Tri-Cities Tech Business Update
Technology to convert trash into energy
Technology that originated at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and its partner, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be used to turn waste into energy. A joint venture called S4 Energy solutions is a partnership between Waste Management and InEnTec to use plasma gasification technology to build distributed energy systems using separated industrial waste as a "feedstock" because it will be cleaner than incinerators. The gasification technology was originally developed in the 1990s at PNNL with MIT. The company has numerous applications for the technology planned, including designing systems that can turn medical waste into electricity at hospitals.
