Teru Talk Newsletter
Volume III, Issue
4, January 28,
2013
Teru Talk by Michael
Theroux (pronounced
"Terú")
Teru's Trash Talk
In
chasing Waste Conversion,
we spend a lot of time
trying to peek around
corners. There are useful
methods and technologies
for turning goo into gold
scattered all around the
globe. It's just not as
easy to spot 'em in eastern
India or the UAE, where
actual press releases are a
rarity and English
certainly isn't the First
Language. But oh, our
readers! The Teru Talk
Global Family feeds us all
sorts of interesting
tid-bits, and having eyes
on the foreign ground
really does help. Not that
Tales from the Field come
ready to post, it still
means tracking over time,
sometimes years, before we
figure out the Who, What,
and Where. Yet the most
important piece still is
trying to grab the end of
the string, the start of
the story, and that's where
our readers really make a
difference. "Hey! Look at
this … now, whaddaya think
of THAT!" is always a
welcome incoming
message.
It’s a
bright clear Northern
California day, but still,
those sandy beaches of
Costa Rica are awfully
enticing. A reader's
high-sign brought the
Safari Surf School to our
attention this week as they
crowd-source funding for
their on-site kitchen
grease to bus safari bus
biofuel project. When they
get the bugs worked out,
they want to post the plans
for their biodiesel module
on-line, for free. Happy
people, making a Business
out of being responsible
for their own waste and
energy; gotta love it. Now,
if they'll start up a small
AD unit for all those food
scraps … always something
else we can learn to do, it
seems.
We also
get seriously encouraged
when our neighboring
regions tackle the tough
decisions and make Real
Progress figuring out Waste
Conversion, from the
bucket-scale project of a
Costa Rican surf school to
the 400+ acre Integrated
Green Park in central Ohio
now under development.
Whether you're working on
one relatively simple yet
crucial waste to biofuel
conversion or starting to
tie everything together to
convert essentially all of
a region's waste back to
goods, the need is high and
the tools are available.
And the more we can see
what other good folks are
doing, the more likely we
are to not feel so Lone
Ranger-ish.
That's
the core premise of Teru
Talk: keep hunting down the
real world examples of a
global circular economy,
wag 'em under as many noses
as possible and get
Everyone thinking
Conversion instead of
Disposal.
Hey
Rube!
Wherever you are located around
this wet blue globe, there's
bound to be a need to stop
Trashing and start Converting.
Take the time to chat about
what might be accomplished in
your neighborhood, your region,
your state, your country. Watch
for those bold soldiers out
there on the front lines of
Waste Conversion (many these
days truly are Soldiers) and
help us shine a bit more light
on their entrepreneurial
exercises. Come on; it gets
lonely out there and it is
reassuring to know people of
common heart and mind are
noticing.
The
Week's News
Oregon DEQ
Posts Presentation on
Proposed Conversion
Technology
Rules
The
Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality (DEQ) has
posted a presentation to the
public addressing the agency's
Conversion Technology Rule
Development.
01/27/2013
Costa Rican
Surf School Developing
Closed Loop Biodiesel
System
The Safari Surf School located
in Nosara on the Pacific coast
of Costa Rica has announced a
biodiesel development and
implementation initiative.
01/26/2013
Ohio Energy
Coalition Webinar: Getting
Renewable Credit for CHP and
WHR
The US Department of Energy
(DOE) Midwest Clean Energy
Application Center Ohio
Coalition is hosting a free
webinar focused on how project
developers can gain maximum
credit under Ohio's renewable
energy and energy efficiency
portfolios for combined heat
and power (CHP) and waste heat
recovery (WHR).
01/25/2013
ACORE
Webinar: The Outlook for
Biofuels in
China
The American Council on
Renewable Energy (ACORE) is
hosting a webinar entitled "The
Outlook for Biofuels in China"
on Thursday, February 28, 2013
at 12:00pm, Eastern Standard
Time, as part of the
association's US-China Program.
01/25/2013
Canadian
Plastics Industry Assoc
Releases Waste Plastics to
Energy
Report
The Canadian Plastics Industry
Association (CPIA) has
announced release of its
commissioned study by the
School of Planning at Ontario's
University of Waterloo on the
value of converting
non-recycled plastics to
energy.
01/25/2013
Ros Roca
Imtech JV Gets Contract for
Biogas Facility at Shanks
Wakefield
Plant
The United Kingdom (UK) based
Chartered Institute for Waste
Management (CIWM) has announced
that the Ros Roca Imtech Joint
Venture (RRIJV) has been
awarded a £10m contract for an
anaerobic digestion (AD)
facility in Wakefield for
Shanks Waste Management Ltd.
01/24/2013
Team Gemini
Selects Colliers
International to Market Ohio
Green Energy
Park
Florida based sustainable
project design and development
company Team Gemini LLC has
announced selection of the
global real estate firm
Colliers International to
manage marketing aspects of the
proposed Gemini Synergy Center
Industrial Park in Grove City,
Ohio.
01/23/2013
UMass
Amherst Researcher Awarded
NSF CAREER Grant to Study
Biofuels
The University of Massachusetts
(UMass), Amherst has announced
that chemical engineer and
biofuels researcher Paul
Dauenhauer has been awarded a
$400,000, five year CAREER
grant by the National Science
Foundation (NSF).
01/23/2013
Flex
PowerStation Beats Strict
Emissions Standards for
Energy from
Methane
The investment firm Sail
Capital Partners and Flex Power
Generation, Inc have jointly
announced that independent
testing of the Flex
PowerStation FP250 system has
resulted in numbers lower than
the most stringent emissions
control standards for nitrogen
oxides (NOx).
01/23/2013
BIOX to
Restart Advanced Biodiesel
Production at Hamilton Plant
in
Ontario
Ontario, Canada based biodiesel
production company BIOX
Corporation has announced it
will resume production at its
67 million litre per year
capacity Hamilton facility
after stopping operations last
October.
01/22/2013
Viridor's
Peterborough Energy from
Waste Plant Gets City
Council
Go-Ahead
The United Kingdom (UK) based
waste management company
Viridor has announced that it
has received approval of the
company's Section 73
application from the
Peterborough City Council's
planning and environmental
protection committee to proceed
with development of a 85,000
tonne per year energy from
waste (EfW) facility.
01/22/2013
Imtech
Selected as Technology
Partner for 150MWe Swedish
Bioenergy
Plant
The Netherlands based technical
services provider Imtech N.V.
has announced receipt of around
$45 million euro in new orders
from the Swedish industrial
market encompassing core
competence of electrical,
mechanical, and energy
solutions.
01/21/2013
The Week's Action
Items
Due
04/16/2013: Outline
Application to BBSRC for
Biotech, Bioenergy
Funding
The United Kingdom's (UK)
Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council
(BBSRC) has announced
availability of a new £35
million fund established to
advance bioproducts research.
01/24/2013
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