What takes place in a gasification reactor?
The concept of converting waste to energy to help us heat and power our daily lives is pretty amazing. If we think back 50 years ago, the environmental movement was barely a blip on the radar. Now being environmentally friendly
How can my community become more eco-friendly?
More and more communities are moving toward an eco-friendly lifestyle. Sustainable living communities are popping up all over, where they are specially built to be as green and environmentally friendly as possible. So what do you do when your community
Green Roof Is An Age-Old Concept
GREEN building methods and materials are typically seen as "new-age" building solutions to age-old building problems. But one of the most visibly "green" building systems being used widely today - the "living roof" or "green roof" - has been in use
Why is Gasification better than Incineration?
To begin to answer this question, we first must take a look at what makes gasification and incineration different. Incineration is defined as high temperature destruction of waste (i.e. municipal solid waste) in a furnace to a non-burnable ash form that
How The Ocean Impacts Your Life
In honor of World Ocean Day, the Waste to Energy team wanted to dedicate our daily blog to why the oceans are so important and why we should protect them. Whether you are landlocked or live coastal, the oceans play
Top 10 Greenest Companies in the U.S.
Newsweek recently released it list of the top 10 greenest companies in the US. Let's take a look at the top 5 companies taking the biggest strides toward sustainable business and how they are doing it. 1. Biogen, one of the oldest and
Is Biomass Energy Carbon Neutral?
Is Biomass Energy Carbon Neutral? This is a common question in the big debate of renewable energy vs fossil fuels. Those in favor of fossil fuel usage will tell you that biomass energy is not carbon neutral. When in fact like a pet,
How to Overcome the Variability of Renewable Energy
The most popular forms of Renewable Energy (R.E.) are solar and wind, so what do you do when the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow. These type of factors make up the variability of a renewable energy
Renewable Energy Continues to Gain Momentum as Significant US Power Source
A lot of people want to use the out of date argument that Renewable Energy (RE) Technologies do not hold their weight in the energy industry. Well that argument is, in fact, outdated. The advances made in the past few