NGB Technologies to generate power from household waste

Each $3.5 million facility can serve four 30-storey high-rises, and electricity will be sold to tenants at half the IEC rate.

NGB Technologies For Industry & Conveying Ltd. has started representing Vista International, which is proposing alternative energy projects in residential neighborhoods. Under the proposal, the company will collect garbage and sludge resulting from sewage treatment, and incinerate it to generate electricity. The company plans to sell the electricity to residents, as alternative energy. Each $3.5 million facility can serve four 30-storey high-rises. The 100-sq.m. installations are built underground, above which a park can be built.
NGB Technologies CEO Meni Shani believes that the company can obtain discounts on local property taxes interested in installing the facilities, because local authorities can save of garbage disposal and sewage treatment costs. He said electricity produced by the generators could be sold to residents at $0.045 per kilowatt/hour, half the rate charged by Israel Electric Corporation (IEC). The lower rate is made possible by subsidies the power producers will obtain from the Ministry of National Infrastructures alternative energy encouragement fund.

Shani predicts that the generators will make a make back the investment within five years. A pilot facility is currently operating in China. He said a similar facility would soon be built in the US, where operating standards have already been set. Israel currently lacks operating standards for building similar facilities.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on December 4, 2005

This is really great news.... i mean.... waste...who would have thought.....

but i think right now its not in the mature stage and i hope it will come out in a hybrid type mode...you know...when it gets overly cold (like -42) than the gas heater will come in!

^^ -42.. most of the world doesnt have this problem :) as you know..

^^ -42.. most of the world doesnt have this problem :) as you know..


:( you guys never think about me, -42 and the issues i face each winter!!! :cry:

^^ well what can we do, here its supposed to be winter and in jerusalem yesterday it was the warmest day ever in winter with 29c... we are walking again in t-shirts..
we want a drop of rain so we cant identify with -42c.. anyway these rooms will be underground and waste generates heat so probably wont reach that temprature..

How can you live in -42... it sounds nasty

Something I wondered about - does this result in complete burn, or does it have particle emissions? because if it does, this is really problematic.

Something I wondered about - does this result in complete burn, or does it have particle emissions? because if it does, this is really problematic.


From howstuffworks it says you have a generator that gives off, but i dont think its emission..the heat makes it boost up the compustion and as such..you get heat? no?

^^ well what can we do, here its supposed to be winter and in jerusalem yesterday it was the warmest day ever in winter with 29c... we are walking again in t-shirts..
we want a drop of rain so we cant identify with -42c.. anyway these rooms will be underground and waste generates heat so probably wont reach that temprature..

How can you live in -42... it sounds nasty

Its good :)
when your i na club, and you jug a smirnoff ice..
think of me, well ya? :jk:

From howstuffworks it says you have a generator that gives off, but i dont think its emission..the heat makes it boost up the compustion and as such..you get heat? no?


what i meant is when you burn solid matter, you usually don't get a compelete combustion - that's the black/gray stuff that comes out of the chimney - small particles of unburnt matter. they're very hazardous to your health. this happens in coal power plants, and oil power plants, and they use badass filters costing millions to clear up the stuff. somehow i don't think that each building will have those - resulting in dangerous air pollution.