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Presentation to the Business
Council for Sustainable Energy &
the House Climate Change Caucus
Thomas R. Casten
Chairman, Recycled Energy Development, LLC
March 6, 2008
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Homer Simpson’s Power Plant
(Springfield, ?)
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Electric Generation Plant
(Craig, CO)
Two-thirds of the fuel’s energy is vented to atmosphere.
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Inefficient US Electric Generation
Related Headlines:
100%
“Recent Warming of Arctic may Affect World
Climate”
90%
-NASA
80%
“US Manufacturing Jobs Fading Away Fast”
Efficiency
70%
60%
50%
Wasted Energy
Excess Costs
-USA Today
Energy Costs Push Consumer Prices Higher”
Excess Pollution
-Associated Press
40%
30%
20%
U.S. Delivered Electric Efficiency
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US Electric Power
Sector’s CO2 Emissions
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Percent of Total US CO2 Emissions
Electric Generation’s Increasing
Contribution to Domestic CO2 Emissions
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US Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2005
Breakdown of Emitting Sources:
Other Transport
12%
Electricity
42%
Cars
19%
Thermal
27%
Heat & Power;
69% of all fossil
fuel CO2 emissions
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Combined Heat and Power
Pollution
33 units
Waste
Energy
Fuel
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units
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Thermal
Energy
CHP Plant
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Electricity
Recycle
Waste
Heat
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Useful
Work
End User
Site
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Efficiencies of Energy Recycling
Projects
100%
90%
Industrial Waste Heat Recovery
(6 Projects)
80%
Steam Pressure Recovery
(190 Projects)
Efficiency
70%
60%
50%
Combined Heat & Power
(56 Projects)
40%
30%
20%
U.S. Delivered Electric Efficiency
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95 MW of Waste Heat Recycled
from Coke Production (Gary, IN)
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Figure 1 - Energy Recycling at Mittal Steel, East Chicago, Indiana
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Silicon Production (Alloy WV)
• Plant uses 135 MW
• $60 million investment
• Recycles exhaust into 44
megawatts
• Plant will use power to
expand production by 20%
• We are taking silicon
production back from China!
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US Energy Recycling (CHP)
Potential
• EPA and DOE studies identify 200,000
megawatts CHP and waste industrial energy
recycling potential
• Capital investment of $350 billion
• Annual societal savings of $70 billion
• Profitably eliminate 1.4 gigatons of CO2
emissions
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Why Does Inefficiency Prevail?
• Energy laws are outmoded, designed before
climate change was an issue
• Changing laws difficult because old rules create
strong vested interests
• There are more winners than losers
• The health of our country and the planet
depend on how fast the government
modernizes energy regulations to give clean
energy a chance.
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Thank You
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