Middlebury College Biomass Gasification Plant

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

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

obstaclecorse - go study liberal arts and take a hike... biomass gasification can use garbage and not wood as a feedstock - wood is just a start ..go read a book jerk

WWII jet engines - pretty rad... self sustaining energy input

biomass gasification is good technology - the most difficult aspect of commercializing the chemical process is solids handling... 2" cubic wood sizes.. that's pretty good. any less than that will bridge in the biomass feed system... check out ThermoChem Recovery International two stage biomass gasifier system. In order to produce the endothermoci heat of RXN for syngas production, they use

Biomass generators are considered carbon neutral by the EPA

There is no safe level of dioxin exposure.
Check your current level of air pollution in the Am Lung Assoc' s State of the Air Report 2009 .
Biomass plants worsen air quality which causes more heart attacks, asthma, strokes, cancer , infant mortality, & shorten lifespans. Air pollution is a risk factor for breast cancer in women; African American infants are more likely to die from air pollution impacts than white kids. The bottom line is that everyone is at risk from air pollution.

I'm not 100% sure about that. I know that there is some carbon in the ash, but it's not just dumped into a landfill. It is turned into fertilizer by another company.

These woodchips are waste left over from furniture and home construction. You must be one of the envirojunkie treehuggers that give the rest of us real environmentalists a bad name. Your kind also make it difficult for the general public to take environmental concerns seriously. The world will not end if people keep cutting trees. In VT most tree cutting is managed and new trees are planted in the place of those harvested. Take a shower and shave your legs, I can smell you from here.

you just proved your ignorance.