Minnesota Governor Praises Minnesota RC&D

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty praises the Laurentian Resource Conservation and Development’s (RC&D) Renewable Energy Clean Air Project (NRCS photo -- click to enlarge)

Nearly a hundred individuals from all over the State of Minnesota heard Governor Tim Pawlenty praise the Laurentian Resource Conservation and Development’s (RC&D) Renewable Energy Clean Air Project (RECAP) as an outstanding example of what local community leaders need to do the reinvigorate and energize their communities. “We need to have leaders who are not happy with the status quo,” Pawlenty said at the Summer Meeting of the Minnesota Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils (MARC&D) luncheon hosted by the Laurentian RC&D and the MARC&D.

“Control your own destiny,” Governor Pawlenty said highlighting the link between economic development and the enthusiasm of local leadership.

RECAP runs on a plasma gasification system where organic waste is converted to a fuel gas in an extremely high temperature, oxygen deprived setting.  The fuel or "syngas" still contains all the chemical and heat energy from the waste that can be used to fire steam turbine generators.  This process could significantly increase domestic energy production while reducing much of the waste that would ordinarily wind up in the nation's landfills.
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