Crumplin’ jacked trash (in a flash, flash, flash).
In a flash…your trash could become a sought-after commodity for fuel production.
The disastrous effects which the world’s food economies experienced this year as a result of the frenzied rush to produce corn based ethanol trampled much of the excitement surrounding it’s use as an alternative fuel.
In spite of the recent ethanol backlash…new, cost effective, non-corn ethanol technologies are surfacing quickly. Broadly labeled cellulosic ethanol…several innovative conversion processes offer hope that low cost non-corn ethanol could replace 20-30 million gallons of petro-fuels within a few short years.
Perhaps the most intriguing new system of the bunch is proposed by Fulcrum BioEnergy…a California startup which “would turn garbage from homes and businesses into transportation fuel.”
Garbage haulers would dump loads of trash at the Fulcrum BioEnergy plant east of Reno, Nevada…where a catalytic process would turn the garbage into ethanol.
And that’d be a gas, gas, gas.