Date: June 5, 2006
Source: Company Announcement
Michael Spitzauer and the privately held Issaquah, Washington based company, Green Power, Inc. Have plenty to celebrate about these days.
On June 2, they were able to publicly demonstrate their new technology of turning everyday land fill waste into diesel fuel, in a process called "catalytic Depolymerisation. The demonstration took place in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and was witnessed by roughly 100 onlookers, including City officials, oil refinery executives, various corporate representatives and media.
After an introduction by Craig Whitehead, the City's Waste Management Project Manager, a pre-brief and orientation was presented by Spitzauer and the technology's inventor, Dr Christian Koch, at the City's council chambers. Following the presentation, the group was transported by bus to the city's solid waste transfer station, where GREEN POWER technicians had spent the previous day setting up the mobile demonstration unit, mounted on a Mercedes-Benz truck.
The vehicle had arrived in Cheyenne, in the wee hours of the morning after being received from Germany via ship and driven from Providence, Rhode Island, only stopping for fuel. There was no small amount of anxiety by the crews as the unit had no opportunity for testing or adjustment prior to the demonstration in order to make the pre-arranged demonstration date.
City Counsel woman, Georgia Boyles brought along her own plastic bag of trash with was thrown in the mix and mechanically shredded into small bits before being mixed with a special catalyst in the Demonstration Unit. Within a few minutes, a valve was turned and yellowish diesel fuel was pouring forth, filling plastic buckets. Samples were offered to spectators as well as chemists from a local oil refinery for analysis. Television cameras from the local CBS, NBC, and CNN affiliates as several gallons were produced and put into a stock diesel-powered SUV, with the vehicle being started and driven by officials.
Later in the day, the Cheyenne City Counsel voted unanimously to award a contract to GREEN POWER to build the first-ever full-size US plant, intended to convert all of the city's waste to diesel. The $80 million dollar plant will accommodate all of the city's current daily waste, as well as material mined from the existing landfill. The details of the contract were worked out later in the week and are expected to be approved by the Council later this month.
If Spitzauer has his way, that plant will be up and running by late winter or early spring, 2007. Several other cities and waste-producing corporations from all over the world have since contacted GREEN POWER for information and requests for demonstrations in their communities. The Mobile unit is designed to be easily moved from city to city for just this purpose.
The next planned demonstration is planned for June 21 and 22, in Dallas, TX. GREEN POWER can be contacted for further information at 888-244-3310, or on the web at www.cleanenergyprojects.com.
More information: Contact Michael Spitzauer at 888.244.3310 or michael.spitzauer@cleanenergyprojects.com, or visit www.cleanenergyprojects.com.
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