Reviewing the comments from my previous posts and looking for information online, I have discovered that biomass energy does not appeal to many people. The main objection that people have with this fasinating energy source is that it is very dirty and harmful to the environment. Personally, I use to to believe the same thing and believed the only benefit of this technology is that it is affordable and arguably substainable.
However, at a company called AES (Alternative Energy Solutions), they have developed a generator for businesses to turn their waste into energy. Based on a combination of steam and biomass power, the company has created a system in which they can turn common commerical waste into enough energy to power the business. Furthermore, they claim that there is no unwanted emission and all “waste” products from the generator is resaleable for other commercial uses.
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Companies such as AES is a great step towards a sustainable solution towards having an alternative energy source avaliable. I find that this company’s website is especially effective because they show a typical project and the amount of money that another company can save by using their biomass energy generator (Click here to see comparision).
Currently, the government is doing a very good job exposing the need to reduce energy use to the general public, but I don’t think their incentivities for businesses is strong enough. Since companies focuses mainly on generating profit, AES’s appoarch to demonstrating cost cutting will be a great motivation for businesses to switch to a cleaner and more sustainable energy source.
Image retrieved from http://www.aesenergy.net/electricity/index.html on June 11, 2009.
