Biosphere in construction in China and artist rendition of water treatment and biosphere facility.
Source: Spectrum Blue Steel
A new "biosphere"green energy company is investing $84 milllion in Morong town. Todays podcast is RSG's interview with Atty. Ruth P. Briones, CEO of Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation. She explained her company's 25 year agreement with Mayor Buenaventura. Listen as she describe the economic impact to the town and how Morong landfill will become an example of zero waste facility not just in the country but in Asia.
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Show Notes
QUESTIONS
Please tell us about yourself and your roles in Spectrum Blue Steel Corporation?
Tell us about biosphere?
Could you give an example wherein this type of CO2 harvesting is being used? What country?
Syngas (CO2, Hydrogen, Nitrogen )
What environmental costs in putting Syngas facility in Morong OR
What environmental impacts could this giant facility have?
Why have you chosen Morong? Why not Rodriguez or Montalban?
Besides Morong, do you have any other biospere facilty in operation in the Philippines?
How much energy will this facility produce?
How much metric tons of solid waste will be needed to produce this much energy.
You think that the Morong sanitary Landfill will have enough waste to produce ??? MW of energy?
What will be your company's outlook in the Morong landfill, 5 years, 10 years from now?
Once your company starts producing energy from the Morong landfill who will be your custumers?
How many jobs, Spectrum Blue Steel generating in Morong facility?
Tell us more about the Memorandum of Agreement between Morong through Mayor Buenaventura and Spectrum Blue Steel?
What's the role of Provincial government on this this MOA?
What is your relationship with the builder of Morong Engineered Sanitary Landfill (Basic Environmental Systems and technologies (BEST)?
How much if any, will the town of Morong will get from the revenue generated by this facility?
How long is the contract?
How much is your company investing? How long will you recover that investment?
Jobs, Marching of dump trucks, San Guillermo affected.
Would you, Atty Ruth Briones, live next to the biosphere facility like the one being planned in Morong? As you know we have subdivisions in that area.
ANSWERS
Engineer and lawyer, Founder of Spectrum Blue Steel, her legacy
Morong, Rizal is the pilot for biosphere, gassification process, ways of treating waste, incineration - prohibited in Philippines, emits toxic materials
Biosphere, waste in the chamber at 400 deg C, product goes to second chamber at higher temp, photo?? ash to produce carbon blocks or cement, end product of high temperature could be used to generate energy, partnered with Ronald Flynn from US, zero waste
Syngas, product of thermal transformation, at hight temperature, turbine, "synthesis gas", organic fertilizer, synthetic gas
Morong landfill, 10-40 hectares, revenues to town, environmental cost or impact to town, water, another product, will be producing 53,000 gallons of water per hour, carbon zero emission, higher credit , 30 MW equals to 30 tons of carbon credits, Kyoto protocol, environmental issues, industial pollutants, committed to contribute, pay for the pollution they have commited, countries produce machines, operate that has zero carbon, producing carbon credit, clean air, industry will compensate producer
Why Morong? Montalban will be closing, will be transfered to Morong, MMDA, governor of Rizal, Cuerpo, feuding, political differences, incinerator not accepted in the town, proximity of biosphere to Morong landfill, will be using areas, transform the area to clean part, closed facility, no garbage intact, no waste to see, no emission, bio mass technology compare to Payatas,
will operate 500 up to 1500 facilities in the Philippines, cheap electricity, zero tax operation, 50 less than what we're paying currently, will be producing 700 MW per day or 40 MG per hour, solid waste, 1200 tons per day = 700 MW, 4000 tons per day currently, still negotiating, talking to the hauler, landfill will be used by not just MMDA but also other towns in Rizal
enough waste to produce energy, from 4 towns to MMDA, solid waste will never stop, hindi mapupuno ang landfill, no waiting trucks waiting daily, scheduled, not involve in hauling, only in renewable energy, mayors have own contractors,
could produce plenty of local jobs, big group of people, Mayor Buenaventura, from dead town, not the Morong town now, what more with this kind of development, will be window of Asian biosphere, it could be a new city, prioritizing local fols for the job, part of the agreement and contract
MOA, 25 year contract, Morong will assist in establishment, give people to coordinate, provide security, local labor, Morong town will get the share of end product, revenue, role of provincial government, silent, never requires to be part of, quarreling on the revenue, feud, Governor Ynares, function of solid waste is a direct action of the Mayor, its the law, not provincial, no law to talk to provincial government, Mercado
20% of income to Morong, will get another machine after 25 years, not BOT, build and transfer, $84 million facility, investment recover trough carbon credit
Would Atty Ruth Briones, live next to biosphere facility? Yes! walang problema, zero waste, living near Payatas, familiar with the pollution, mabaho, trucks marching to San Guillermo?,
other end products: ash, distilled water, carbon block, organic fertilizer, green energy
Final words, biospeher process is a revolutionary facility in the Philippines, carbon negative, clean energy, it has zero taxation, for investors, has plans for the whole country, plan to make Philippines zero waste energy, Mayalsia, Korea, Indonesia, Spain, Argentina, in US, licensed in Nevada, California, Utah.. I'm going to meet you there.
Your message to Morong community. Nagpapasalamat kay Mayor Buenaventura, promdi, make Morong a zero waste landfill
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Related Websites
Syngas Wiki
Biosphere Wiki
Kyoto Protocol
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