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Landfill Association Hears Proposal for Turning Waste into Electricity
Press Release
August 5, 2002
by Welton Myers and Sterling D. Allan
MANTI, Utah
Creative Energy Systems of Ontario Recycling of New York presented a proposal to members of the
Sanpete County Landfill Association on July 31 and August 1, introducing new technology that if
implemented could clean up the landfills and generate low cost electricity and raw materials for
manufacturing in the process, with no emissions or leaching to the environment. Medical, municipal,
industrial, even radioactive waste could be cleaned up as well using this process. They also
presented smaller-scale technology that could convert tires, medical waste and sewage to
electricity.
Welton Myers, executive director of Creative Energy Systems, explained that the technique combines
several existing technologies in a way that has never been done before. Sanpete could be the first
county in the world to fully implement this revolutionary combination, which is in process of also
being adapted in Rochester, NY; St. George; and Boise, ID. Myers is working with Ephraim resident
Sterling Allan and his associates to help implement these technologies here.
A key component of the high-volume system that could handle as much as 120 tons of waste per hour,
or as low as one ton per hour, in the case of Sanpete County's estimate load, would implement plasma
ark technology developed by Westinghouse that has been in use for over 20 years.
The process entails passing the waste matter through ionic gases activated by plasma torches, which
"essentially amounts to bombarding it with an ion curtain," theorizes Dr. Grant R. Wood,
Senior Engineer for Research and Development at Clear Water Corporation, and one of the primary
inventors of the ion curtain process. "This causes the bonding of the molecules to break,
making it go from a solid-molecular state to an atomic stage, which re-forms into gasses, elemental
metals and silica. The gasses are then burned or turned into oil; and the metals and silica are used
for manufacturing new products."
Myers proposes that one could take the high-temperature gasses that are emitted, cool them with
injection of water, which would immediately turn to steam, creating even more thrust, and then run
this through special jet turbines, which could turn generators for electricity. As the particulate
matter, dissolved in the water, passes out of the turbines, it can then be sent through frequency
resin filters that can then pull off specific elements to also be used as raw materials for
manufacturing.
A portion of this process was demonstrated by Myer's associates in Boise Idaho for one year, using a
smaller-scale tire-burning process. They did not run the outflow through a jet turbine or frequency
resin filters, but exhausted it through a stack, which an EPA-approved engineer measured at 10% of
their emission standards, because the burning process is so efficient.
The addition of the turbine generators and the frequency resin filters are steps that have not yet
been implemented in this particular application; but the technology for those portions are already
in use elsewhere. "It is just a matter of now combining these," said Myers.
Both Ephraim and Fairview's mayors expressed an interest in implementing another variation of the
smaller-scale process presented by Myers. It would take tires and dry sewage in a primary burner at
approximately 400 degrees Fahrenheit, creating a vapor that is then passed into a secondary,
1400-degree pre-heated chamber, which would ignite the vapor, burning it at 3,000 to 3,500 degrees.
This high temperature then instantly vaporizes additional dry sewage in a third stage jet engine
like combustor. The emerging matter would then be combined with water, which would instantly turn to
steam, cooling the outflow as well as adding addition thrust that would then be passed through the
turbines to generate electricity. Medical and industrial waste could also be inserted along with the
sewage in the tertiary burner.
Prior to this procedure, raw sewage is run through a new vortex process that results in 98 percent
of the water being removed. Dry sewage has a BTU output near that of coal.
Ephraim and Fairview are both in process of looking toward expanding their sewage handling
capabilities. Mayor Capserson anticipated that Ephraim city would use the spin-off water from this
process for irrigation. Mayor Worley of Fairview was interested in inserting this process prior to
the new sewage microfiltration system their city is currently securing, which could then pass the
purified water into the culinary system. This could extend the life of the microfiltration system
many-fold and eliminate the need for additional evaporation ponds.
As for possibly implementing a larger-scale version, Creative Energy Systems approached Sanpete
County's Landfill Association about establishing a contract to use their landfills for implementing
a prototype and have an assurance of using their flow of garbage along with the tipping fees or
landfill maintenance funds over an extended period of time so as to insure a return on the
investment of building the necessary machines required.
Creative Energy Systems would then sell the generated electricity to the County Association or to
the cities -- at a rate of approximately 5 cents per kilowatt for both the large-scale and
smaller-scale units.
In both the case of the large and the smaller-scale units, Creative Energy Systems would come up
with private funding, and is not asking either the county or the individual cities to finance this
operation. The particular private placement funding program Creative Energy Systems intends to
implement, as explained to the Landfill Association, is used successfully in many other humanitarian
funding situations, amounting to several trillion dollars worldwide.
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CONTACT:
Sterling D. Allan
email: sterlingda@greaterthings.com
666 S. 60 E.
Ephraim, UT 84627
435-283-6340
fax 734-468-1314
http://www.remnantsaints.com/AlternativeUtilities/
Welton Myers
e-mail: thoren70@hotmail.com
Phone: 716-328-4253.
Ontario Recycling, Inc.
12 Cairn Street
Rochester, NY 14611
www.ontariorecyclinginc.com
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RELEVANT INFORMATION
Waste to Energy by Ion Dissociation, with no Pollution
http://www.remnantsaints.com/AlternativeUtilities/Waste_Energy/
Westinghouse Plasma Technology
http://www.westinghouse-plasma.com/
http://www.westinghouse-plasma.com/projects.htm
http://www.westinghouse-plasma.com/typplsys.htm#Plasma%20Torch
See also
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