10-16-2013
Our project intends to explore
the incorporation of waste to energy technologies within communities and
institutions. The main focus of our project is going to be on biomass
digestion. We have found a company called Avatar Energy located in South
Burlington that commercially sells biodigesters to farmers so that they can
collect the biogas from their cow's manure and turn it into energy. Another
local practitioner of waste to energy is Liz Calabrese. She is a professor here
at UVM and teaches a CDAE class regarding ecological design. Her focus is on
communal food waste digesters.
We are most interested in the
design aspect of waste to energy technologies. Specifically, we would like to
study the feasibility of creating an infrastructure based around them. Avatar
would be able to provide us with a perspective from the private sector while
Liz could teach us about the public sector.
