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From YouTube: BioEnergy Roundtable - Mel Kurtz
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A
We
want
it
hi
mal,
kurz,
quasar
energy
group
were
cleveland-based
company.
Sam
Rutigliano
is
good
friend
of
mine
and
he
told
me
mayor
how
to
get
in
and
out
of
Pittsburgh
safely,
but
the
team
was
in
Cincinnati
last
night,
so
I'm
on
my
own
I'll
tell
them
that
mayor.
Thank
you
grant
Claire.
This
is
awesome.
A
It'd,
be
important
for
every
major
city
to
conduct
the
same
activities,
because
the
benefits
are
really
unilateral
and
your
example,
hopefully
will
lead
to
replicating
the
process.
Quasar
is
an
anaerobic
digester
company.
We
started
six
years
ago
with
four
people
we
have
127.
Now
we
have
air
space
capacity
in
our
digesters
to
process
700,000
tons.
A
We
have
18
facilities
operating
in
the
US
right
now
in
Ohio,
we're
processing
sludge
from
about
40,
different
municipalities,
sewage
sludge
from
about
40
municipalities,
including
city
of
columbus
city
of
cleveland,
were
back
up
for
city
of
toledo
dayton
and
a
whole
host
of
smaller
communities.
We've
processed
the
city
of
akron's
material
for
the
last
27
years.
It
used
to
be
an
investor
compost
plant,
but
now
it's
a
100-percent,
an
Arab
League
anaerobic
digestion
facility
where
we
used
to
buy
a
million
dollars
worth
of
electric
annually.
Now
we
export
two
million
it's
a
big
deal.
A
So
if
we
can,
if
we
can
master
ate
the
food
at
residential
or
commercial
and
put
it
down
the
drain,
it's
great
for
us.
If
not,
we
have
a
collection
alternative
and
it
still
go
to
a
digester
where
of
course,
it
has
a
higher
calorific
count
and
value
and
we'd
have
more
energy
captured
and
converted
because
of
it
the
bugs
take
the
organic
fraction,
just
like
our
body
does
converts
it
to
energy
and
occasionally
there's
a
slip
up
with
that
energy.
A
That's
created
the
methane,
nobody
thought
that
was
funny,
but
we
then
upgrade
that
that
methane.
Biogas
is
whether
it's
referred
to
to
biomethane.
With
a
partnership
we
have
with
air
products,
the
material
then
becomes
biomethane.
Now
we
have
a
high
value
methane
content
that
we
then
sell
as
motor
vehicle
fuel.
So,
at
one
of
these
facilities,
in
fact,
at
Alka
San
with
the
numbers
we
calculated,
we
would
produce
four
million
gallons
of
motor
vehicle
fuel
from
the
sludge.
A
A
We've
had
the
problem
with
northeast
ohio,
regional
as
well
we're
their
back-up
plan,
150,000
tons
of
biosolids,
instead
of
them
incinerating
it
could
go
through
our
digester
from
them.
We'd
make
three
and
a
half
million
gallons
of
motor
vehicle
fuel.
Instead
of
buying
energy,
natural
gas
to
burn
energy
in
their
incinerators,
a
260
million
dollar
bad
experiment
that
they're
conducting
right
now,
there's
all
kinds
of
benefits.
Ohio's
number
one
in
fine
particle
air
pollution
not
necessary.
A
A
Here's
an
example
of
a
small
wastewater
treatment
plant,
it's
small!
It's
only
a
six
million
MGD
plant.
Here's
the
bill
last
year
before
we
took
over
for
electric
in
August
here's
their
bill
this
year,
30
Wow
thirty
one
thousand
dollars
last
August
three
hundred
fifteen
dollars
this
August
and
it
would
have
been
zero,
but
we
had
to
change
oil
in
our
generator.
Oh
we're
not
doing
this
I
wish
I
had
your
second
slide
right
now.
That's
a
that's!
A
partnership
for
food
waste
with
insinkerator
insinkerator
is
a
division
of
Emerson
Electric.
A
It's
good
to
have
friends
in
high
places.
It's
25
billion
dollar
company
insinkerator
has
ninety
five
percent
of
the
garbage
disposal
market
in
the
United
States
and
they
went
to
a
bigger
died
disposal
for
commercial
industrial
applications.
They
call
it
grind
to
energy,
here's
some
of
the
partners
that
we
have
USDA
Emerson,
InSinkErator,
Ohio,
State
and
a
large
real
estate
company
forest
city
enterprises.
The
reason
that's
important
is
because
everything
that
we
build
now
is
made
in
America
one
hundred
percent
american
made
and.
A
This
is
a
small
facility
that
we
retrofit.
It
was
a
public-private
partnership
with
the
city
of
Wooster
Ohio,
the
engineering
firm,
said
18
months
and
13
million
dollars.
We
did
it
in
14
weeks
for
seven
and
a
half
million
dollars.
Well,
it's
a
real
success
story
that
facility
city
of
Wooster
Ohio
is
saving
about
nine
hundred
thousand
dollars
a
year
in
operating
expenses.
Right
now,
hey
really
thank
you
for
inviting
us
and
thanks
for
making
this
event
possible.