Where will a great many American jobs and businesses be created in the next ten years? The Green industry sector. Alternative energy companies large and small will hire business development experts, hire construction workers, hire professional engineers, build commercial facilities, then hire managers and wage workers, accountants, even marketing consultants.
After a facility is operational it will stimulate further job creation in the identification, gathering, transport and processing of feedstocks delivered to the facility, as well as sales and distribution of marketable energy delivered in the form of ethanol, methanol, hydrogen, or electricity.
America’s trash stream is essentially a raw material that can be processed into energy products that have substantial market value, especially when that value is created at a local level. For example, an average town of 100,000 US residents probably generates adequate municipal waste and woody biomass to make a gasification project feasible. Even the minimal byproducts of gasification (slag, vitrified glass, etc.) have value in the abrasives, construction and road building industry.
Today’s household trash contains more than old chicken bones and cardboard. There’s a rich assortment of petroleum-derived trash to go along with organic matter that enters the waste stream where you live. Tires, old shoes, milk jugs, shampoo bottles, Soda bottles, etc.
The list of what we throw away is almost endless. But the point I’m trying to make here isn’t. Most petroleum derived material that goes into the waste stream isn’t recycled. And to make it worse, this petroleum derived stuff doesn’t decompose. It just sits there for thousands of years. Some of what we throw away finds its way to the oceans where it can be concentrated by ocean currents into garbage patches that are twice the size of Texas. That’s a big problem.
Yet, in the face of all these vexing environmental problems, there’s an opportunity staring America in the face. So big that we might need to educate ourselves to fully understand and support it locally.
With your help, we want to improve the waste management status quo, which currently is either landfilling or incinerating depending on where you live. We want to introduce a new waste handling paradigm: using proven gasification technology to build sustainable clean energy businesses where you live.
America’s waste management practices are due for an update. No longer is it in America’s best interests to ignore the solid waste it creates by hauling it somewhere else, then burying or burning it. The compelling benefits of using plasma gasification of solid waste and woody biomass to produce clean, green, sustainable energy streams are clear.
Do you think a waste to energy facility could be feasible in your town? We invite you to build a business case for how one of these high-tech facilities could work where you live. Register and join a project or start a project! Let us know everything you can about the types and amounts of biomass and total MSW in the area.
