The Power of Wind Helps to Keep Ponds and Lakes Clean

For years farmers and ranchers have struggled with water quality in the farm ponds and lakes.  In most cases the area is too remote to run electricity to in order to power and aerator or fountain and monthly cost of chemicals and treatments can add up, especially for a large pond.  Over the past few years advances in technology have given farm owners hope as wind powered pond aerators are becoming readily available and affordable.  Windmill aerators are typically constructed of galvanizes steel to withstand years of wear and tear from the elements.  Many are made in heights exceeding 20 feet to give the blades more wind access.  Probably the most important achievement is in the area of efficiency.  Many of the windmill aerators on todays market can produce power in as little as 3-5 mph winds.  This means even areas that are typically not windy can benefit from a wind powered aerator.  Construction of these units is a bit labor some, but with a handy crew of a few men one can be assembled in 4-6 hours or so.

First Public Showing of Innovative Waste-to-Energy Process

Vacaville, CA (PRWEB) December 1, 2009 — The first public showing of VRAD©, a new innovative organic waste-to-energy process will take place at the Pacific West Biomass Conference in January.

This biowaste process known as VRAD© accepts all urban farm, factory, commercial, garbage and trash waste streams to produce abundant amounts of clean CBM (compressed biomethane) a gas with a slightly higher Btu value than natural gas.

VRAD© now the first and only completely enclosed, smallest footprint and Environmentally Pure Waste-to-Energy Process. “We could build one next to City Hall”, Miller said with a grin”.
“We have gone the extra mile” said Herman P. Miller II, PE and president of Environmental Developers Inc. (EDI) a Vacaville California Company developer of the patented process. “It took 30 years but we did it”, he continued.

Not only does the Company claim to have the most efficient high temperature biomass digestion system in the world today but the VRAD© Process will produce clean gas, separates out and sequesters the Carbon Dioxide gas, and recycles pure water.

“VRAD© a high tech approach to a typically low tech technology, is applicable to cities and urban areas with excesses of 500-1000 tons a day of biomass refuge. The sale of CBM, water, and other available byproducts, such as Epson Salts and Bicarbonate of Soda, dependent upon the type of feedstock available and market forces will return capital costs in 5-7 years and produce a tidy return to its investors” Miller claims.

The Sacramento, California biomass conference sponsored in part by Biomass Magazine will parade the biomass industries newest offerings at the Hyatt Regency January 11-13, 2010.