Incineration — “High Tech”
NAB has learned through its research that there is no technology that is functional today that eliminates the dangerous toxins and particulate matter created by incineration. The danger of fire when incinerating biomass is not to be underestimated. See:
- [IN OUR BACKYARD--D.E. facility touted as high-tech & very green!] St. Paul Heat & Power Facility Pays $55,000 to Resolve Air Quality Violations, MPRNews, August 19, 2010.
- Evaluation of Various Solid Biomass Fuels Using Thermal Analysis & Gas Emission Tests, National Research Institute of Fire & Disaster, April 18, 2011.
- Sewage Sludge from Incinerator Free Mecklenburg, NC, Central Piedmont Sierra Club, September 2010.
- ‘Green’ Biomass Isn’t Always So Clean, i watch (Center for Public Integrity), April 26, 2011.
- Garbage Gasifier Proposed in Palisades, MN, Guest Editorial by Alan Muller, Aitkin Independent Age, June 30, 2010.
- IBA (Incinerator Bottom Ash) Banned from Use in Highway Projects, News- UK Win, January 29, 2010.
- An Industry Blowing Smoke:10 Reasons Why Gasification, Pyrolosis, & Plasma Incineration Are Not ‘Green Solutions’, by David Ciplet, GAIA, June 2009
- Say “No!” to TDR (Tire-Derived-Fuel)
- Greenaction Comments in Opposition to Sun Energy Group’s Permit Application for a Plasma Arc Facility in New Orleans, July 8, 2009.
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Moves Away from Gasification & Pyrolysis Consideration Says the New Report Commissioned by the State, gaia, December 22, 2008.
- Summary of Studies on Emissions of PAH’s, N2O, & CO from Waste Coal Fluidized Bed Combustors (FBCs), Energy Justice Network, 2001.
- Gasification by Alan Muller, 2010.
- Plasma Arc Technology for Municipal Solid Waste: A Proven Technology or Incinerator in Disguise?, Greenaction for Health & Environmental Justice & GAIA, March 10, 2008.
- Doctors Say: Be Careful, St. Lucie County; Make Geoplasma Prove Its Claims About Proposed Arc Incinerator, TC Palm, September 5, 2008.
- “Sacramento City Council Rejects Plasma Arc Incinerator Project”
- For some background You-Tubes on Plasma Arc, see:Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, PhD, Environmental Consultant.
- For more info, see memo to NAB from Neil Tangri of www.no-burn.org
- and Florida Plasma Arc Facility from Bradley Angel of Greenaction.
- Thermoselect Reality Check, Greenaction, 2006.