Finally, a Garbage-to-Energy Scheme That Might Actually Work
Technology • June 2011 • Views: 986
Burning garbage to make energy—on its face, anyhow—seems like a win-win proposition, but the chemical arithmetic has never really added up to a winning proposition. Nonetheless, a major energy supplier and a big time trash hauler are both finding value in Montreal-based Enerkem. Today the company announced that oil refiner Valero and sanitation giant Waste Management are pumping a combined $60 million into the company, whose technology turns old utility poles and household garbage into ethanol.