Comments on: The Long Awaited Biosolid disposal plan…we are still waiting. http://uel.org/2010/04/09/the-long-awaited-biosolid-disposal-plan-we-are-still-waiting/ of greater Miami Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hshields http://uel.org/2010/04/09/the-long-awaited-biosolid-disposal-plan-we-are-still-waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 hshields Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:48:54 +0000 http://uel.org/2010/04/09/the-long-awaited-biosolid-disposal-plan-we-are-still-waiting/#comment-1041 Europe and Japan are way ahead of USA in using sludge as a renewable resource to produce electricity, biogas, heat, energy, power, etc. New non-polluting technologies include pyrolysis, gasification, plasma arc, anaerobic digestion to produce methane, etc. <br /><br />Using sludge as a power source protects agricultural land, surface and groundwaters from contamination, saves money, and reduces both greenhouse gases and the need to import costly foreign oil and gas. <br /><br />Spending millions of dollars to produce Class A sludge "biosolids" is a poor choice. Sludge pellets are known to spontaneously combust and have been responsible for many fires. A marketing study may very well find that the country is already awash in Class A sludge products which no-one wants. <br /><br />Check out the neat high-tech methods of utilizing sludge as a renewable energy source: <br />http://sludgevictims.com/clean-alternatives.html<br /><br />http://www.usludgefree.org/basic.htm<br /><br />http://www.usludgefree.org/alternatives.htm<br /><br />http://www.usludgefree.org/AlternativesChart.pdf<br /><br />http://sludgevictims.com/documents/ALTERNATIVES_DE_09_UPDATE.doc<br /><br />http://sludgevictims.com/documents/ALTERNATIVE2009III.doc Europe and Japan are way ahead of USA in using sludge as a renewable resource to produce electricity, biogas, heat, energy, power, etc. New non-polluting technologies include pyrolysis, gasification, plasma arc, anaerobic digestion to produce methane, etc.

Using sludge as a power source protects agricultural land, surface and groundwaters from contamination, saves money, and reduces both greenhouse gases and the need to import costly foreign oil and gas.

Spending millions of dollars to produce Class A sludge "biosolids" is a poor choice. Sludge pellets are known to spontaneously combust and have been responsible for many fires. A marketing study may very well find that the country is already awash in Class A sludge products which no-one wants.

Check out the neat high-tech methods of utilizing sludge as a renewable energy source:
http://sludgevictims.com/clean-alternatives.html

http://www.usludgefree.org/basic.htm

http://www.usludgefree.org/alternatives.htm

http://www.usludgefree.org/AlternativesChart.pdf

http://sludgevictims.com/documents/ALTERNATIVES_DE_09_UPDATE.doc

http://sludgevictims.com/documents/ALTERNATIVE2009III.doc

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