Modern science has given us incredible breakthroughs in medicine, biology, agriculture, transportation, electronics, and communications, but along with the benefits come problems as well. Virtually ...

Plasma gasification converts carbon-containing materials - such as coal, petroleum coke and municipal solid waste or biomass - into a synthesis gas (syngas) composed primarily of carbon monoxide and ...

Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Last week, Houston’s Waste Management, a ...

From the highway, one of the biggest landfills in the US doesn't look at all like a dump. It's more like a misplaced mesa. Only when you drive closer to the center of operations at the 700-acre ...

Waste Management Inc. is teaming with a startup, InEnTec, to commercialize a technology that turns waste into energy. The new joint venture, S4 Energy Solutions, which was unveiled late last month, ...

My town council is considering a proposal to build a plasma incinerator. The company behind the project says the facility will convert solid waste into energy, without producing any harmful emissions.

GIBSON CITY – An agreement is in the works between the Ford County Board and Eco Manufacturing LLC, a Massachusetts-based company that has proposed building the nation's first plasma-gasification ...