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A Waste Gasification Plant In a Truck
waderoush writes "There are plenty of waste-to-energy plants around the US, but most of them simply burn the waste, dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Gasification technology, by contrast, converts nearly all of the waste into gases like hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be used to run generators and furnaces. The problem is that most gasification facilities are factory-sized. Now a startup outside Boston has built a combination shredder-dryer-pelletizer-gasifier that fits into 30-by-8-by-8-foot shipping container. The so-called 'Green Energy Machine' can be backed up to a loading dock by truck, processing 3 tons of solid waste per day and putting out enough synthetic gas to run a 120-kilowatt generator or a 240-kilowatt-equivalent furnace. The makers say the machine can eliminate 540 tons of carbon emissions per year, in large part by reducing the amount of waste that goes to methane-generating landfills."
IGasify. Portable usb gasification plant.
Power your IPod with your own excrements! As only pop stars can do right now.
Err, it's pretty obvious that they'd build some kind of safety mechanism. If you're going to point out dangers of various power sources and assume there are no safety measures being taken, here's a bit of airy scary information for you:
* Nuclear fuel, uranium, is radioactive and will cause cancer or direct radiation poisoning.
* Coal is full of mercury, and eating it will cause people to call you a mad hatter.
* Oil is bad because you can drown in it.
* Solar power is bad because the sun can give you sunburn.
* Wind power is really nasty because all those spinning blades can chop you up into teeny tiny pieces.
I hate printers.
I think women are the problem. I would be happy to have an energy efficient house made of concrete that is built like a bunker and partially subterranean. My wife however insists on having a pretty house with lots of windows facing all the wrong directions.
Only decepticon reformers turn it into CO2. Autobot reformers are much more responsible with the carbon.
Start a happiness pandemic