Waste To Energy
We create an abundance of waste. In 2008, U.S. residents, businesses, and institutions produced nearly 250 million tons of Municipal Solid Waste alone—over 4.5 pounds of waste per person per day1. Unfortunately, much of it wound up in landfills, where it will continue to outgas and create other future problems.
In that same year, the U.S. consumed 94,578,000,000,000,000 (nearly 95 quadrillion) BTUs of energy—over 82% of it from fossil fuels2. Reserves are being depleted much faster than new ones are being formed. The burning of fossil fuels produces around 6.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year—a major source of global warming.
It just makes sense to use as much of that waste to produce as much energy as we can. We can reduce landfills, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create renewable energy. Simeken provides a solution to do all of this—the Simeken PRO™ System.
Simeken is a Clean Energy Company
Due to the environmental concerns of coal-fired plants, most of the new energy systems in the last 30 years are powered by natural gas. With the price of oil rising and natural gas soon to follow, all of the gas-fired energy systems will come under great pressure to provide kilowatts at affordable rates. The days of cheap energy are almost over.
With landfill space dwindling and environmental pressures mounting, we feel the PRO System will provide the waste handling capabilities needed, along with a strong energy production component seldom found in environmental projects.
The PRO System is not limited to one waste stream for effective energy production and can be designed specifically to fit into and complement other recycling efforts. This system was designed to handle those tough environmental wastes that other systems avoid and it produces not only reusable co-products, but also drives turbines to produce clean and inexpensive energy.
1. Source: http://www.epa.gov/waste/nonhaz/municipal/pubs/msw2008data.pdf
2. Source: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/mer/pdf/pages/sec1_3.pdf