Feb042010
Build a power plant, so you can make money from a greenhouse
Filed under Alternative energy by david brooks at 11:49 am
A proposal is being floated for a 30-megawatt wood-burning power plant in Hopkinton - which is fine. The interesting part is that it would also build 20 acres of greenhouses and pump CO2 and excess heat there, to boost growth of whatever the business plan calls for (maybe cut flowers, which make big profit on a per-plant basis, but I’d prefer out-of-season vegetables and fruits). Here’s the Concord Monitor story. This quote is interesting:
The project’s real profit would come from what leaves the greenhouse, not the power plant, Rosen said. As an example, Rosen said, 1 million pounds of organic tomatoes could be grown each year. “We would never do the project for the electricity,” he said. “You can produce an amazing amount of stuff out of greenhouses today.”
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