Old Underwear Factory to Power 10,000 Homes

An abandoned Fruit of the Loom factory in Rabun Gap, Ga. is about to get a new life as a biomass facility. The $21.5 million project will eventually generate 17MW of energy using some of the equipment left behind.

{digg}http://digg.com/environment/Old_Underwear_Factory_to_Power_10_000_Homes{/digg}The plant will produce energy from waste from the local forest industry for non-profit Green Power EMC, a Georgia-based group of utility companies that focus on renewable energy. The waste will be used in a conventional boiler leftover from the underwear factory, which will generate steam that will power a steam-turbine generator. The electricity generated will then be sold to customers of electricity co-ops.

When the plant is completed in August 2009, it is expected to create 95 jobs and power 10,000 homes. Who would have thought that an abandoned underwear factory could create so much good? This is just another great example of the power of the second "R" - reuse. There are solutions to our energy problems all around us, if we just think creatively enough.

via Cleantech

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written by Entertainment, December 30, 2008

It is a great hear "Power from waste". Each and every country should follow this.

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written by Eddles, December 30, 2008

I wonder if the energy generated by this project exceeds the energy used to transport the underwear now having to be imported from China.

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written by Herno, December 30, 2008

so basically they are going to burn wood to boild the water...perfect.

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written by pixonu, January 04, 2009

...in my pants ;) lol

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written by Uncle B, February 14, 2009

Now if we can just protect the workers from exploitation by Unions, real estate sharks. Banking usury, Planned obsolescence in all they purchase, and the many other capitalist traps that spoil an otherwise good thing! G d help America, the very bankers that robbed us, had the nerve to demand bonuses! These poor folk don't stand a chance! They will probably have to pay bribes to get poor paying jobs, only to be raped by a system weighted against them from the get go! The (GRD)great republican depression will change all that, but not without great suffering and a revolution in thought, running counter-current to the forces of capitalism's most powerful tool: influence peddling by advertising! But, I doubt it and see peace and fairness only Post GRD, when a new America rises, reformed, from the ashes of today's America, like a Phoenix, and prospers once again, without capitalists, greedy republican uber rich, and huge military bills, yet democratic, liberal and fair to all!

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