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 Burning Biomass with Fossil Fuels

August 22, 2007

Cutting greenhouse gas emission need not be distant dream or expensive. Advocates of co-firing bio-mass with coal or natural gas say that it is an effective way for utilities to begin now to reduce their carbon footprints.

Biomass consists of any fuel produced from organic matter. That includes forest waste, agricultural waste, organic waste and municipal waste. Biomass produced from wood chips, for example, can be mixed with certain types of coal before the new compound is combusted. It can all be accomplished, say experts, without having to change the fuel-firing system.
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 First of 32 Wind Turbines Installed In Huron County

Thursday, August 16, 2007

ELKTON - Workers erected the Thumb area's first commercial wind turbine Wednesday, and heads were spinning even if the structure's blades weren't yet turning to make electricity.

Motorists cruised along Richardson and Gagetown roads in Huron County's Oliver Township, rubbernecking at a turbine where blades reach a peak height of 396 feet above the ground.

''The people were lined up in cars all along Richardson Road as far as I could see to the east, and they were parked in the fields, parked all over the place,'' said Adolph Einhardt, 86, who watched iron workers and crane operators raise the first turbine on Helen Young's farm.
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 DTE Green Power Program Starts West Michigan Wind Farm

8/17/2007

The Detroit utility holding company DTE Energy announced Thursday it has signed a long-term agreement with Michigan-based Heritage Sustainable Energy LLC to provide wind power for DTE's GreenCurrents renewable energy program.
 
The 10-year agreement will enable Heritage to build a new 6,500-acre wind farm in Wexford County's Richland Township, near Cadillac.

Introduced earlier this year, GreenCurrents offers DTE Energy's 2.2 million electric customers the option of choosing environmentally friendly renewable energy for their homes and businesses.
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 Making Wind Fit

August 13, 2007

With the public's demand for green energy growing and favorable tax policies in place at least through the end of next year, wind energy's upward draft shows no sign of abating. In fact, in its first-quarter 2007 market report, the American Wind Energy Association projected another 3,000 megawatts of capacity being built this year and thousands of megawatts remain on the drawing board in the ensuing years.
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 The Appeal of Animal Waste

August 10, 2007

The whole idea stinks. But generating heat and power from livestock manure is appealing. The compost is placed into an oxygen-free machine that separates the methane gas and then uses it to create electricity to power farms or transport over the grid.

The technology is an important component in the fight against climate change. Normally, farms store the waste in a lagoon and then later use it as a fertilizer. But, that natural decomposition creates methane, which is actually 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide when it comes to affecting the Earth's temperature. The ability to capture that gas and then reuse it in an environmentally friendly manner not only lessens greenhouse gas output; it also reduces the need for other types of fuel sources.
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