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As widely reported this week, the EPA has passed a long anticipated set of rules regulating the emission of mercury and other pollutants from cement plants. Reactions have been predictable: dire predictions that the regulations “can’t be met” with existing technologies for certain plants and claims of the billions of dollars the new regulations will cost the industry. Industry spokespersons [...] For the past twenty years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has hosted the Entrepreneurship Competition for new companies founded by MIT graduates in six key areas: products and services, web and IT, energy, development, mobile, and life sciences. The winner of each category competes for the overall grand prize of one-hundred thousand dollars. This year’s energy [...] Control Engineering reports that Cemex has been awarded the Energy Star Partner of the Year award for a second time. Cemex has been an Energy Star partner since 2004, and in 2009 saved more than 1.1. million MMBTU on energy, cutting an equivalent of 107,500 metric tons of CO2 emissions. In a time of economic stress, Cemex, [...] BGE has been hitting the pavement hard in recent weeks serving our customers and exploring opportunities, as a result, the blog has fallen a bit too silent. We won’t let that become a habit (well, serving customers and exploring opportunities are habits we intend to keep). Nevertheless, interesting news has not rested! Through an article on tonic [...] Calera is back in the news with it’s CO2 eating cement made by reacting stack emissions with a magnesium salt rich water solution. The San Francisco Chronical is reporting on his pilot plant and California and the fact that Constantz has managed to get himself invited to speak about Calera to the World of Concrete trade [...] Lehigh Cement will begin voluntarily testing of activated carbon injection technology, commonly used to reduce mercury at power plants, to reduce the emissions at its plant in Union Bridge Maryland. The mercury will be permanently sequestered in the final product. Lehigh believes it can meet the EPA proposal for 2013 mercury levels without negatively impacting the quality of [...] The Green Patent Blog has an interesting analysis of a Harvard developed technology for capture of CO2 that just might generate electricity as [...] Two new studies released today will only serve to increase the public pressure on the EPA to regulate mercury emissions from cement kilns. The first, a USGS study, found mercury contamination in every fish tested from 291 streams across the country and levels in more than two thirds of them were “a concern to fish eating mammals”. [...] It doesn’t happen often, so we should celebrate when the mainstream media praises a waste fuel program. This Tulsa World article includes some very positive statements about the Lafarge tire burning program at the Tulsa plant, and avoids the FUD that normally accompanies such an article (only to provide “balance” of course!) They even make a [...] Here’s an exercise: Make a list of all the industries that have resisted some fundamental change in their business environment, be it regulatory or market driven, on the grounds that the result would be devastating to the business, the job market and ultimately costly for consumers. The industry was just too big, too important, and society [...] |
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