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Comments (13)
These things can be good neighbors. But there's no reason to suppose that it will go that way here.
Posted by Allan L. | December 11, 2010 12:12 PM
Seems like a load of ( c**p) put upon this neighborhood.Why is this?
Posted by Mike | December 11, 2010 1:51 PM
You might want to take a little time to research what an anaerobic digester is, Jack. It's not an incinerator.
Posted by Scott | December 11, 2010 5:11 PM
I know what it is. It takes methane gas out of rotting, foul-smelling food garbage and burns it. That's what incineration is -- when you burn something.
The methane used to catch fire in the garbage dumps in Jersey City and burn underground for years. I guess none of the environmentalists who howled about that realized that it was all good.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 11, 2010 5:27 PM
Anaerobic digestion uses micro-organisms to break down biodegradable material, including food waste. The process produces biogasses such as methane, which are used to fuel turbines which generate electricity. It's not an incinerator; it's an accelerated composting system and power plant.
Posted by scott | December 11, 2010 6:40 PM
Yes -- a plant that runs by burning the garbage gas. That's what incineration is -- burning.
Keep trying, though. I'm sure you're convincing somebody that this thing isn't a pig in a poke. But that somebody ain't me.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 11, 2010 6:48 PM
Hard to belive that rotting garbage being trucked into a facility in large amounts won't produce noxious odors. Anyone that says otherwise is simply lying..
Posted by Dave A. | December 11, 2010 7:06 PM
It may or may not be a pig in the poke, but there is no reason it should be one. There are a number of these installed and they woRk well.
Like all engineered systems, the proof is in the running, not the selling, so there are no guaranties. But odors mean contact wIth the atmosphere, meaning death to the organisms that run the show at the basic scale.
I never note a lot of odor from truckS used to pump septic systems, and that's essentially what we're talking here
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | December 12, 2010 9:35 AM
And this area of Sweden essentially provides all its gas needs from them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/science/earth/11fossil.html?ref=science
Posted by Anon Too | December 12, 2010 12:41 PM
Scott seems so much smarter than the rest of us ... Maybe he can explain how methane powers turbines without being burned.
Posted by Garage Wine | December 12, 2010 6:35 PM
About 20 years ago they tried the same thing in
Cully. Metro Metal recycling (a scrap yard) is the current resident. 5611 NE Columbia Blvd , There were huge piles of rotting leaves, grass, and more. Because it was all under big sheds and the process would be accelerated with rapid turnover by machines it wouldn't smell. Yeah right. When i would show houses for sale in the area -- one whiff and "We've decided we like Lents better."
Posted by concordbridge | December 12, 2010 8:33 PM
At the Columbia Blvd sewage treatment plant, there is a methane generator, from a similar process. Digested sewage off gasses the methane, which is burned to produce electricty. The process actually provides a significant amount of the electricity consumed by the plant. The proper analogy would be more like an internal combustion engine that generates the electricity.
One thing that does need to be addressed - methane is a fairly "dirty" gas, and needs to be filtered before it is burned. Otherwise, the engine will clog and be pretty inefficient.
Posted by umpire | December 13, 2010 12:36 PM
Scott seems so much smarter than the rest of us ... Maybe he can explain how methane powers turbines without being burned.
My furnace burns methane (natural gas, which is nearly 90 percent methane), but I don't think of it as an incinerator. Incinerators burn solid matter and leave behind ash. Burning gases ain't incinerating -- which is why in waste-management circles anaerobic digestion is explicitly viewed as an alternative to incineration, not a form of it. And it's why even hard-line environmental groups like Greenpease endorse it.
Posted by Pete | December 13, 2010 12:37 PM