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
And intense Security Operations in american history. Those safeguards are evident getting security equaling or exceeding that of the president. The barricades are everywhere. A lot more cops on the street than normal. Pope franciss agenda including meeting with president obama, a speech to congress, a parade near the white house and celebrating mass at the basilica of the immaculate shrine at catholic university. A welcome banner adorns the school and the stage has been set. The holy father coming to our country is exciting. Pope francis has put the bow on top and made it understandable and made it something that everybody can receive with love. Beyond the fanfare, the popes visit today triggers a massive security operation. Authorities say there is no specific or credible threat but the pope does remain a prime target, not just of terrorists even the italian may have fee i cant. Now you are looking at a live picture from cuba where we understand the pope boarded the plane on his way t
New york city 75 . Roman catholics the popes popularity rises to 90 . Darlene rodriguez is in cuba right now. Were going to check in with darlene at 5 00 a. M. , in about a half an hour. On our website right now everything you need to know about the popes visit and a special look about what makes pope francis different from his predecessors. Head to nbcnewyork. Com pope. He really has united people. He is different. Hes a pope of the people. Right. People are attuned to it. I heard a young woman talking about the type of chair he uses, a wooden one. Very, very humble. It is time for the weather and traffic on the 4s. Beautiful weather for the popes arrival as well, chris . Its looking that way. There may be a few clouds but it should be very pleasant, very nice. For today, overcast, breezy most of the day. Could be a sprinkle or two north and west of the city early on. Look for morning temperatures in the 50s and 6 os. Afternoon temperatures climb back to the low and mid 70s. Best chan
And expectation is everybody has learned that theres no reason why we cant work on the issues at hand. So hopefully thats a lesson that will be internalized and not just by me but also by democrats and republicans not only the leaders but the rankandfile. Thanks very much, everybody. Mr. President , will this happen all over again in a few months . Well for the first time in 17 days the federal government is up and running this morning, a final congressional vote last night, capped an ugly drama on capitol hill where partisan politics drove the nations economy into the very brink. In the end lawmakers avoided defaulting on the federal debt but nevertheless theres plenty of damage to go around. 87 House Republicans joined democrats in supporting legislation to fund the government into early next year while raising the debt ceiling to cover whats already been spent. Not a single democrat opposed it. On the senate side 18 republicans opposed the bill among them ted cruz, mike lee, rand pa
Learned that theres no reason why we cant work on the issues at hand. So hopefully thats a lesson that will be internalized and not just by me but also by democrats and republicans not only the leaders but the rankandfile. Thanks very much, everybody. Mr. President , will this happen all over again in a few months . Well for the first time in 17 days the federal government is up and running this morning, a final congressional vote last night, capped an ugly drama on capitol hill where partisan politics drove the nations economy into the very brink. In the end lawmakers avoided defaulting on the federal debt but nevertheless theres plenty of damage to go around. 87 House Republicans joined democrats in supporting legislation to fund the government into early next year while raising the debt ceiling to cover whats already been spent. Not a single democrat opposed it. On the senate side 18 republicans opposed the bill among them ted cruz, mike lee, rand paul and marco rubio. For those Tea