While decentralized sources of power, such as harnessing solar and wind energy to generate electricity, are well understood opportunities, there are additional fundamental areas where we are moving inexorably towards an infrastructure where being on the grid is an option, not a necessity. A recently announced new waste-to-energy system that turns trash into clean energy from IST [...]

Back in October 2007, in our post “Ze-Gen’s Waste to Energy“ we reported on a Massachusetts-based company, Ze-Gen, who appeared to be “possibly the furthest along in the race to develop technology to turn waste into fuel - eliminating the need for landfills in the bargain.”  That was then.  There are other contenders in this race…

Plasco’s Ottawa Waste-to-Energy [...]