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Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park in Chicago, photographed on August 27, 2010. Image via Wikipedia
Becoming and staying green is a difficult task for any city to accomplish, and particularly for one as large and sprawling as Chicago. This metropolis, however, doesn’t appear to be allowing the difficulty of the task to serve as an impediment. With a continued effort toward increasing the sustainability of the Chicago landscape, a movement has been spearheaded to adopt a new natural gas production process, referred to as gasification. This effort, which has been titled the Chicago Clean Energy Project, promises to not just green up Chicago but to also have a positive economic effect on the city as well.
Stabilizing Energy Costs
Along with reducing the negative impact of Chicago’s energy consumption on the planet, advocates of this plan argue it will help stabilize energy costs. The cost of natural gas is continually in flux, making it hard for consumers to predict how much they’ll end up paying for their fuel usage. This plan, which would lead to the production of an alternate natural gas supply whose production is less detrimental to the environment, would eliminate this up and down movement of gas prices.
Because this natural gas stand-in would be sold to Chicagoans at a flat rate, residents would know how much they’d be paying for their natural gas each month, instead of being dependent upon the constantly wavering market. This, proponents argue, would make it easier for consumers to budget effectively.
Bringing Jobs to Chicago
Advocates of the Clean Energy Project believe it would bring jobs to the city. If adopted, this plan would call for the creation of gasification facilities. These facilities could employ thousands of Chicago workers. Additionally, other businesses may be drawn to the city due to the promise of consistent natural gas prices, potentially bringing in jobs in subsidiary industries as well. Because increased joblessness historically leads to increased crime rates, this influx of jobs could potentially reduce the overall level of crime in the city. This in turn could make Chicago an even more attractive home base for businesses looking to lay down roots.
Bolstering Tourism
As more and more eyes turn to green energy in an attempt to avert planetary disaster, an increasing number of travelers seek to venture to green destinations. Advocates of this bill argue that greening up Chicago by adopting the legislation won’t just have a positive impact on Chicago’s cleanliness and energy usage levels; it will also prove as a tourism enticement causing more potential tourists—both regional and international—to choose Chicago. In a city that already benefits immensely from tourist dollars, this additional impact would serve as a bonus worthy of consideration.
Reducing the detrimental impact of humans on the environment is a seemingly endless task. While far from a fix-all solution, those pushing for Governor Quinn to sign this plan into law argue that the benefits associated with it are too numerous to dismiss. With the promise of reducing the carbon footprint of Chicagoans, bringing jobs, inviting in business, reducing crime rates and even drawing more tourists to this destination city, the Chicago Clean Energy Project is a solution that could be a reasonable fit for this environmentally conscious city.
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Natural gas is used to heat most large buildings, but the boilers used to create the hot water or steam are only 80% energy efficient, so 20% or more of the natural gas consumed goes up the chimney as wasted hot exhaust.
The technology of Condensing Flue Gas Heat Recovery is a 30 year proven technology that is designed to recover almost all of the heat energy out of these waste exhaust gases, so that this recovered energy can still be used as space heating or to heat the domestic water, or even the swimming pool water.
Chicago can be a city to show America how efficiently natural gas really can be consumed.