Dorset Against Rural Turbines
Assessing the facts and acting before it's too late.
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Purbeck Hills:
The tiny, intermittent output of electricity and the negligible CO2 savings from the proposed East Stoke wind turbines cannot possibly justify the huge sacrifice of that most finite resource - our countryside. It is our duty to protect our rural heritage for present and future generations from such gross and unnecessary industrialization.
Combined Heat and Power
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A real alternative for Dorset
Dorset Green Winfrith
New Earth Energy has recently submitted a Planning Application to Dorset County Council for a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facility at Dorset Green Technology Park, near Wool, which was previously known as Winfrith Technology Centre.
The CHP plant will be a Renewable Energy facility with a feedstock of partially-treated domestic waste that will thus be used as a resource rather than being sent to landfill which is presently taxed at £48/ton and soon to rise to £72/ton. The facility could also be powered with other biomass fuels such as willow coppice or miscanthus. It will consist of ten independent units which will produce a total of 10 Megawatts of electricity for the National Grid (no new pylons will be needed) and 10 Megawatts of heat to be used for the central heating of buildings throughout the site at Dorset Green.
The facility will be highly flexible and if more, or indeed less, fuel becomes available then the number of units could be easily be increased or decreased.
The four proposed industrial wind turbines at Masters Pit have a nominal rating of 9.2 Megawatts. However, as the wind does not blow all the time, this figure must be multiplied by the Government figure of 23 % for the load factor in Dorset and they would, in practice, produce an average output of 2 Megawatts. Even this small amount of electricity would be intermittent and totally unpredictable.
The CHP plant will produce at least TEN TIMES as much power and run consistently twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. Furthermore, it will be unobtrusively sited at a business park unlike the wind turbines which would be on top of a hill and visible from many miles away.
The facility will be built in two phases. It will be sited at the northwest corner of the Park amongst other buildings of comparable size. Exhaust gasses will be efficiently scrubbed and the output will be monitored by the Environment Agency to ensure that there is no damage to the nearby heathland, nor to the health of local residents.
Domestic waste is sorted at the New Earth Waste Processing Plant at Canford where plastics and recyclable materials such as glass and metals are removed by mechanical sorting. This partially-treated waste, which consists mainly of non-recyclable paper and cardboard, food waste and textiles, will be used as the feedstock for the CHP facility. There it will be pyrolysed (that is heated to about 950 degrees Celsius in the absence of oxygen) to produce mainly hydrogen and methane which will then be burned in a series of gas engines to produce electricity for the National Grid and heat for the buildings in the Park.
Sorting the feedstock at Canford will keep traffic at Dorset Green to a minimum
There will be the equivalent of 6 lorry movements per hour (3 in and 3 out) over an 8 hour day when the construction of Phase 2 is eventually complete."
The timetable is flexible and Phase 2 depends on locating the necessary feedstock. It may be some time before this is built.
It is hoped to get the facility at Dorset Green up and running towards the end of this year.
Dr John Larkin
New Earth Energy has recently submitted a Planning Application to Dorset County Council for a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facility at Dorset Green Technology Park, near Wool, which was previously known as Winfrith Technology Centre.
The CHP plant will be a Renewable Energy facility with a feedstock of partially-treated domestic waste that will thus be used as a resource rather than being sent to landfill which is presently taxed at £48/ton and soon to rise to £72/ton. The facility could also be powered with other biomass fuels such as willow coppice or miscanthus. It will consist of ten independent units which will produce a total of 10 Megawatts of electricity for the National Grid (no new pylons will be needed) and 10 Megawatts of heat to be used for the central heating of buildings throughout the site at Dorset Green.
The facility will be highly flexible and if more, or indeed less, fuel becomes available then the number of units could be easily be increased or decreased.
The four proposed industrial wind turbines at Masters Pit have a nominal rating of 9.2 Megawatts. However, as the wind does not blow all the time, this figure must be multiplied by the Government figure of 23 % for the load factor in Dorset and they would, in practice, produce an average output of 2 Megawatts. Even this small amount of electricity would be intermittent and totally unpredictable.
The CHP plant will produce at least TEN TIMES as much power and run consistently twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week. Furthermore, it will be unobtrusively sited at a business park unlike the wind turbines which would be on top of a hill and visible from many miles away.
The facility will be built in two phases. It will be sited at the northwest corner of the Park amongst other buildings of comparable size. Exhaust gasses will be efficiently scrubbed and the output will be monitored by the Environment Agency to ensure that there is no damage to the nearby heathland, nor to the health of local residents.
Domestic waste is sorted at the New Earth Waste Processing Plant at Canford where plastics and recyclable materials such as glass and metals are removed by mechanical sorting. This partially-treated waste, which consists mainly of non-recyclable paper and cardboard, food waste and textiles, will be used as the feedstock for the CHP facility. There it will be pyrolysed (that is heated to about 950 degrees Celsius in the absence of oxygen) to produce mainly hydrogen and methane which will then be burned in a series of gas engines to produce electricity for the National Grid and heat for the buildings in the Park.
Sorting the feedstock at Canford will keep traffic at Dorset Green to a minimum
There will be the equivalent of 6 lorry movements per hour (3 in and 3 out) over an 8 hour day when the construction of Phase 2 is eventually complete."
The timetable is flexible and Phase 2 depends on locating the necessary feedstock. It may be some time before this is built.
It is hoped to get the facility at Dorset Green up and running towards the end of this year.
Dr John Larkin
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