Middlebury College Biomass Gasification Plant

A short virtual tour of Middlebury College's biomass plant, which opened in January 2009.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• biomass
• gasification
• renewable
• energy
• sustainability
• environment
• alternative
• biofuel

[katheryncruz24]

Thanks! IT's great!

[latriciadetamore]

great clip .. keep it up thanks

[ndanatswa]

way to go Middlebury!! I would like to see a project like this at my school

[GaunletofDestruction]

@deskset24 You should check out Vitromeat.

[deskset24]

Mathematics is the core of all existence. No other language or human activity can compute or tell us the consequences of actions, or tell us how to optimize - minimize or maximize - pain, suffering, convenience, death, fear, work.

The $1M Peta X-Meat prize - to grow synthetic meat without growing a whole animal - is the single most important practical fundamental engineering problem in history: how to get life to minimally feed off other life.

I hope someone at Middlebury goes for it!

[deskset24]

Great work! You should be proud! However, don't get a feeling of self-superiority to those of us working and fighting to outlaw human reproduction and growing animals for meat. Outlawing human overpopulation and eating meat has infinitely greater benefit for the environment than even biomass, plus infinitely greater benefits for more important reasons than just the environment (animal rights, justice).

[deskset24]

@obstaclecorse Nobody is responsible for what other people think or how others act. The anti-environmentalists, the conservatives, the Demopubs and Republicrats are responsible for their own actions - not some hippy. I hate stupid folk & hippy music, too. It's got nothing to do with helping any cause. But I also hate gospel music, because of all that fantasy "god" bullshit.

Christian conservatives have been giving free-marketesr a bad name for years, but they're still active.

[jpourkav]

explain to me how leftover scraps from a lumber mill is not considered wood waste??? They are NOT cutting down trees to feed to the biomass gasifier you idiot.... btw gasifiers can use anything from trash to municipal waste... anything that came from a living thing can be turned into energy

[geothermal1000]

I know i am a PIA. Couple of questions is anyone wants to entertain an answer. Are the "bamboo Shoots" on VT Route 125 which i know at one point were in the plans to be used at the Biomass plant sterile? I ask because as a non-native vegetation one would hope the spread of such a fast grown plant would be absolutely controlled as to not overrun say...maple trees. 2nd question: is the ash being used as fertilizer introducing anything harmful into soil which could leach into water a source?thnx

[FathomDeep]

Biomass generators are considered carbon neutral by the EPA