Thank you Rollon. EQT website says that the unit is in an advanced stage of construction and financial close has been reached. Tantalising.....could be just the news this share needs to reclaiming lost ground on the sp front.
Re aputure post (13.30)
Not sure if PHE DMG technology uses the Fischer-Tropsch (TP) process. VLS manufactures FT reactors and sells them I believe. I think they are involved in a TP process plant being built in Japan and one in USA. Ive also read that DMG technology has been approved in Japan. I havent read a description of DMG though so not sure what PHE uses if its not FT reactors. The intellectual property for the FT reactor lies i believe with VLS.
From the Arden EQT report they highlight the possible outputs from the EQT technology beyond combined heat and power.
.....This syngas can be used to generate high
efficiency electricity, heat or steam for industrial processes, or low
emissions liquid biofuels via a Fischer-Tropsch gas-to-liquids process.
Whether EQT can do this now Im not sure. Maybe Arden are just highlighting that EQT plant could, rather than do, accommodate FP reactors.
Any clarification most definitely appreciated.
how is California creating the hydrogen economy. Hot of the press
https://www.engineerlive.com/content/how-california-creating-hydrogen-economy
Its probably worth pointing out that California has a 3.2 trillion dollar economy, the largest in the States and taken individually would be the 5th largest in the world behind Germany, Japan, China and USA of course. So .......not a bad place to be selling electricity generators and waste/environment management systems. The massive forest fires there have galvanised the political will and the state is heavily into green initiatives and the hydrogen economy. North Fork could be a tremendous demonstration of the value of EQT's plant and once up and running could start to sell itself. Really whats not to like especially with EQTs seemingly ridiculous market cap. But will it get snapped????
Going back over the previous press releases for this project I was particularly impressed with this statement from with EQT's partner Phoenix Energy about many more projects in California.
Gregory Stangl, Chief Executive Officer of Phoenix, commented:
"The technology developed by EQTEC represents a repeatable, scalable solution that could have a big impact on California's tree mortality crisis and related climate challenges. We are delighted to have a partner who shares a vision for building out a network of distributed biomass generation."
Whoever set fire to the huge Heyope tyre dump near Knighton, Powys, in 1989 could have had little idea that the action would enter the record books. Almost 13 years later, Britain's longest burning tyre fire smoulders gently on.
The tyres - all 10m of them - lie in a deep wooded valley in the Welsh borders. They are packed too densely for firefighters to extinguish and there are no flames, but temperature readings confirm the intense heat generated below the surface. Wisps of acrid black smoke occasionally drift up from the mass of rubber.
Scrap tyres are about to become the latest headache for a government still smarting from the debacle over its newly-created fridge mountain. A European directive will ban landfills of whole tyres by next year and shredded tyres by 2006. The option of dumping tyres in places like Heyope will be closed and new ways will have to be found to dispose of the 13m tyres that are stockpiled or put in landfills every year. The problem is huge. The number of tyres in use is forecast to increase by up to 60% by 2021, as the number of vehicles rises. Every day, 100,000 are taken off cars, vans, trucks, buses and bicycles. It is widely estimated that there are now more than 200m lying around.
"By their very nature, tyres are difficult to dispose off," says David Santillo, from the Greenpeace research laboratories, based at Exeter University. "They are designed not to fall apart while you're driving along the motorway, so they are one of the more intractable issues."
Although tyres remain substantially intact for decades, some of their components can break down and leach. Environmental conern centres on the highly toxic additives used in their manufacture, such as zinc, chromium, lead, copper, cadmium and sulphur.
The environment agency is launching a campaign later this month to alert the public and indus try to the need to prolong the life of existing tyres and find new recycling methods. "You can find landfill sites that cover an entire valley, with black as far as the eye can see," says an agency spokesman. "We have always viewed tyres as a resource, rather than something to be dumped."
The best use of tyres is probably to retread them, but this is now expensive, and fewer than ever are recycled in this way. According to the Used Tyre Working Group, a joint industry and government initiative sponsored by the main tyre industry associations, just 18% of Britain's tyres are retreaded. A further 48,500 tonnes are converted into "crumb rubber", used in carpet underlay and to make surfaces such as those on running tracks and children's playgrounds.
More controversially, a further 18% are burnt as a "replacement fuel" in the manufacture of cement. This is fast becoming the most popular way of disposing of them, but it is of increasing concern to environmentalists and scientists.
"Tyre burning emits ultra-fine particles that have a toxicity all of their own," says Vyvyan Howard, senior lecturer in toxicop