[Terrapreta] Turkey Poo

[Michael Bailes]

Thanks Kelpie
Very interesting.
I am told BEST 's Australian technology would produce no more pollutants
than a diesel 4WD.

This report is a bit of a worry re the pollutants.

What are they doing with the turkey poo?
is it being made into charcoal or just incinerated?
M

>  as a target of environmental
> advocates who question the earth-friendliness of the operation.
> There is a Web site devoted to detailing
> the alleged environmental wrongs at the power
> plant, which detractors consider just another
> pollutant-spewing, old-technology incinerator dressed up in green
> clothing.
>
> A related issue is that the electricity is
> expensive, as called for in a utility contract
> that led to the plant's construction, and that it
> requires a lot of input for a rather small
> output. Marty Coyne of Platts Emissions Daily, a
> newsletter that analyzes issues related to the
> energy markets, said it would take 10
> waste-burning plants the size of the one here to
> equal the energy generated by one medium-size coal-fired plant.
>
> David Morris, vice president of the Institute for
> Local Self-Reliance, an advocacy group with
> offices in Minneapolis and Washington, said: "As
> a matter of public policy, it stinks. The problem
> is that it's using a resource in an inefficient
> way, and required huge subsidies to create a more
> inferior product than what was already being sold on the market."
>
>  What
> could be so offensive about burning turkey poop?
>
> "This is the only advancement in manure
> utilization since the manure spreader — that's
> 100-year-old technology," said Greg Langmo, a
> third-generation turkey farmer who lobbied for
> the plant, where he now works as a field manager.
>
> MThe Benson plant, then, has been of
> considerable help for farmers with a disposal problem.
>
> The plant was built by Fibrowatt, a
> Philadelphia-based company, with financial
> incentives from the State of Minnesota. And,
> without precedent in the United States, it is
> largely a test case, watched carefully because
> Fibrowatt has plans to expand its operation to other big poultry states.
>
> Officials at the company did not expect a
> perfectly smooth start but are surprised by the level of debate over the
> plant.
>
>
> But biomass burning, as it is called, produces
> its own pollutants. According to information in
> one of its federal air permits, the plant is a
> major source of particulate matter, sulfur
> dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and
> hydrogen sulfide. It was granted permission to
> operate because of the way the emissions are
> controlled and cleaned before being released into
> the air — "All projected impacts were well below
> Minnesota's health risk values," the permit says
> — but officials will continue monitoring it.
>
>
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