas behind PGE’s waste-to-energy plan stems from the idea of it all, anaerobic digestion. Through this, class-B biosolids from a wastewater facility, containing pathogens and bacteria, are processed through a digester, a vessel used for breaking down biodegradable material. Once the biosolids have gone through the process, they are upgraded to class-A biosolids, free of pathogens, bacteria, and viruses.
Though the digestate system has been in place for some time now, the PGE program signals an enhanced need for greater usage, sharpening the state’s focus on how to grow alternative energy.
“Digesters need regularity,” Serfass said. “They need businesses generating organic waste to basically enter into a contract to allow someone to come by and regularly pick up waste.”
Calls made to the Fort Lauderdale City Commission were not immediately returned.
Democrats can finally back up their claim to be able to create renewable energy! The Dem’s are full of —it! LOL
If they got this to work, think how much renewable energy contained in 1 0bama speech.
if that is the case, DC ought to out perform all our nuke plamnts combined
> Obama is going to create a Department of Fecal Matters.
we can’t afford another Congress
“Calls made to the Fort Lauderdale City Commission were not immediately returned......”
And neither will the tax dollars wasted on this be returned...
The jokes almost write themselves.
The global warming theory has been running on poop for years.
With all of the Excrement coming out of the White House that might be the only renewable energy source that makes a profit.
Sounds alot like the MS lignite plant the power company is forcing down MS residents throats. We the customers have to pay for this plant even though we didn’t get to vote on whether we wanted it or not. Not to mention the family’s whose land was confiscated to build this monstrosity. This Florida plant is another load of crap (no pun intended). I’m sure the Florida power company customers will have to pay for this crap even though they are giving them the crap to run the darn thing. This is all tied in to Smart Growth (Agenda 21).
They’ve been trying this for decades.
Didn’t see any cost analysis...
“class-B biosolids from a wastewater facility, containing pathogens and bacteria, are processed through a digester, a vessel used for breaking down biodegradable material. Once the biosolids have gone through the process, they are upgraded to class-A biosolids, free of pathogens, bacteria, and viruses.”
“Class-A” turd?
Does the pile of amperes in the Oval Office know about this?
Dang! That will put ‘not worth a chit’ on the endangered list. We need a study...
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