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Departments Environment Good, clean, green way to generate electricity is approved by city in San Diego County But what is happening in Vista, California, right now is not in any futuristic movie, it is the next wave of good, clean, green ways to generate electricity without substantial adverse effects on the environment. Not quite Mr. Fusion, but close. Forward-thinking city officials have approved a special use permit which allows Envirepel Energy Inc., to move forward with the balance of the permits required to finish construction of its renewable, bio energy facility and begin operation of it for an initial 18-months. It will be using a process called “gasification combustion” which cleanly burns green waste and wood, to produce electricity. Not to be confused with “incineration” during which refuse is burned in lieu of burial in a landfill, gasification would not degrade the quality of the environment, result in long-term or cumulative impacts or have substantial adverse effects on human beings, either directly or indirectly, say experts. After reviewing plans for the facility, the Vista Planning Commission voted unanimously to give it the go-ahead. “We supported it,” said John Conley, acting community development director for the city. “We think it is an exciting, new technology.” He said that while a trash-to-energy concept is not new, the drawback in the past was the air pollution they produced. “If they (Envirepel) can reduce their emission, and they can do it in a fairly urban area, then they have proven their technology on a larger scale,” Conley said. “Meeting air pollution control is part of the requirement.” If the company can meet the requirements, it will be given an extension for a total of the five years, he said. “The entire purpose of this system is to produce energy with practically zero emissions,” said Anthony Arand, CEO of Envirepel. “If it doesn't operate at zero pollution emission, it shuts down.” Arand said the Vista project, which he named “Kittyhawk,” after the first in flight Wright Brothers, will be one of the first facilities to use emissions scrubbing equipment for the reduction of Global Warming greenhouse gases. The project is housed in a building in the Vista Business Park. Green waste from private waste disposal companies instead of being dumped in a landfill, would be hauled to the site. Same goes for slash from clean up from forest fires from the Cleveland National Forest provided by the National Conservation Service. The green waste will be ground and fed into a ceramic lined steel oven. The bricks will heat up and create methane gas. The gas would then be burned to heat a boiler that Arand calls “The tea kettle,” and the steam from the boiler would drive a turbine to produce about 2,000 watts of electricity per day. Two-thousand watts of electricity is enough to power about 2,000 homes for an entire day, Arand said. Some of the energy produced by Kittyhawk would used to power the plant and the rest would be sold to San Diego Gas & Electric. In the very near future, Arand proposes setting up additional bio energy plants at landfills to handle on-site green waste, turn it into energy and almost as important, keeping it out of landfills. --- For more information about Envirepel Energy, Inc., contact reedermedia@gmail.com or call Julie Reeder at (760) 310-6229. |
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