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As the price of energy continues to rise. we'll take a look at the future of renewable sources in NH. |
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New Life for an old fuel as wood chips from NH's forests play a role in the future of renewable energy. |
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We'll show you how this landfill is turning trash into energy for heating and electricity. And later. |
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Are you ready for the end of cheap oil? We'll learn about the theory of Peak Oil and what it means for New England's future. |
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We're coming to you from the Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise facility in Rochester.where, along with state-of-the art waste management techniques, Turnkey is turning landfill gas into energy. Hello I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. We'll learn more about renewable energy efforts here in just a bit. But first, as NH - and the rest of New England - prepare for a hot summer and its demands for more energy, there are also calls for that energy to be "greener" and for its generation to create less pollution and greenhouse gases that lead to global warming. Thanks to a project launched more than 4 years ago, NH has a new source of cleaner and renewable energy. And perhaps the best news is - it's homegrown. Richard Ager has the story. |
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Coming up next. turning your trash into precious energy. It's happening at the dump. I'll show you how. |
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NH's Renwable Energy Act is expected to help stimulate the development of alternative energy sources. Already, some 2.3 million megawatt hours of electricity are being generated in NH from renewable energy One of those sources is here at the Turnkey landfill in Rochester. Here to talk about that turning trash into energy is District Manager Alan Davis of WM of NH. Q This is not your usual dump. It's a state-of-the art landfill facility, complete with golf driving range, condo complex, and homeless shelter. How did all this develop? Q Methane is a byproduct of decomposing garbage. Q How much GARBAGE do you process a year, and how much ENERGY can that produce? Q: You're involved in a groundbreaking project to bring landfill methane gas to the UNH? a pipeline will pump methane gas from Rochester to Durham How significant is that? What will it mean for Univ? Q Of the nation's 6,000 landfills only 340 turn LANDFILL GAS into Electricity. Why aren't MORE landfills harnessing that energy??? Q How soon can a landfill create energy? 1 year after waste in place. Peaks at 7. How long can it produce energy. 30 years after landfill is lined and sealed. Q Other trash-to-energy efforts in NH? Is there a downside? Q: What other renewable energy projects are you working on? Exciting things on the horizon? Q: Dawn's silly question: Do you see a day in the future when people will be creating their own energy from home compost piles? |
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Questions for Alan Davis: Q: A trip to the dump has coming a long way. This is a state of the art landfill facility with lots of unusual uses, including a golf driving range, condominium complex and homeless shelter. How did all this develop? Q: You process a lot of garbage. One of the bi-products of decomposing garbage is methane. Why is it bad for the environment? Q: How are you harnessing it for energy? Q: Tell me about your project with UNH? When will it be completed? Q: What other renewable energy projects are you working on? Q: Dawn's silly question: Do you see a day in the future when people will be creating their own energy from home compost piles? |
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Without a significant supply of alternatives, the future of New England's energy picture is pretty bleak. The peaking of easily available oil may force us to change our addiction to petroleum and its byproducts. Peak oil means the end of cheap oil and that has significant local consequences. Keene State College professor Rose Kundanis brings us one view of New Hampshire's energy future. |
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The Peak Oil theory is a controversial one. But the need for energy independence is something more and more people and policy makers are beginning to embrace. |
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That's it for this edition of NH Outlook from the Turnkey landfill site in Rochester, where renewable energy is being harnessed. I'm Beth Carroll. Thanks for joining us. I'll see you around New Hampshire. |
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Renewable Energy Script video: Stonyfield solar tape 0:09:00 * nice pan down from sky to panels Track: When Stonyfield Yogurt announced it had just installed the state's largest solar panel display, it was no surprise. bite: Stonyfield solar tape 0:03:30 We are invested in having a healthy planet, and that shows through the organic products we sell and the way we do business, and so these solar panels are just one more way that we feel we can do that. soundup: Stonyfield production line from file tape Track: For its investment, Stonyfield gets a pricy 50 kilowatts of energy - and a boost to its corporate image. bite: Stonyfield solar tape 0:03;10 The easiest thing to do is to buy power from the utility so if the mechanisms are in place for the utility to make the power, I think that would be the easier way for most companies to do it. Track: That scenario is now becoming more realistic, as the state's largest utility is replacing a 50 megawatt coal boiler at its Schiller Station with a new wood-burning unit. Bite: Schiller Construction tape 0:18;40 The platform lifts the truck right up and the wood dumps in the back of the hopper and goes into the conveying system and into the processing building. Track: The new boiler will reduce the current unit's sulfur emission by 90% - and the nitrous oxide which causes smog by over 60%. Bite: Schiller Construction tape 0:14:40 HOW THIS IS GOING TO BE PAID FOR? The beauty of this is - we're able to do this without a negative impact on our customers. And the technology that's being built behind us - a fluidized boiler - will qualify us for renewable energy certificates in the states of Massachusetts and Connnecticut. It's with that revenue stream that we'll be able to offset the costs of this project. SO YOU'VE GOT POWER CONSUMERS IN MASSACHUSETTS ESSENTIALLY PAYING FOR THIS PROJECT. Yes, exactly. THAT'S THE NH WAY, ISN'T IT? Absolutely. soundup: Keene tape 1 02;05:10 wind and test tower Track: Around the state, the winds of change are being felt - literally. Bite: Keene tape 1 01;59:10 As you can see from the resource we're dealing with right here, we're looking at windpower. Track: On this ridge in Lempster, New Hampshire's first wind farm is about to be built. Along two miles of ridge line, a dozen wind turbines - each more than 300 feet high - will generate 25 megawatts - enough for 12,000 homes. Bite: Keene tape 1 02:01:55 IS THIS COMPETITIVE - WILL IT PAY FOR ITSELF? It will be competitive, especially in the economics of today where power prices are rising because of fuel costs, and we're using the wind - a free resource - to generate the electicity here. We expect it to be very competitive. We'll be able to sell it to the market - to a buyer at a very competitive price. SO IF THIS WORKS OUT, ARE THERE A LOT OF LOCATIONS HERE IN NH LIKE HERE IN LEMPSTER THAT COULD ALSO BE USED FOR THIS? I think there is potential in NH. We're also looking at other areas around NH. It's going to have to be a function of communities that it's amenable to, places where there's access to the right sort of lands at high elevations, and fairly close to transmission lines. AND WIND. Today's an example of this being the right spot. soundup: Biofuel tape 0:26:18 Rymes employee pulls hose to fill tanker truck Track: Rymes Fuels is now selling biodiesel - made partly from vegetable oil. Entrepreneurs like Rymes are looking for ways to make renewable energy a part of the economy. But what happens when an entire community takes action? Track: In 2000, the city council of Keene decided the city should join the fight against greenhouse gas emissions that lead to global warming. bite: Keene tape 1 01;12:00 We think the hard work of making changes on global warming is going to be done by cities and towns. And businesses and companies. Ironically, in the rest of the world, federal and national governments have provided the leadership. In this country, there's been a vacuum of leadership at the federal level. That has left cities and towns like Keene to step forward and take a leadership position on the issue and we think we're trying to do that. Understand - we think we're going to have to do it anyway. The climate is already shifting, the changes are already occurring and we're trying to anticipate them before they happen. PAY ME NOW OR PAY ME LATER? That's right. soundup: Keene tape 1 01:49:50 Truck backs out of garage and drives to fuel pump Track: One step - converting the city's fleet to biodiesel. bite: Keene tape 1 01;41:40 WHAT GOOD HAS THIS DONE YOU? WHAT GOOD HAS COME OUT OF THIS FOR THE CITY OF KEENE? A couple of things. One is - we've lowered our dependency on foreign oil by 20% the day we put it in the ground, which is wonderful. The second thing is - we're really cleaning up the air. Track: The city commissioned a study that demonstrated biodielsel not only reduces pollution - it has also reduced health problems such as headaches among the mechanics in the fleet garage. bite: Keene tape 1 01:42:50 NOW PUT THIS IN EVERYDAY LANGUAGE. DIESELS ARE KNOWN FOR SPEWING BLACK SMOKE. ARE WE GOING TO SEE LESS OF THIS? Yes. The soot has been reduced as well as the nonvisible particulate - that's the deep lung stuff - that's the asthma creating stuff that really is a problem. Track: Another problem faced by most communities - methane emissions from the landfill. Bite: Keene tape 1 01:1730 ** DUNCAN - TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THESE WELLS AND HOW THEY WORK. We have 17 of these active collection wells and what they are is a standard well that is drilled into the landfill and gas migrates to the path of least resistance and the well creates that path of least resistance. Track: Instead of polluting the air, the methane is burned, creating enough power to run the city's recycling station. The facility is connected to the grid, but the meter always reads zero. Bite: Keene tape 1 01:15:57 SO WHAT ARE THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS, COST ASIDE? The environmental benefit, straight forward, is that methane is a greenhouse gas. It's 20 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas - so capturing that gas is very important to prevent global warming gases from getting into the atmosphere. Track: The landfill closed in 1999, but it will generate the power for Keene's recycling station for at least another decade. Bite: Keene tape 1 01:16:50 * It's a sustainability model - and a way of making some lemonade out of lemons. Because you've got this million ton pile of trash and if it was just sitting idle - not doing anything. It just adds to the waste you've already got here. I'D SAY LET'S LIGHT A CIGAR IN CELEBRATION - BUT MAYBE NOT A GOOD IDEA. No - no smoking on the landfill. Track: Even the local high school is a front in the fight against unnecessary emissions - in this case, a student campaign against cars idling in front of the school. Bite: Keene tape 1 01;38:12 It gets kids motivated and the more the kids get motivated, the word gets out to parents and it starts spreading. NOW WE HAVE SOME VEHICLES IDLING RIGHT BEHIND US. DO YOU GIVE THEM A PASS DURING COLD WEATHER? I think it sometimes depends. As you see - she just shut it off….I think sometimes you have to be a little lenient when people are there for 20 seconds, making sure they're warm, is different from 2 minutes when they're sitting here for no reason, just letting the music play when they don't need to. Track: No energy saving measure seems too small for Keene, which will begin plowing its bike paths this winter to encourage walkers and hardy cyclists. And the city has begun a new challenge to all households and business to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 10%. Bite: Keene tape 1 01:57:03 I think the lesson of Keene is that Keene is a typical American community in New England. We don't have a big budget, we don't have a lot of money - but we've been able to do a lot of these things and if we can do it, pretty much anybody can do it. I think there's a lot to learn from the city of Keene. Track: For NH Outlook, I'm Richard Ager Bite: Keene tape 1 01:39:05 this one sign we hope to multiply and have signs all throughout, not just our schools but other schools throughout NH. SO IS THIS HOW CHANGE STARTS? I believe so. I think also with students starting it - what better start with the future generation? If you can start us now, we will be believers the rest of the time and hopefully practice no idling and keep our air cleaner. END OF SCRIPT |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/20/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 10:50 Now on New Hampshire Outlook: New Life for an old fuel as wood chips from New Hampshire forests play a role in the future of renewable energy. Plus: we'll show you how this landfill is turning trash into energy for heating and electricity. And later: are you ready for the end of cheap oil? We'll learn about the theory of Peak Oil and what it means for New England's future. We're coming to you from the Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise facility in Rochester, where, along with state-of-the art waste management techniques, Turnkey is turning landfill gas into energy. Hello I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. We'll learn more about renewable energy efforts here in just a bit. But first, as NH - and the rest of New England - prepare for a hot summer and its demands for more energy, there are also calls for that energy to be "greener" and for its generation to create less pollution and greenhouse gases that lead to global warming. Thanks to a project launched more than 4 years ago, NH has a new source of cleaner and renewable energy. And perhaps the best news is - it's homegrown. Richard Ager has the story. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Gary Long\President PSNH, Dick Despins\Schiller Plant Manager, William Dunlap\Society for the Protection of NH Forests, Doug Bogen\Clean Water Action, Gov. John Lynch\ New Hampshire, Chuck Shivery\CEO - Northeast Utilities |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/20/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 4:20 Now on New Hampshire Outlook: New Life for an old fuel as wood chips from New Hampshire forests play a role in the future of renewable energy. Plus: we'll show you how this landfill is turning trash into energy for heating and electricity. And later are you ready for the end of cheap oil? We'll learn about the theory of Peak Oil and what it means for New England's future. We're coming to you from the Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise facility in Rochester, where, along with state-of-the art waste management techniques, Turnkey is turning landfill gas into energy. Hello I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. New Hampshire's Renwable Energy Act is expected to help stimulate the development of alternative energy sources. Already, some 2.3 million megawatt hours of electricity are being generated in NH from renewable energy. One of those sources is here at the Turnkey landfill in Rochester. Here to talk about that turning trash into energy is District Manager Alan Davis of Waste Management of New Hampshire. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Beth Carroll NAME OF PARTICIPANTS:CG: Alan Davis\Waste Management of NH |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/20/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 9:00 Now on New Hampshire Outlook: New Life for an old fuel as wood chips from New Hampshire forests play a role in the future of renewable energy. Plus: we'll show you how this landfill is turning trash into energy for heating and electricity. And later are you ready for the end of cheap oil? We'll learn about the theory of Peak Oil and what it means for New England's future. We're coming to you from the Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise facility in Rochester, where, along with state-of-the art waste management techniques, Turnkey is turning landfill gas into energy. Hello I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. Without a significant supply of alternatives, the future of New England's energy picture is pretty bleak. The peaking of easily available oil may force us to change our addiction to petroleum and its byproducts. Peak oil means the end of cheap oil and that has significant local consequences. Keene State College professor Rose Kundanis brings us one view of New Hampshire's energy future. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Rose Kundanis NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Matthew Simmons\Chairman, Simmons and Company International, Professor John Carroll\UNH, Environmental Conservation |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 5/20/2007 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 9:00 Now on New Hampshire Outlook: New Life for an old fuel as wood chips from New Hampshire forests play a role in the future of renewable energy. Plus: we'll show you how this landfill is turning trash into energy for heating and electricity. And later are you ready for the end of cheap oil? We'll learn about the theory of Peak Oil and what it means for New England's future. We're coming to you from the Turnkey Recycling and Environmental Enterprise facility in Rochester, where, along with state-of-the art waste management techniques, Turnkey is turning landfill gas into energy. Hello I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. Without a significant supply of alternatives, the future of New England's energy picture is pretty bleak. The peaking of easily available oil may force us to change our addiction to petroleum and its byproducts. Peak oil means the end of cheap oil and that has significant local consequences. Keene State College professor Rose Kundanis brings us one view of New Hampshire's energy future. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Rose Kundanis NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Matthew Simmons\Chairman, Simmons and Company International, Professor John Carroll\UNH, Environmental Conservation |
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Ethanol could fuel price hikes Posted Saturday, March 31st 2007, 4:00 AM An ethanol-fueled boom in prices will prompt American farmers to plant the most corn since the year the Allies invaded Normandy, but surging demand could mean consumers still might pay more for everything from chicken to cough syrup. Corn is a key ingredient in many foods, from corn syrup found in candies to feed used in meat production. With more corn being used for ethanol production, that could raise prices in other areas where corn is used. Farmers are expected to plant 90.5 million acres of corn, according to the Department of Agriculture's annual prospective plantings report released yesterday. That would be a 15% increase over 2006 and the most corn planted since 1944. The move to plant corn is in large part due to a rush to produce corn-based ethanol, which is blended with gasoline. The corn rush was sparked by President Bush's initiative for support of flexible-fuel vehicles and his administration's plan to cut gas consumption by 20% in 10 years. The Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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n New West Energy Grok ‘Ethanol Binge’ Hikes Corn Prices By Richard Martin, 3-23-07 Last week US BioEnergy had a ground-breaking ceremony at a new ethanol plant in Dyersville, Iowa, bringing to 78 the number of ethanol plants under construction, with 113 already operating. And that’s not good news for the ranchers and poultry farmers of the Rocky Mountain West. Amid the “ethaphoria” currently gripping agribusiness and certain parts of the nation’s capital, a growing chorus of voices is pointing out an unintended consequence on the reliance on corn and grains as the raw material for ethanol production: prices for feed fo livestock are rising, sending prices at grocery stores up as well. “This ethanol binge is insane,” Paul Hitch, president-elect of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Assn., told BusinessWeek. Corn prices have doubled over the last year, reports the Earth Policy Institute, while wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years. The diversion of corn to fuel ethanol uses “is creating unintended consequences throughout the global food chain,” a Bloomberg analysis finds – not to mention increased use of pesticides and fossil fuels to grow all that corn. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress has slapped a 54-cents-per-gallon tarrif on ethanol from Brazil – which is grown from sugarcane. Wonder what’s going to happen to rum prices. In other energy news: -- In a man-bites-dog story, Xcel Energy has applied to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for an electricity rate decrease of $13.6 million thanks to lower costs of fuel, such as natural gas, and purchased electricity predicted for upcoming months. If approved by the PUC, the new rates would take effect April 1 and continue through June 30. Meanwhile, the Colo. attorney general has announced his support for HB 1208, which would alter the state’s Unfair Practices Act to allow big chain stores to offer big gas discounts. -- As Colo. Governor Bill Ritter’s legislative package to boost renewable energy, and increase oversight of the oil and gas industry in the state, moves closer to signing, Big Energy is faced with a dilemma: oppose the measures, and be seen as obstructionists and anti-environmentalists, or swallow hard and go along? So far the Colorado Petroleum Association is against House Bill 1341, which would reform the board of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, while oil giant BP—the state’s No. 1 natural gas producer—says it will take a wait-and-see approach. -- Earlier we reported that, despite the Bush Administration’s ambitious goals for technology to produce cellulosic ethanol from organic material other than corn, the research budget for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, which is leading the way on cellulosic science, had flatlined. That’s no longer the case: the Energy Department announced Friday that the NREL will get an additional $99 million in funding this year, a 47-percent jump. Comment By dukeco1, 3-23-07 Big Energy is not accustomed to going along. They are, in Colorado at least, accustomed to getting their way. They just need to sidle over and make room for all their chickens moving back in to the roost. Comment By Hal Herring, 3-23-07 Brazilian ethanol tariff shows the world that all our free market talk is just like all that talk about WMD. How much more credibility can we stand to lose? As we pump out the last aquifers to water the chem-corn.bust the last prairie for the GMO variety, importing as much oil as we can to drive those tractors that make the corn ethanol binge.keep those Wahabbis happy, don't you know, keep the money flowing to them as leaders pretend to "get off the product," wreck the land, keep the annuities for the families of the Islamic suicide bombers healthy, line some US pockets, and witness the end of the greatest nation on earth. Dang. Hal Boy, it ain't a pretty picture is it? Comment By Chris, 3-23-07 Not only that, but the plants that make the stuff are awful-smelling blights too. Last week I was working literally in the shadow of an ADM plant in Cedar Rapids, IA, that processes corn syrup from corn, and is in the process of building an ethanol plant. I don't know what was in the exhaust belching into the sky, but it sure smelled raunchy. I wouldn't wish that in anyone's backyard. Comment By pete geddes, 3-23-07 When we subsidize things that trade in the market, we benefit the well off and well organized at the expense of the most vulnerable members of society. This holds true whether in Bozeman, Boston, or Birmingham. Princeton Ph.D. George Will said it well: “The world is divided between those who do and do not understand that activist, interventionist, regulating, subsidizing government is generally a servant of the strong and entrenched against the weak and aspiring.” Comment By Francesco DeParis, 3-23-07 I think we should start supporting cellulosic ethanol in the same manner we support corn-based ethanol. There will come a point when corn prices are too high to consider this an economic alternative to petroleum. I comment about cellulosic ethanol onEnergy Spin: Alternative Energy Blog For Investors Served Daily Cheers, Francesco DeParis Comment By bearbait, 3-25-07 One result of NAFTA was that corn from USA was so cheap and available that it drove tens of thousands of small Mexican farmers off the land and to town to find work. Now that corn has doubled in price, tortillas have also doubled in price. The poorest in Mexico now have a harder time eating, and more incentive to move north. The end result, of course, is how much energy independence do you gain by having your country supporting another million or more illegal aliens in need of medical, financial, housing and education subsidy, all of which come with energy demands? Corn ethanol comes with costs, many of which are hidden. Again, a hero move supported by liberal midwestern politicians financed by MegaAg companies, comes with unintended consequences. The ones in Mexico have happened, and the ones here are on the conveyor belt to realization. Meat prices will have to rise, and we all will pay that price. Even the vegans will pay a higher price as soy beans are replaced by corn in the farm fields. Comment By cc, 3-26-07 That Xcel Energy news item relates to the monthly ECA which adjusts, up or down, for the commodity cost of natural gas feedstock, primarily. Thus, it is not that unusual to see a downward ECA result in an overall decrease in electrictiy rates for the following month. Incidentally, the same mechanism is found on the natural gas bills but it is called a GCA. Thus, this is not a "man bites dog" story, but something that occurs when natural gas prices decline. 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Michael Briggs UNH biodiesel group msbriggs@unh.edu http:/www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/goals_index.html http:/italy.thestudentzone.com/article/21801 story on biodiesel buses at unh |