We learn from a English publication the marvels of the TRASH TO ENERGY project at the Ada County Landfill "tyres" will be a fuel stock for this project. Dynamis Energy, Ada County and Idaho Power will present their case to the IPUC in the near term via case #IPC-E-11-25.
U.S: Gasification comes to Idaho
Idaho based waste gasification specialist, Waste Dynamis Energy is to design, build and operate a $60 million facility to convert MSW and waste tyres into electricity at Ada County's Hidden Hollow Landfill in Idaho.
According to the company, the agreement will see landfill property leased from the county for $1 a year for 20 years and will build a gasification plant capable of disposing of 250 tons (227 tonnes) of municipal waste, tyres and other types of solid waste per day.
We can only wonder about the "variances" and other schemes around clean air emissions Idaho DEQ will entertain in the name of progress. Between controlled burns, naturally occurring wildfires and just plain old pollution from vehicles and stationary sources in the valley how much worse the air quality will suffer in this valley when this project comes on line in 2014.
Jere says...
ReplyDeleteWhy do all the gross polluters come to Idaho? I am not what anyone could call a tree huger but where does it stop? With the failure of the NUKE dump site in Nevada, Idaho is and will remain the repository for worldwide radioactive waste. Frankly, I am in wonder at what gets approved by elected officials in the Great State of Idaho!
I love the smell of burnt rubber in the morning. It smells like "um" MONEY.
ReplyDeleteIdaho has been a "nuke dump site" since the National Reactor Test Site (NRTS) was established by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1949, at Scoville, Idaho between Idaho Falls and Arco. Over 50 nuclear reactors were developed and tested at NRTS. As at all AEC sites a lot of radioactive material was generated and buried or stored on site. Most of this happened before the Nevada storage site was even thought of. The NRTS is now the INL the AEC is now the DOE, and the waste from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's remains. It will take longer to clean this waste up than it did to create it. The clean up is slow because this waste is stable and well monitored, and the politicians would rather not address the issue with more money. Like it or not, this stuff isn't going away! What are we going to do? Nuke the whales?
ReplyDeleteWe have ICBM silos all over the USA with missiles long gone or about to be gone. If they will withstand anything but a direct hit surely they could be modified to hold nuclear waste materials.
ReplyDeleteIs this some of the free Chinese money left over from the electric bus project--
ReplyDeletewhat will Idaho Power pay for the electricity produced--Oh wait, what will I pay for the electricity produced. When can we have one in Nampa--tires and sugur beets and the Nampa Sewer plant smells should blend nicely with our emission free cars.
In the actual application before the IPUC
ReplyDelete#IPC-E-11-25 the rates vary from $77 to over $134/MWH the average is aout $92.35/MWH or roughly three times the going rate for spot market as listed on any commodity index such as Bloomberg.com here's a link http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/
In theory, generating power by burning in a 'closed' incinerator sounds promising. However, I don't trust the landfill operators. The last ten years there has been a serious odor problem in NW Boise near the dump, yet you'll never get the landfill operators to acknowledge there is a problem, let alone conduct any study of it. Incineration is potentially much more hazardous, but will the same attitude of green washing prevail?
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