Teru Talk Newsletter
Volume III, Issue
13, April 1,
2013
Teru Talk by Michael
Theroux (pronounced
"Terú")
Teru's Trash Talk
With the
rampant availability of New
Projects in the Waste
Conversion sector, we
thought it might be helpful
to share just a few of the
many Interviews we've been
on recently. Here's a
sampling, excerpted from
Teru's Daily
Life:
Intergalactic
Waste, Inc.
Looking
like nothing more than an
unrestrained blob of Lime
Jell-O (with a tie), the
Obfustican motioned to
something resembling a
chair:
“Alright,
Mr. Teru, thank you for
beaming up for this
interview today. You are
aware of our
conglomerate’s efforts
to turn your planet’s
used "nappies" (baby
diapers) into
10th
generation
trans-space fuels using
advanced
transmogrification. You
have indicated that you are
interested in assisting
with our commercialization
with strategic planning and
development, and have
experience with the
Commerce Clause. As you
know, there have been
recent attempts to stop
intergalactic bulk waste
transport. How can you
personally assist our
endeavors?”
Termites
R Us,
Associated
A
spokes-bug for the Swarm
stepped onto the tiny
platform they’d setup in
front of the human-sized
megaphone, wriggled
antennae in preparation,
and presented their
difficulty:
“As
you know by now, Mr.
Teru, our Wood
Deconstruction
Association represents
all races of North
American termites. We
are under extreme
pressure these days to
Give It Up for the
greater good of
biofuels, with our
economy being gutted for
science so to speak. We
consider our wood
breakdown intestinal
flora to be proprietary,
and are seeking patent
protection. Governmental
researchers have in our
opinion been practicing
industrial piracy and
have forcefully obtained
samples of our precious
formula, a painful
procedure at best. Can
you provide
guidance?”
Redwoods-to-Biodiesel
Corporation
.
Standing
at an impressive 13 foot,
the Blue Ox spoke for his
company's co-founder Mr.
Bunyan, who lounged against
a near-by stump:
“We
have been slicing and
dicing these Big Trees
long before it was no
longer fashionable. You
claim to have a broad
knowledge of
AgroForestry, and an
understanding of the
complexities surrounding
use of a National Symbol
to make more biodiesel
to fuel our logging
trucks so we can receive
Global Certification to
sustainably harvest more
trees. Mr. Teru, we’d
like to popularize the
concept of conversion of
the public’s redwoods
for our fuel supply and
feel you can assist us.
What's the reach of your
News
Service?"
MicroTD
Conversion Ltd
.
Against
the back-drop of a
veritable Tsunami of Trash
coming in at an alarming
40,000 tons per day, every
day, the new company was
convinced they had the Only
True Answer:
"This
pocket-sized Thermal
Discombobulator converts
precisely One Pound of
any form of mixed
municipal solid waste
into a combustible
vapor, a form as you
know Mr. Teru, is quite
acceptable within the
fuel systems of most
advanced hyper-hybrid
defragulator-equipped
vehicles. Now that there
are at least three such
cars on the road and
more coming every day,
we hope to equip
everyone in this
Metropolis with their
very own TD unit.
Zip-zap, and our trash
problems are solved
(mind your fingers
there, son). So, when
can you
start?"
Our
global Waste Conversion
future's so bright, I gotta
wear tinted Safety
Goggles!
Hey
Rube!
Happy
April Fool's
Day, everyone! Now,
back to
woik.
The
Week's News
Alliance
Federated Plasma Waste to
Energy Project Proposed for
Saipan
Wisconsin-based renewable
energy and infrastructure
company Alliance Federated
Energy (AFE) is proposing a
plasma gasification waste to
energy project for the island
of Saipan, according to a
report in the Saipan Tribune
today.
03/29/2013
Carrefour
Trials Food Waste Sourced
Biomethane to Fuel
Supermarket
Lorries
French grocery giant Carrefour
Group has announced that it is
now testing its first fleet of
biomethane fueled lorries
(delivery trucks) with the
biofuel generated from
anaerobic digestion of food
waste from its stores.
03/29/2013
CEC Approves
Amendment of Delta Diablo
Biosolids to Energy
Contract
The California Energy
Commission (CEC) heard as item
5 and approved staff's
recommendation to amend the
Delta Diablo Sanitation
District's 2011 grant award
contract 500-10-034 during its
March 20, 2013 business
meeting.
03/29/2013
Vista Starts
Construction on Pilot Plant
for Waste Gasification to
Energy
Colorado based Vista
International Technologies Inc.
(VITI) has announced that it
has started construction on its
waste conversion to energy
pilot facility in an
undisclosed location in the
northeastern United States.
03/28/2013
Myriant and
Bayegan Collaborate to
Commercialize Bio-Sourced
Chemicals
Massachusetts based Myriant
Corporation has announced a new
collaborative agreement with
the Turkish chemical production
and trading company Bayegan
Group.
03/28/2013
DECC
Releases UK's Heat Strategy
to Reduce Carbon
Emissions
The United Kingdom (UK)
Department of Energy and
Climate Change (DECC) has
announced publication of the
government's Heat Strategy as
the most recent Action Plan of
the overall Renewable Heat
Incentive (RHI).
03/28/2013
University
of Georgia Researchers Tame
Ocean Heat Vent CO2 Eating
Bacteria
The University of Georgia has
announced that Michael Adams
and his team at the Bioenergy
Systems Institute in
collaboration with North
Carolina State University's
Professor Bob Kelly have
succeeded in harnessing an
ocean heat vent thermophyllic
bacterium that feeds on carbon
dioxide.
03/28/2013
BioNitrogen
Partners with Alberta Co-Op
for Biomass to Urea
Feasibility
Study
The Florida woody waste
conversion company BioNitrogen
has announced a partnering
agreement with Canada's Battle
River Agri-Ventures Co-Op
(BRAV-C) to assess the
feasibility of one or more
biomass to urea plants in
Alberta.
03/27/2013
GS Caltex to
Commercialize Biobutanol
Production in South Korea in
2013
Global Post coverage of South
Korean Yonhap News Agency news
reports that GC Caltex is on
track for commercial scale
production of bio-sourced
butanol fuel this year in its
biorefinery in South Korea.
03/27/2013
S4CO2 and
Quinlan Agree to JV for
Shrimp Waste to Co-Products
Facility
Canadian waste to co-products
development company
Solutions4CO2, Inc. (S4CO2),
has announced a Project
Development Agreement (PDA)
with Quinlan Brothers Ltd. to
build a waste to co-products
facility to extract oil
containing eicosapentaenoic
acid (EPA), docosahexaenoic
acid (DHA) and astaxanthin from
Quinlan's waste streams.
03/27/2013
Canada's
2013 Economic Action Plan
Includes $325MM for Clean
Tech
The Honorable Jim Flaherty,
Minister of Finance, announced
the Canadian Government's 2013
budget this past week and
detailed how the government's
Economic Action Plan is
intended to build on the Harper
Government's "record for
delivering results."
03/26/2013
UK Green
Investment Bank Funds
Bioenergy Center for
Cambridge U
Hospitals
The UK Green
Investment Bank (GIB) has
announced that it will provide
£18m in funding towards a new
energy innovation center for
Cambridge University Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust.
03/25/2013
Welsh
Government Releases Report
on End Destinations of
Recyclates
An
assessment of where Welsh
recyclates go for
reprocessing was
commissioned by Alice
Maxwell-Lyte, Waste Strategy
Advisor of the Welsh
Government
, and the final
report prepared by SKM
Environs
was
just released
entitled
Dry Recycling End
Destinations, a Report
for Local Authorities in
Wales.03/25/2013
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