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IOWA has used landfills for many years and until recent requirements, they are unlined polluting our beautiful land’s air and 
water. New landfills must have a liner however the hazard of the waste that is buried there does not go away. If new landfills are needed, they are very difficult to site requiring years of negotiations, much land area at high cost, not to mention dissention in the community. Other waste is shipped out of state requiring fuel to get it there. Recycling only answers part of the problem.
water. New landfills must have a liner however the hazard of the waste that is buried there does not go away. If new landfills are needed, they are very difficult to site requiring years of negotiations, much land area at high cost, not to mention dissention in the community. Other waste is shipped out of state requiring fuel to get it there. Recycling only answers part of the problem. Economic Study Underway
The City of Marion, wastenotIOWA and the University of Iowa with support from private investors have selected SCS Engineering of
Tampa, Florida to conduct an economic analysis to determine the best economic model using available plasma arc technologies for our geographic area. Primary funding of the study comes from an appropriation for the Iowa Legislature as overseen by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. This should provide a basis on which a business plan could be developed to construct a plasma arc gasification waste to energy facility. The study is expected to be completed in October 2009. The study is coordinated by the City of Marion (www.cityof marion.org). Why bury energy?
Locked up in the waste we send to landfills is an enormous amount of BTUs. These BTUs can be recycled into useful forms including energy. This can be in the form of heat, gases and electricity. Citizens and local governments all over the world are getting excited about the possibilities technology can bring, especially with high energy prices and reliance on unstable foreign governments. There are successful existing applications and new ways to use proven technologies that are moving past the research stage, being developed and built.
Plasma Arc
One technology that wastenotIOWA is enthused about is Plasma Arc technology. It uses an electric arc much like lightning that creates high temperatures virtually destroying waste and converting it to gases and inert materials that can be used to make useful products. This is all done using only part of the energy from the waste itself. The rest is used for productive purposes.
Locked up in the waste we send to landfills is an enormous amount of BTUs. These BTUs can be recycled into useful forms including energy. This can be in the form of heat, gases and electricity. Citizens and local governments all over the world are getting excited about the possibilities technology can bring, especially with high energy prices and reliance on unstable foreign governments. There are successful existing applications and new ways to use proven technologies that are moving past the research stage, being developed and built.
Plasma Arc
One technology that wastenotIOWA is enthused about is Plasma Arc technology. It uses an electric arc much like lightning that creates high temperatures virtually destroying waste and converting it to gases and inert materials that can be used to make useful products. This is all done using only part of the energy from the waste itself. The rest is used for productive purposes. 