Teru Talk Newsletter
Volume IV, Issue
24, June 16,
2014
Teru Talk by Michael
Theroux (pronounced
"Terú")
Teru's Trash Talk
Humans!
We're everywhere, and boy,
can we make a mess. Yet at
the same time, we are
endlessly inventive. When a
past mess has presented
itself, someone, somewhere
has figured out a way to
clean it up and if given
some elbow-room to work,
even make a buck or two in
the process. But there is
no Best Shoe that fits all
feet and there is no single
waste conversion process
that can effectively clean
up every mess. These days,
there is not a lack
of methods and technologies
suited to the jobs at hand.
The paths to returning
waste-sourced resources to
the marketplace are as
diverse as the types of
wastes and residuals that
must be
reclaimed.
How in
the wide world can anyone
know what clean-up tool
best fits a particular
waste conversion job? By
the time you realize the
size of the mess you need
to clean up, it’s a little
late to be searching the
world over for the proper
tools. I mean, it's not
like there's a catalog or
something that we can flip
through, to locate just the
best muck-converter. Uh -
wait a minute - what an
idea: a Waste Conversion
Catalogue!
Yeah, but
here's the problem: by the
time you make a list, it's
already obsolete. We Humans
move pretty fast, both
forward and backward, and
trying to pin down our
inventions and their
applications is rather like
herding cats. Oh, it's not
that the information isn't
Out There. In fact, that's
now the problem, this
constant flood of
Information. Yes, you can
come up with a list of
Digesters, or Pyrolyzers,
or any other target you
chase. What you'll get is a
snapshot, a still-life of
the moment, out of context
and lacking
depth.
For the
past four years, we've been
figuring out the best
methods to manage the daily
flood and post the news,
filtering a mind-boggling
amount of Waste Conversion
data. While we've been
picking the gems from the
gravel, we've been building
the Teru Talk machine. If
we've sent you a Courtesy
Notice that we published
News of your Happenings,
you know we are maintaining
detailed profiles of every
company, technology,
project, agency,
institution, and foundation
that is somehow engaged in
clean waste conversion.
Behind the enormous mound
of information you can find
along the halls of Teru
Talk are at least two
orders of magnitude more
detail, stuffed into our
simple database. The need
for that information is
stronger now than ever; now
it is time to grow Teru
Talk to meet that global
need.
The concept of a Circular
Economy requires that
whatever we discard must be
recovered and returned to
the flow. The cycle of
resource recovery is
a live process that
changes constantly. To
present an accurate picture
of the global state of our
industry requires that we
match that pace of that
change. That's what's
behind Teru Talk - we have
built the filtering
machine, and have developed
and are now maintaining a
Live Catalogue of Waste
Conversion, a suite of
profiles with timelines
that track the birth
and development of
global Resource
Recovery.
Hey
Rube!
Stay tuned,
dear readers. Teru Talk is
growing, incorporating more
sophisticated tools, attracting
new brains, seeking new
funding. Over the next few
months we'll keep you informed
and engaged in our progress,
the overall goal of which is to
serve up to our global audience
a Live Catalogue of Waste
Conversion. All Questions,
Concepts and Support are
Welcome.
This Week's Top Story
APP to
Supply Gasplasma® Technology
for Canadian Waste to Energy
Project
United
Kingdom based Advanced
Plasma Power (APP), has
announced signing an
agreement with Port Fuels
& Materials Services,
Inc to provide its
advanced thermal
conversion technology for
a new 20MW waste to
energy plant in the Port
of Hamilton, Canada.
06/10/2014
The
Week's News
Transact
Energy Secures First Site
for Zero Emissions Waste
Plant in
Mexico
Texas
based Transact Energy
Corp. has announced
securing through its
partners, the Puebla
Waste Consortium, the
first of two plant sites
in Puebla, Mexico to
construct its TransAct
Zero Emissions Waste
Optimization Plant ™
(Z.E.W.O.P.).
06/14/2014
Largest
Landfill Gas Cogeneration
Plant in France is
Officially
Open
United
Kingdom headquartered
Clarke Energy has
announced the official
opening of the new
Electr’od landfill
gas-powered cogeneration
plant in Plessis-Gassot,
France, for which Clarke
installed 10 of GE
Distributed Power’s
ecomagination qualified
Jenbacher gas engines.
06/14/2014
USDA Announces
BCAP Funding for Turning
Biomass Residues into
Energy
The US
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) has announced that
it will begin accepting
applications June 16,
2014 through July 14,
2014 from energy
facilities interested in
receiving forest or
agricultural residues to
generate clean energy.
06/14/2014
Bluesphere
Receives Air Permit for
North Carolina
Waste-to-Energy
Project
Bluesphere
has announced that
Mecklenburg County has
issued the company an air
emissions permit for its
5.2 MW waste-to-energy
project in Charlotte,
North Carolina.
06/13/2014
Cirque
Energy to Furnish and
Operate Biomass Gasification
Plant in
Texas
Michigan
based Cirque Energy, Inc
has announced signing an
agreement for the Midland
Biomass Energy Station
(MBES) project to install
a 2.5 megawatt (MW)
biomass gasification
power plant in Midland,
Texas.
06/11/2014
Edeniq
Validates Residual
Cellulosic Waste to Sugar
Conversion
Platform
Edeniq,
Inc has announced
successful performance of
its PATHWAY™ Pilot
Validation Facility in
Visalia, California at
the company's
headquarters.
06/11/2014
Covanta
Funds Fishing for Energy's
Marine Debris Education
Program
In honor
of World Oceans Day on
June 8, 2014, Fishing for
Energy has announced
$150,000 in grant support
from Covanta to support
projects that increase
public awareness of the
threat that derelict gear
(gear that is lost in the
ocean) and marine debris
pose to the marine
environment.
06/11/2014
Greenleaf
Power Secures $100 Million
to Acquire Biomass Power
Plants
California
based Greenleaf Power LLC
has announced the closing
of a $100 million growth
capital facility, the
proceeds of which will be
used to fund acquisitions
of biomass power plants.
06/10/2014
Biome
Research Confirms Economical
Manufacture of Bioplastics
from
Lignin
United
Kingdom based Biome
Bioplastics Ltd has
announced that research
has demonstrated the
feasibility of
economically extracting
organic chemicals from
lignin for the
manufacture of
bioplastics.
06/09/2014
Chinese
Institute Identifies
One-Step Conversion of
Biomass to
Hydrogen
A new
paper in Biotechnology
for Biofuels reports on
research out of the
Harbin Institute of
Technology in China that
provides a new microbial
pathway for conversion of
lignocellulosic biomass
to large volumes of
hydrogen.
06/09/2014
AGH Reviews
On-Line Wood Heating Fuel
Efficiency
Calculators
The
Alliance for Green Heat
(AGH) has released a
review of available
on-line tools for
calculating the
efficiency of wood heat
fuelled stoves and
appliances, with and
without catalytic
converters.
06/09/2014
The Week's Action
Items
Due
08/15/2014: Proposals for
Distributed Generation
Capacity to
SCE
Investor-owned
utility Southern
California Edison (SCE)
has issued its pilot
Distributed Generation
Solutions (“DGS”) Request
for Proposals (“RFP”) and
Alternative Distribution
Generation Solutions
(“ADGS”) Request for
Information (“RFI”).
06/13/2014
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