Comments on: County Amps Up The Voltage On Dynamis Deal

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:02:55 +0000

Case appointed.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:26:56 +0000

Rumor around the courthouse is someone is looking into starting a recall election for Yzaguirre. They almost never happen but you never know. They will have my signature.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:24:57 +0000

KTA

“I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny right there”

By: Kappa TA

Kappa TA — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:03:28 +0000

Perhaps the fires can be ignited with Commish Ullman’s Max Dalton Open Government Award.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:39:39 +0000

The Daily paper reports that Dynamis can now bring in 12,000 pounds of tires every day to burn. I’m sure that will be good for the air quality.

From the Daily paper
“On Tuesday morning, the two Ada County Commissioners unanimously approved Agreement No. 9695, which had been added to the agenda about 24 hours earlier. The action took less than a minute and during that time the commissioners didn’t say whom the agreement was with or explain the changes being made, even though reporters, candidates and citizens were in the room.” …”Dynamis CEO Lloyd Mahaffey said earlier the company plans to use tires to fire up the plant to the high operating temperature it needs to process the waste. According to its air quality permit application being reviewed by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Dynamis could process up 12,000 pounds of tires daily.”

Throughout this whole Dynamis deal / scam I’ve been wondering what is in it for Ada County – then I realized it’s more about what is in it for Sharon Ullman and Rick Yzaguirre. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Sharon as a “consultant” for Dynamis the day after she leaves the county.

By: Modern Columbo

Modern Columbo — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:50:11 +0000

We don’t fear new technology we fear this because it is not new technology. The desigm amd patent were done in 1989 and operation of a small unit (1 ton) was performed between 1989 and 1991. The Barrow Alaska plant that they point to was built similar to some degree so they use that as an example. It was built in 1995 and has had a spotty operational history. Now these people believe they can make a unit that is 20 times larger than Barrow using the same design but adding the secondary combustion system and sending to a waste heat boiler to run a steam turbine for power generation. What has never been tested is the burning of tires with this process and the actual heat performance of the secondary combustion unit. If it doesn’t heat sufficiently then more pollutants will enter our atmosphere both from stack emissions as well as water waste from the overwhelmed scrubber system. Dynamis claims it is their proprietary design but that is not true. The patent belongs to Don Kerr’s former partner at Entech Corporation who now has the design for the secondary air combustion chamber. Check US Patent 6439135. You won’t find Dynamis there but you can read about the design. New technology from 1997. I beleive there is a very good reason this has not been built in all these years as it does not work. That is why all the back room approvals. It doesn’t pass the sniff test.

By: erico49

erico49 — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:35:21 +0000

Chicago.. thanks for the reminder on Hoku. I can’t remember what incentives they got from the state and local governments, but I am sure they did. Let’s not forget the solar farm that was to be built by the airport. It was to be up and running by this time. Also, please remember that the landfill has capacity estimated at more than 70 years–and that was before the volume of waste dropped off because of the recession. Bottom line–the plant won’t ever get built. DEQ won’t have enough detail to issue an air permit. The County won’t get our money back. And who knows what the technologies will be in the next 70 years.

By: Nuff Said

Nuff Said — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:08:37 +0000

Why are people so afraid of new technology that they salivate at the chance to kill it before it grows? Converting trash to energy is not a bad idea. Reducing the amount of trash in a landfill is not a bad idea. So what’s your beef? Nuff Said.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 23 May 2012 02:22:57 +0000

What in the world is Sharon doing?
She is a lame duck office holder and should not be making decisions like this.

How about a public records request for just what the county purchased in the dyamis agreement. Not jut the agreement but the actual WORK PRODUCT.

Propitary is another word for “can’t be patented”. So far all I have seen is smoke and mirrors with Mr. Mahaffey. Somebody needs to pull back the curtain on this matter for some public review and sunshine.

By: chicago sam

chicago sam — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:29:05 +0000

I see the other energy debacle HOKU according to Rocky Barker is on the ropes again. Once again the hand Of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission is evident as they were responsible for forcing Idaho Power to renegotiate the power contract after HOKU defaulting on their power agreement. Dynamis would never have gotten this far if IPUC had not ok’d an overly generous contract which provides Dynamis with above market rates for electrical power produced. Of course PUC is impartial—they give above market rates to everybody who says they are renewable