Sustainability | Green: Skiing Your Way To Hedonistic Sustainability

Waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen

If you're itching to visit the new waste management plant will open in 2016 in Copenhagen, be sure to bring your skis. Ski urban park will cover the plant, to incinerate the waste from five municipalities of generating heat and electricity for 140,000 households. Although their trash him inside, residents will be able to take a lift to the top of the building, and then ski down one of the three different slopes, graded by difficulty, to run in conjunction about 5,000 feet.

Ski-slope

The new plant will replace the 40-year-old incinerator operated by Amagerforbrnding, waste and energy company. Construction will begin next year. The idea comes from the ski slope Bjarke Ingels Group, the Danish architectural firm was the first prize in design competition for the new plant.Also the ski slope, the plant smokestack 's blow smoke rings every time it fills with 440 pounds of carbon dioxide from flue gas. In a recent interview with National Public Radio, said Bjarke Ingels, founder of the body design, the rings of smoke would turn "the symbol of the corrupted into something playful," while reminding residents of the impact of their consumption.

Mr. Ingels, whose body is also at work on a project in New York, said the plant 'unique designs make the point that sustainability had to be sacrificed. "We try to look at some different ways in which sustainable cities and sustainable buildings actually increase the quality of life," he said. "We call the 'hedonistic sustainability."

The center continues to this new Europe the practice of fashioning waste incineration plants as works of architecture designed urban-industrial sites rather than dull.
Because the plants typically provide electricity with heat for district heating systems, they are best located in dense urban areas. The plants are decorative covers often overcome any negative public perception, as Elisabeth Rosenthal reported last year; the new incinerator is planned for Copenhagen, however, the first person to be dealing with the public in sport.

Although the waste to energy plants extensively in Europe, especially Denmark, Sweden and Germany, their use in the United States is still limited. The Energy Department and 24 states recognize waste as a renewable energy source, making such projects eligible for various incentives. But there are only 87 power generation plants and municipal waste operations, generating less than 1 percent of the nation 's power.High capital costs, abundant open space for landfill sites and groups that advocate recycling rather than incineration at the major obstacles. The recent fiscal problems in Harrisburg, Pa., haven 't helped: the city may be facing bankruptcy because it can not make debt payments on its waste to energy plant.

Nickolas J. Themelis Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University, which was evident in Ms. Rosenthal 'si' article last April, he said there was little change here since then. He indicated in an e-mail, but new facilities built in recent years, and all were expansions of existing facilities. One new plant has been approved in Frederick County, Md., however.Sorry, it won 't have a ski slope.