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By Jed Duvall
Special to the Rappahannock News
Two engineers from different towns in Virginia are among the many energy pioneers displaying their works this coming Saturday at the Piedmont Alternative Energy Expo at the Fauquier County Fairgrounds.
One of these groundbreaking designers produces energy on a large scale by turning the contents of a landfill into useful, clean energy. Another captures the sun’s energy to run portable power packs.
Brad Schneider has big plans for your garbage. Schneider finds value in all that stuff you throw out. Old shoes, egg shells, broken shoelaces, grass cuttings, leaves from trees, leaves from dining tables. Sealing wax and edible snacks. Eveiything that is not metal or glass appeals to the engineer in Brad Schneider. Eveiything, including animal waste, droppings, pasture residue - to say it nicely.
By the truckload, by the ton, by the thousand ton, by the entire landfill, this engineer sees gold. Where you see a pile of refuse, he sees energy. A heap of eneigy.
Schneider, who hails from the Midwest, had a stint at the Siemens Company, and now runs his own firm, Recovered Eneigy Systems. It is not a big company, but it rides atop a very large idea.
The company has designed a gasification process that turns household and agricultural and industrial waste - in massive tonnage amounts — into eneigy that RER’s gasification process offers, steam, or electricity, or diy heat, or chilled water—customer’s choice.
RER will run a full-scale test of a gasification system at the end of May, fully powering fill the operations at a U. S. Air Force base in Carterville, Illinois. For two days the facility will run on cow manure. Two days later will come
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