Energy Intelligence - Waste into Energy

The United States is one of the worlds biggest producers of waste, and the landfills are bursting with many years of excessive consumption and dumping of surplus food and biomass.

The fact is that the country just can't afford to go on consuming 26% of the world's resources with 3% of the world's population, and simply throwing away the surplus to rot in the ground.

The problem of waste has to be turned around with local programs to use that valuable resource to generate electricity and save imported oil.

The new generations of Anaerobic Generators turn that waste into Methane, and that natural gas can then be used to power the generators and produce electricity. The end product can be recycled back to the land as fertilizer, thus saving further oil, the raw material of most fertilizer products.

A World and a Generation Away

It was in 1975 that I began my involvement with global Oil and Gas exploration. The years of flying maritime surveillance missions around the North Sea, and the regular visits to Aberdeen and the Scottish ports had already given a firm understanding of the potential and problems associated with the North Sea Oil and Gas bonanza, as it was called back then. Looking back it seemed that the Oil and Gas would be there for ever.

Today working around the United States, with regular trips to Europe the emphasis is on finding new innovative ways of producing energy, other than drilling a hole in the ground and watching it come out.

The technologies employed are sometimes more wishful thinking than realistic, and over the years I have been proved right again and again with the warnings about unforeseen consequences of rushing to embrace some alternative fuel technologies.