Month May 2009

“Irked?” Try “ballistic”

California cities irked by borrowing plan California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, wants to invoke a 2004 law to force municipalities to loan the state 8% of their property tax revenues. Administrators of already cash-strapped cities and counties said the loans would…

Turning wastewater sludge green

Sanford Fla., in a first-ever, will use dried biosolids from waste water sludge as fuel for the sludge dryer instead of natural gas, thus saving millions of dollars. Another project by the same company, MaxWest Environmental Systems, will process 100,000…

Plasma gasification of waste into fuel, power

WMI and EnTec are working on a plasma gasification project that turns industrial and medical waste into electricity onsite with modules that can handle 5-125 tons per day. This is a double win for the companies because they are creating…