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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 2010
Page
28
A mother asks how her daughter Alicia, a coach coordinating multiple projects, can take planned vacations without last minute cancellations or intrusive calls. Advice suggests requesting advance commitments for trips and explains that signing performance notes is standard to confirm reading them, not agreement.
George C. Ford reports on biomass as a long term energy investment. The piece explains anaerobic digestion, the methane produced from manure and industrial waste, and how generators can use landfill gas for electricity. Metro Waste Authority operates Iowa’s only landfill to generate power from methane.
The article outlines a four week series on renewable energy with March 28 focusing on solar energy and April topics on wind energy and alternative fuels. It notes 3.2 million cubic feet of methane from a Cedar Rapids landfill burned by eight Caterpillar engines producing 6,400 kilowatts, equal to 112,000 barrels of oil annually. The Cedar Rapids landfill is run by the Solid Waste Agency, and Penford Products previously used its gas to fuel a boiler until 2007 technical issues.
Anecdotes trace biogas use to ancient Assyria and note the first digester in 1859 at a Bombay leper colony. Interest spread to England in 1895 for street lamps, with expansion in Germany by 1951 for car fuel. By 2009 about 140 U.S. farm digesters operated, with Wisconsin producing the most electricity at 83.4 MWh annually. A dispute cut off landfill gas supply from Envirogas to Prairie Creek Generating Station’s operations during the 2008 flood aftermath.
The article notes rising factory output and exports as manufacturing hires again and investors push billions into U S production. Prominent figures like Ron Bloom and Ben Bernanke praise the sector as a driver of early economic revival, despite lingering job losses and foreign competition.
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