Last week I was in Jefferson City, Missouri to meet with environmental regulators and was surprised to hear that a bill was being debated singling out the RES plant for odors in Carthage, Missouri. What a coincidence that I was able to participate in the discussions. What I found was hope and a rekindled confidence in the leadership of the State. Many of the people I met including some who were initially supporting what we believe was an unfair attack on the facility were more interested in how they could help so that more waste-to-oil facilities could be built solving three huge issues. That being waste disposal, energy production and global warming. Many comments were what a great idea to turn a burdensome liability, waste, into oil and fertilizer. We believe we have the majority of support for what we are doing in Missouri, the Show Me State. We believe that even our worst critics will come around because it is the right thing to do.
The majority of the people I spoke with get the point that we need to help industry and not chase it away. RES is selling fuel and fertilizer locally. Two large industrial entities are able to reduce energy cost while using a green fuel and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Local farmers are happy applying an organic fertilizer at a discount to chemical fertilizers, putting the wealth back into the land so it produces abundant crops.
The dedicated staff at Carthage should be commended for making this dream come true for turning waste into oil despite the exaggerated complaints and the attacks on them to keep a nuisance lawsuit alive. It is hard to believe that the nation is so divided on so many issues and a local plant that is truly amazing appears to have divided the town. We do not believe that the nation or the town are divided, but the story sure helps sell papers. You would think that even the small group of purported activist looking at the big issues facing our communities and nation would ask how to help instead of how to kill what the whole world needs; a waste to energy facility in every community.
Brian Appel of Changing World Technologies is not your average CEO. He is a man of passion and opinion, who is not afraid to tell our policy makers how to solve our waste and energy problems. CWT has a small demonstration plant that is successfully making a renewable diesel fuel oil from waste material and selling it commercially. A devoted following of former skeptics believes CWT is on to something real and valuable. Read on.
Posts
4 comments:
I have been following the RES / odor issues from afar in Connecticut. I truly hope that RES and the local and state government can resolve the issues by working together rather than via the courts. The concerns from the local citizens seem quite real, but I also understand that the source seems to be difficult to pin down. It has to be frustrating to all.
As I was catching up on the story two weeks ago (and stumbled across this blog), I wondered if you have looked at other feedstocks for TDP recently. Specifically, I was thinking of sawgrass. At one point it seemed to hold promise for conversion to ethanol, but I have not seen real evidence that progress is being made. I am wondering if it might be a viable feedstock for TDP?
I also wonder if other feedstocks have been tried. Algae is supposed to trump all other feedstocks in terms of productive capacity. Has CWT tested this feedstock? I doubt it would have the same odor problem rightly or wrongly ascribed to CWT. I think that as far as supply is concerned, prolifically growing algae can be grown to maximize the available feedstock so that CWT plants could run at full productive capacity.
We're still praying for you.
www.choosejesusrightnow.com
Thanks we need all the help we can get!
Post a Comment