Re: [greenyes] Waste-to-Energy - thermal depolymerization

[Alan Muller <amuller@no.address>]

At 09:58 AM 3/11/2004 -0800, SPENDELOW Peter H wrote:
> To Nancy Meyer and the GRRN list-

[good comments on pyrolysis.]


> As a side note to Alan Muller of Green Delaware, I don't think that claims 
> of converting sewage or other wastes into energy implies any violation of 
> the laws of thermodynamics.  I think that the proponents are simply 
> implying that you can take a product that is not very valuable as a fuel, 
> and by putting it through some process, come up with products which are 
> much more valuable as fuels.  If only the reality of these operations was 
> as good as the claims and projections.....

That is what THEY would say when challenged.  But in fact they are often, 
if not usually, trying to get naive people to think that garbage goes in 
one end of the magic machine and electricity comes out the other.  One can 
say it is sad that
so many people are so ill-educated as to be susceptible to such 
arguments.....but there it is.

am

> Peter Spendelow
> Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
>
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> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:48:04 -0600
> To: greenyes@no.address
> From: Nancy Meyer Queen of All Good Things <nancy@no.address>
> Subject: Re: [greenyes] Waste-to-Energy
>
> Does anyone out there know about a company called CWT?  It has developed a
> process called thermal depolymerization (TDP) which converts organic waste
> to energy in the form of water, oil and coal.  The process basically
> duplicates natural processing of these materials, but in an ultra high-speed
> way.  The bio-based waste includes everything from human waste to animal
> byproducts to tires. ......
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