With a shop vac, some metal, a few pipes, a generator and wood chips, you can produce electricity. If you know how to combine those things properly. The process itself is older technology, said chris jeffries. Its very simple. Chris jeffries created this gasifier. He explained the process as using the shop vac to create negative pressure, while wood waste is heated in a separate large cyclinder where gasses from unburned wood are then siphoned into a filter before feeding a generator. Its a controlled combustion, a controlled pyrolysis, said chris jeffries. The city of south sioux city, nebraska, plans to plug in this technology. Were trying to be selfsufficient and go as green as possible, said rod koch. Mayor rod koch says using this gasifier will save the city 40,000 a year in electric costs. It saves us from having to dispose of trees that are eventually going to die anyways because of this emerald borer ash, said rod koch. The unit will be much larger than this and will be placed
Temperatures start to fall into the 30s from west to east. Some light and slushy accumulations are also possible in some spots, as the entire system exits around midnight tonight. As we begin to dry out, winds will remain strong tonight and tomorrow with the sunshine set to return and stick around for the remainder of the week. See graphics. Wx timer 40 a small passenger jet traveling from dayton to akron crashed into an apartment complex on tuesdya. While no one on the ground was hurt, authorities confirmed at least two people on board the plane have died and there could be more. Nbcs Dan Scheneman reports. Believe anyone on the plane survived. The faa and ntsb are investigating. Dan scheneman nbc news. Thorities say a masas Fatality Team will beben working this morning to sift through the wreckage. A sioux city man faces sexual abuse charges involving a 13yearold girl at a local hospital. Investigators say on saturday night 20 yearold Alex Anderson met up with the victim at the icu w
Two people were killed in a rrible crash invivling a aotlen car in sioux city. First responders rushed to 25th and morgan on sioux citys north side around one yesterday afternoon. Police have not released their names, b b they are identified as a 34yeaold man and a 28yearold woman both from sioux city. The car was speeding down 25th street when it smashed into an suv that was backing out of a driveway near morgan street. The car then hit a tree and another r vehicle. E did have witnessesesho saw the vehicle travel up o or the hi, went as far to say they thought it actually caught air, was airborn coming over the hill, it was traveling that fast. Siououcity fire rescue andndioux city police used the jaws of life to remove at least one of the accident victims from the vehicle that was reported stolen five days ago. Paramedics rushed them to Mercy Medical center, but they didnt survive. No one else was seriously injured. A woman in the suv who was pregnant told said she was going to the h
Saturday night in nebraska. You could find most of dakota countys Emergency Personnel in one spot. Mingling over food, drinks and the huskers game. Weve been doing this for over 25 years, said rick bosquet. The South Sioux City knights of columbus bringing Law Enforcement and ems staff together. All agencies in the county were invited. Even Mercy Aircare flew in. Guided by pat moore, a 36 year vet with dakota city fire and rescue. I thought id try it for a couple years, said pat moore, dakota city fire rescue. I havent quite made up my mind but i figure after this long might as well stay there. Thats just his sense of humor. And hats how the mood in the building was, light. Well depending how the huskers were doing. Its getting together with everybody and talking and enjoying it, said pat moore. Moore says its a good time for veterans and the new guys to bond and share stories. Regradless if they work together. Were all one fire department, we just live in different towns, said pat moo
There was no one inside when the fire broke out. We spoke with the Fire Rescue Team on the scene. Now were just going through and we still have some fire thats in some of the voids in the walls etc. Were just opening up some walls and making sure the fires completely out, said assistant chief, captain dave ahlers. The fire caused Severe Damage to e house and it is nono redtagged by sioux city inspection services. We had a treat of an evening from mothernature as temperatures gradually fell into the 50s before bottoming out in the 30s tomorrow morning. After that, well bounce back even more into the 70s sunday afternoon with lots of sunshine. See graphics. Your 7day forecast is coming up in 10 minutes carly fiorora, took the stage a Stoney Creek Conference Center this morning in sioux city. The former Hewlett Packard ceo touted her relationships with foreign leaders and said theres a need to reset how the world sees america. She says if she were to win the president ial bid, her first d