Comments on: California’s Flawed Landfill Gas Rule Precludes Waste-to-Energy Projects

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2011 01:37:00 +0000

I like batting clean up rather than lead off…

(I hope that makes sense, I pay little attention to baseball. ;o)

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:20:00 +0000

My understanding is that they are all too small to produce significant amounts on their own – so no one (or several) legislators would be that motivated, and that it is really the law of inertia that is at fault here. Bloom Energy is one company that might have some clout. They have to use gas piped from out of state, it would be much cheaper to use in state gas (esp waste gas like this)

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:16:00 +0000

When are you gonna come on board and write for us, Bob?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:56:00 +0000

True, but we’ve got these landfills already sitting there, ready to be tapped.

Later we can mine them.

The real solution is to sort (see Tina’s article on robotic sorting) and recycle as much as possible rather than to indiscriminately bury.

Waste Management, a very major player in trash, just purchased Wilmington Organic Recycling Center.

“The WORC is the only permitted in-vessel organics processing center in the Mid-Atlantic region, and processes — unloads, separates, mixes and grinds– 250 to 300 tons per day of organic waste from organic feedstock.

With a capacity of up to 600 tons per day, it’s the largest composting facility in the eastern United States.

The facility’s operations adds more than 200,000 tons to Waste Management’s current 1.7 million ton annual organics processing capacity. It also helps Waste Management expand organics recycling services in the region.”

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/waste-management-doubles-down-on-organic-recycling-with-composting-investment/16015

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:08:00 +0000

I’d like to know more.

Where are the big landfills which could produce significant amounts of usable biogas?

Who are the state legislators in these areas? Whose offices do we contact?

Who, if anyone, is opposing changing the law?

CA is running full speed ahead toward getting off of fossil fuels. It’s hard for me to imagine that this isn’t a law ready to die.

By: Seamus Dubh

Seamus Dubh — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:00:00 +0000

True enough, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t a feasible solution to a problem of legalities.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:28:00 +0000

Landfill operators typically do not have access to the kind of capital it takes to build power plants.

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:38:00 +0000

Composting of biodegradables does away with the need to capture GHGs like methane. as well as the high capital and maintenance costs of collection. It will also make available the valuable nutrients for soil amendments.

By: Seamus Dubh

Seamus Dubh — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:31:00 +0000

um’ why not just build more on-site power generation instead.
Takes care of the “excess” gas and creates more power for a power strapped state.