Waste To Energy

Here’s a good article on waste to energy with an accompanying video that was created by my colleague at Renewable Energy World, Jennifer Runyon. Quite appropriately, Jennifer emphasizes that this project, which happens to feature methane digestion as a technology to transform some of the chemical energy in municipal solid waste (MSW) to electricity, effectively “kills two birds with one stone,” generating a bit of power in an area that needs it desperately, while disposing of a huge amount of MSW, which is an enormous problem in Lagos, Nigeria, a city of 20 million people.

Fortunately, there are technologies that more efficiently extract the energy from our waste streams, e.g., gasification, that figure prominently into a couple of our clean energy investment opportunities, for example, this one in Bangkok, Thailand.