Sustainability - never has a word had so many meanings, to so many different people.
Bioenergy - never has a word connected so many people, across an entire nation.
It's not just what these two words together can produce, but what these two words combined,
can help us to save. Let us show you how.
A heart beats like a rolling thunder
'Rise up!' it cries 'shake your slumber'
Heed the bell toll
And sunder chains from souls
Breathe sweet release,
We're off our knees and unbound
Slaves to no one now
La vie Boheme for us
To them we're outlaws, 'hedon' pariahs all
'Cause when the night falls,
We come alive
Oh, we'd never make it
Inside of your walls
We burn at both ends,
Cannot be fenced in
We're made of lightning
We are igniting
Peter O'Brien (Indian River County (FL) Commission, District 4): In Indian River County, we've
been really excited to have INEOS build their bioenergy plant here, for a lot of reasons.
We think it put Vero Beach and Indian River County on the map, as a leader in sustainable
technology.
Nigel Falcon (INEOS Bio, Vero Beach, FL): Our aim is to develop this technology, not
only to use the vegetative waste but also household, dispose of these materials, and
turn them into sustainable green fuel.
Jim Harris, Director of Operations (INEOS Bio, Vero Beach, FL): We have a large landfill
right next to us, and you know, what you have to do, is you can see it from I-95 traveling
south, and you just have to drive by it to realize, sooner or later this thing is going
to fill up and create a problem.
Donny Shultz, Asset Superintendent (INEOS Bio, Vero Beach, FL): What we need is a circle
of life, and basically that's what we have here, is we're taking our waste streams and
our waste products, and using that to create electricity, which we need to progress as
a society, and of course, for fuel for our vehicles.
Bodie Drake (Algenol, Fort Myers, FL): If we use unique ways like we've developed here
at Algenol, where we capture that carbon back out of the atmosphere, and use it again for
fuels, it actually makes the recycling loop so we are actually recycling carbon through
the atmosphere, through algae, and ethanol.
Kofi Dalrymple, Senior Engineer (Algenol, Fort Myers, FL): We're developing new technologies
to go after fuel that we haven't gone after, that minimizes the impact on the environment.
Paul Woods, Founder and CEO (Algenol, Fort Myers, FL): And one thing we did here at Algenol,
is we actually did testing of that algae in the environment in advance of us using it
outside. The algae is never invasive to Florida, and to me, that's exceptionally important
that we did that study in advance.
Tim Volk (SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY): We've been able to build on a long history of research
at SUNY-ESF, studying willow as a biomass and bioenergy crop. And then what we've done
is taken that information and been able to apply it to this site.
John McAuliffe (Honeywell, Syracuse, NY): If we had installed just a standard engineered
cover, it would require plastic liner and it would require hundreds of thousands of
cubic yards of imported material -- a huge carbon footprint.
Tim: There's lots of these attributes of willow that are brought to bear in this kind of situation,
in this kind of condition, that makes this really a very sustainable solution, but also
broadens it in terms of bringing sustainable and renewable biomass into the community.
Jim Dooley (Forest Concepts, Auburn, WA): Here in Seattle, we're surrounded by forests,
we're surrounded in our urban centers with greenbelts, parks, street trees, incredible
residential landscapes. And then, the public forests and private forests that surround
all of the cities of the Northwest collectively produce tremendous amounts of organic wastes
of various types. That's a resource that could be turned into biofuel, liquid fuels, or thermal
energy. Feedstocks that we work with span the range of purpose feedstocks, like starting
from logs, short rotation forestry, poplar plantation trees. So, our objective as a company
is, how do you take each of these materials and minimize the investment of capital in
energy. And, how do you develop conversion or processing methods that reduce the technical
risk and the operation risk for everybody in supply chain.
Steve Romey (Farmer, Hugoton, KS): Our goal is not to make this unstable for our standpoint,
where we hurt the soil from an erosion standpoint. We want that to be sustainable, where you
can come back next year and remove more residue again.
Derek Wiggins (Abengoa, Hugoton, KS): We have something else that nobody else has ever done
on this size. I mean, I've gotten 10 years of college experience in... you know... two
years that I've been here.
Jack Rowden (Mayor, Hugoton, KS): Over the last eight years, it's amazing the new businesses
that have come in. Part of that certainly has to be contributed to Abengoa.
Debbie Nordling, (Resident, Hugoton, KS): You know, just like with the Abengoa project,
it becomes personal and you want them to do well. Because if they do well, we do well.
We are connected.
This is possible.
It works.
We are connected.
Growing energy.
We are connected.
The next generation.
My family is here to stay.
We are connected.
The whole picture.
Conservation agriculture.
I love forests.
Renewable and sustainable biofuels.
We are connected.
There's no such thing as waste.
Bioenergy.
We are connected.
Get involved!
Oh rebel hearts unite
When the night falls,
We come alive
Oh, we'd never make it
Inside of your walls
We burn at both ends,
Cannot be fenced in
We're made of lightning
We are igniting
Oh rebel hearts unite
We're made of lightning
We are igniting
Oh rebel hearts ignite
We're made of lightning
Wild and blinding