In April of 2007, HDR began detailed design and construction of the EnerTech renewable energy plant located in Railto, California and is set to have the facility fully operational in the spring of this year. Already, Enertech environmental Inc. announced that this biosolids processing facility completed the first phase of mechanical testing last month and has started accepting the first truckloads of biosolids (sewage sludge)!Once operational, this facility will utilize EnerTech's patented "Slurry Cab" system (of which they are not giving any details about) to convert sewage sludge from Southern California's waste systems to approximately 170 tons per day of renewable fuel. This fuel, called "E-Fuel" will be used as a coal supplement in cement kilns. The use of E-Fuel will offset over 85,000 tons of Carbon Dioxide emissions and convert 240,000 wet tons of biosolids into renewable fuel per year in Southern California.
I think this is a much needed facility and can't wait for this technology to be fully tested and implemented across the United States. I think that this will greatly decrease the dangers we face in the United States and have indeed experienced from the last two coal-ash spills in Tennessee and Alabama and hopefully we can phase out coal from much of our manufacturing and technological processes.
Image obtained from www.biosolids.org/webimages/enr_tech
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