The former executive director of Rhode Island’s Economic Development Corporation wants to build a biomass to renewable energy plant along Providence’s waterfront on Allens Avenue, but he said the city needs to commit to freezing commercial tax rates to make the project happen.
As we prepare to usher in a new adminstration in City Hall, we should commit ourselves to spending the next four-years on a cohesive plan to expand jobs and industries along our waterfront, and integrate that...
The city has released their Waterfront Plan and accompanying website and blog. I haven’t had a chance to delve into it much, so I’m just putting this here for conversation, not my commentary (for now). The...
Providence River from New Providence River Bridge. Tonight at Save The Bay’s headquarters a group of RISD students will present their findings on recent research of waterfront cities. From The Providence Journal:...
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Jef Nickerson
Interesting – so natures TDP in essence. TDP is Thermal Depolymerization. Can extract oil from just about anything including plastics, garbage, etc. Outputs are a clean oil that can be burned, and carbon which can be stored.
I think it’d be cool to have it here in Providence.
Incineration by any name is still a bad polluter and a waste of resources. Anything that is burnable can be recycled or composted for greater benefit.
Yes, anything burnable can be recycled, reused and/or composted, but the question is: is there a market for it? If there isn’t a market for it, it ends up being warehoused or thrown away.
If there is no market it is a market failure so lets create one instead of wsting resources. Planet Earth is too small to be able to afford the waste