Gasification and the Garbage Disappears!
No More to Landfill
The future is NO LANDFILLS.
We, the People of planet Earth, in Order to return to a more live-able climate, use planet Earth’s methods to conserve the planet’s resources, promote the general Welfare of all creatures living on planet Earth, do say and work toward a future of Clean Air and Healthy Climate by recreating landfills into “Renewable Energy Stations”.
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What if these dots, that might be Landfills, became “Renewable Energy Stations”
The dots below suggest all the Landfills in the world.
What if they all became “Renewable Energy Stations” with established renewable energy equipment of various types. And where non-recyclable types of Waste disappear with no heavy GHG gases emitted and result in a very versatile Synthetic Gas – known as Syngas.
There is now a big effort to cut methane gas from seeping into our skies from Landfills.
The clamor for Garbage to Disappear,
the search for Clean Fuels and
No GHG Emissions in the process
– can be solved in one operation – Gasification
Soiled Waste turned into Syn-Gas can be used in many ways! – “Gasification” the technology for our future
The US Department of Energy defines Gasification as
“A process technology that is designed and operated for the purpose of producing synthesis gas (a commodity which can be used to produce fuels, chemicals or power) through the chemical conversion of carbonaceous materials.”
In the gasification process, the MSW is not a fuel, but a feedstock for a high temperature chemical conversion process. The MSW reacts with little or no oxygen, breaking it down into simple molecules and converting them into syngas.
Why is Gasification better than Incineration?
What makes gasification and incineration different?
*Incineration is hot destruction of Waste by burning in a furnace that produces the kind of smoke that includes a long list of pollutants and GHG gases that must be filtered before release into the atmosphere caused by the combustion of the feedstock. The only form of energy produced is heat – steam to power electricity generators.
*Gasification is a high temperature chemical conversion process (no combustion), taking carbon based feed stocks such as municipal solid waste [MSW] and converting them into synthetic gas (called Syngas). The syngas produced is a very flexible fuel source which has many uses including hydrogen and the generation of electricity. As the MSW is not burned there are almost no emissions, BUT the MSW disappears.
Why is Gasification better than a Landfill?
Gasification is significantly faster at making Gas than a Landfill and makes the MSW disappear – 1,2,3 and the MSW is gone and there is Clean Syngas.
So you are going to tell me that incineration is fast too.
Gasification is significantly cleaner and more versatile than burning
The main form of energy produced from incineration is heat, by burning.
The main form of energy produced from Gasification is syngas, no burning, no pollutants emitted and results in a list of much more versatile fuels/energy.
Again the basics:
from Sierra Energy:
Featured in The New York Times, FastOx® gasification is shaking up the waste industry by powering homes and fueling cars with trash.
How it works at scale:
The company’s first commercial-scale demonstration facility is located at US Army Garrison Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County, California.
FastOx System Installed at U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hunter Liggett in California.
This facility provides Sierra Energy with the unique capability to demonstrate all core aspects of a high-temperature gasification system in a fully integrated facility from waste preparation through production of particulate and tar-free syngas.
This U.S. Army Base wanted to significantly lower the risk, cost, and carbon footprint related to the transporting and disposal of trash produced at the training facility. The FastOx gasification system on site has been designed to convert post-recycled, municipal solid waste generated on the garrison into electricity and fuels to help the military achieve its energy security and zero-waste goals.
Waste Gasification: How Old Technology Can Solve a Modern Problem
Despite incineration’s growing popularity in many parts of the world, it is also infamous among environmentalists for releasing harmful pollutants into the atmosphere and sucks in MSW so fast that the process of reuse, recycling is almost forgotten.
LOOK HOW CLIMATE FRIENDLY THE DIFFERENCE IS!
| Issue | Gasification | Incineration |
| Air | Little to No Air | Air is part of the incinerator’s combustion requirements |
| Ash | No Ash | Depending on the technology: Ash pollutes our soil, groundwater, lakes, rivers and streams. The Ash resulting from incineration must be disposed of, mostly likely in a landfill. |
| Byproduct | inert stone and molten metals, no waste, sold as construction aggregate | Ash or ?construction aggregate |
| Combustion | No combustion. Oxygen and steam break down the feedstock at the molecular level | There must be combustion to make fire for heat and steam that is used for internal combustion generators to make electricity |
| Emissions | Very little Emissions; some water and oxygen Gasification produces Syngas with limited or no oxygen. | toxic emissions, Dioxins and furans and CO, CO2, N2O, particulate matter from combustion. Emissions from the incinerator must be filtered before they leave the incinerator. |
| Energy Produced Result | chemical conversion to SynGas, which has many uses | only Heat to electricity |
| Electricity produced from 1 ton of MSW | 1 ton of MSW to up to 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity | 1 ton of MSW to about 550 kilowatt-hours of electricity |
| Feedstock | Flexible, Municipal Solid Waste or Mixed Wastes | Municipal Solid Waste of any kind |
| Feedstock Preparation | The Feedstock for the Gasifier must be Dry to >30% moisture | No preparation needed of the feedstock for the fire |
| Percentage of Reduction of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)? | 90% | 90% – 96% |
| Fuel used to heat in the process? | fuel produced by the process is partly used for the heat in the process | fossil and other kinds of fuel |
| Smoke? | No Smoke | Smoke that pollutes the air we breathe / toxic emissions, Dioxins and furans and CO, CO2, N2O, particulate matter from combustion. |
| Source for generating electricity | Fuel | Heat |
| Temperature range | Heat not Fire 2,200°C/4,000°F | Fire of 400 degrees Fahrenheit up to 9000 degrees Fahrenheit (200 to 4980 degrees Celsius) |
Gasification Companies
The wish for Garbage (MSW) to Disappear without burning…is Syngas from Gasification.
Davis, CA, USA
Sierra Energy
Turning Waste into Value
FastOx® Gasification is the Future
Municipal solid waste, biomass, hazardous waste, tires, medical waste and more can all be converted into renewable energy and fuels safely and responsibly.
Recent Update about what is happening
Aug 17, 2025 – Sierra Energy’s FastOx gasification technology will produce green hydrogen for Sierra Northern Railway’s hydrogen powered locomotive (successfully built and tested in March 2025). This video is an update about what Sierra Energy’s FastOx gasification technology has been up to and how they help any landfill turn waste into renewable energy of many kinds.
Ottawa, Canada
Plasco Conversion Technologies Inc. changes name to OMNI Conversion Technologies Inc.
Rather than send more garbage and non-recyclable waste to landfill, what if we could harness the energy in that waste for another purpose? We offer a way to do that with our omnivorous waste conversion system that transforms trash into valuable clean fuels.
The Omni200 is a leading waste-to-clean fuels conversion system. This patented technology takes in feedstock, passes it through a thermo-chemical process and refines it into synthetic gases. After partical oxidation, polishing with plasma breaks the bonds of molecules to generate a tar-free syngas. The heat from this process returns to the gasification stage which eliminates the need for emissions (stack) and residuals.
India
Chanderpur Works Pvt. Ltd. MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE(MSW) GASIFIER
Gasifier
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is the biggest problem of the present world, where MSW is dumped in landfills making huge mountains of waste, creating havoc with the environment due to foul smell, spoils the ground water in rains.
The other solution is incineration, which again spoils the environment, so Gasification has come up as a best possible solution for treatment of MSW.
Montreal, QC, Canada
Enerkem – From Waste to a Sustainable Future
Enerkem’s technology provides a sustainable waste management solution which is complementary to recycling and composting. Our gasification technology uses waste materials normally destined to landfill, such as textiles, non-recyclable plastics, wood residues, or soiled food containers.
Plagazi uses a Swedish patented technology which converts non-recyclable waste into large-scale production of green hydrogen via plasma gasification. The production process is entirely enclosed, has a negative carbon footprint, and does not produce any hazardous or environmentally harmful by-products.
Göteborg, Sweden
Plagazi
The Patented Plagazi Process – Converting non-recyclable waste into green hydrogen
Plagazi was born in 2007 from a simple but powerful idea: waste doesn’t have to be a problem, it can be a valuable resource for a cleaner future. We’ve dedicated ourselves to turning non-recyclable and hazardous waste into CO2-negative hydrogen, helping communities and industries build energy independence and close the loop on circularity. The PLAGAZI® process uses advanced plasma gasification technology developed by our strategic partner Inentec. Plagazi integrates this technology into a full-scale waste-to-hydrogen process.
East Sussex, UK
CTEC Energy
CTEC Energy, has been working alongside a talented group of experts to bring clean energy production and waste management systems to the world. At CTEC Energy, we design, engineer and manufacture Energy Recovery Equipment and utilise 100% medical and other non-recyclable wastes to generate clean, renewable energy. For example:
Bundall, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
H24U has officially rebranded to Syn X Energy
- Inherently Clean and Reliable
- Processes almost all waste feedstocks
- Scalable from 100tpd to multiple 3,000tpd large industrial plants
- Very low in emissions and no ash residue; negligible dusts and salts
- Economically integrated into existing structures
What is Waste-to-X?
Waste-to-X (WtX) refers to a set of technologies and solutions that treat waste as a resource rather than a problem. The “X” in Waste-to-X can represent a variety of outputs, such as energy, fuels, or other valuable products.
Bellaire, Texas, USA
Reformed Energy
Modular. Scalable. Energy Efficient – The L50 gasifier is designed to be a versatile solution for a wide range of waste disposal applications.
Advanced Control System – The L50 offers the flexibility needed to effectively handle inconsistent waste feedstocks.
Technological (R)evolution – Although plasma-assisted gasification is still a relatively new and disruptive innovation, our system is the culmination of nearly 2 decades of technological evolution.
Reformed Energy is at the forefront of proprietary gasification technology. We’re building our pilot site to process 150 tons per day of municipal solid waste, plastics, tires, wood waste, and liquid sludges. It will serve as a demonstration and training center.
EU&UK
It’s pronounced ‘E-Q-TEC’
Less wasteful than landfill, cleaner than incineration
Waste is a limitless resource.
EQTEC is a leading licensor and innovator of syngas technology for clean conversion of the world’s waste into sustainable energy and biofuels.
Gasification:
Two types for different applications
Air-blown gasification supports electrical power and thermal energy applications, where the ratios of hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide in the syngas is less critical for the offtake application.
Steam-oxygen gasification supports chemical applications such as hydrogen, renewable natural gas (RNG) and other advanced biofuel applications.
Israel
ZoharTech
Smart Waste Systems
ZoharX consumes the waste by thermal gasification technology.
Parker, CO, USA
TCG Global technology
Nov 19, 2015 – TCG designs, builds, sells, owns, and operates gasification plants capable of converting any carbon-containing feedstock into synthesis gas.
OUR CLEAN & BENEFICIAL SYNGAS
We take the materials that you have available – such as plastics, used tires, biomass, etc. – and turn that material into something you can sell. This includes clean hydrogen gas, ammonia, heat, electricity, gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
Schiphol, The Netherlands
GIDARA Energy
Gasification with proven industrial-scale feedstock flexibility.
Our proven gasification technology offers a cost-competitive solution. GIDARA Energy‘s Advanced Methanol Amsterdam (AMA) project uses HTW® gasification technology. The resulting raw Syngas can be used to produce land Transportation, Maritime and Aviation fuels.
Lancaster, CA, USA
https://www.sgh2energy.com/
Apr 23, 2020 https://www.sgh2energy.com/
WHY PLASMA
Plasma is one of the four common states of matter – solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Plasma is an electrically charged gas. A plasma torch produces a flow that reaches from 3500º to 4000º C. When that flow comes into contact with solid carbon materials, it produces Syngas.
Renewable Energy Stations
Small-scale Projects & Gasifiers
If you live in a small region, one of these companies with Gasifiers that handle Argricultural Waste may be your answer, but be careful to find out what “feed stocks” their gasifier can process.
McFarland, CA, USA
San Joaquin Renewables
At San Joaquin Renewables, we believe that everyone deserves to breathe clean air. Learn more about our commitment and our project.
Biomass into Renewable Natural Gas – San Joaquin Renewables LLC (SJR) operates a facility in McFarland, California, that converts agricultural waste biomass into about 80,000 gasoline gallon-equivalents of renewable natural gas (RNG) per day. The RNG will be transported by the SoCalGas pipelines to be used as vehicle fuel throughout California. Feedstock consists of agricultural waste; wood, pistachio shells, and almond shells. Biochar: The plant produces biochar, which is a fertilizer ingredient that improves soil water, nutrient and CO2 retention. The Processing equipment at the plant uses Frontline BioEnergy’s Gasification technologies.
Tickfaw, LA, USA
Waste to Energy Systems
Nov 6, 2025 – The BioHearth microgrid system by Waste to Energy Systems takes a wide range of organic waste and converts it into renewable, reliable heat and electricity.
Our bioHearth® downdraft gasification system is a simple, affordable way to convert carbon-based waste into clean power and heat. Our downdraft gasification system incorporates all the right elements to provide the simple, easy way to convert your waste to energy. The system also produces BioChar, a Valuable carbon-rich byproduct with multiple applications. Every bioHearth® system produces high-quality biochar that is an important soil amendment and water filter.
CARBON NEUTRAL + LOW EMISSIONS + ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Morris, IL, USA
SynTech Bioenergy
This video was taken during a site visit to the BioMax® biomass-to-energy gasification facility at Dixon Ridge Farms (Winters, CA) in October 2018. The first 5 min of the video describe most of the system.
BioMax takes your biomass, agricultural waste and processed municipal solid waste (MSW) and converts it onsite to reliable, clean power and heat, while completely eliminating the need to landfill. We install our generators on your property. Our technologies provide a carbon-negative alternative to burning or disposing of your waste.
The process has an
IBI certified by-product: SynChar™ a high-quality BioChar with valuable agricultural, soil amendment and carbon sequestering qualities.
Renewable Energy Stations
What is a Renewable Energy Station?
OK make the Garbage (MSW) disappear, but don’t burn it
and end up with clean renewable energy of different kinds.
Here is a cleaner way to use your land!
Today, we have landfills. We pull the Landfill Gas (LFG) out of the landfill, filter it and turn it into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG). It is piped into the same pipes that contain the NG that is pulled out of planet Earth.
Now, take that landfill with the gas processing (or producing electricity) and when the landfill closes completely there will still be LFG to be drawn out of it for a number of years.
BUT what to do with the land on top of the landfill once it is closed ??
Step 1: The top of a closed landfill is a perfect place to put other renewable energy equipment, such as
a solar farm !
And what to do after all the LFG gas is emptied out of the Landfill??
Step 2: Here comes the Gasifier…..
This is a picture of Sierra Energy’s FastOx Gasification system
FROM this point on, instead of LFG, the newly installed Gasifier will produce Syngas direct from any non-recyclable Waste that is brought to this Renewable Energy Station, that sits on top of an old, closed and gas empty landfill.
The Waste is used to make clean Syngas without any GHG gases emitted.
The resultant (updated)
“Renewable Energy Station”
is now producing Electricity
from the solar panels
and producing Clean Fuel
from the Gasifier.
The Waste will continue to disappear….on into the future.
This is only the simplest description of what the “Renewable Energy Station” can be.
It can house a number of different renewable energy processes.
Maybe you can start Today……….
If your community has a closed landfill, it is ready for Step 1 :
Put some other renewable energy equipment, such as a solar farm, on top of it !
If your community’s closed landfill is finishing the LFG gas in it, you are ready to consider Step 2 : Time for your community council to research a gasifier to complete your community’s
“Renewable Energy Station”
…..Waste to Syngas into the future and the MSW disappears.
A cleaner way to use your land!
Syngas is only one of a number of ways to produce Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Waste, but “RNG from Waste” is such a growing industry that it had strong expansion even in the USA in 2025 and 2026 has begun with encouraging signals.
We can take Value from our Waste
and Clean up the Climate Today!
Renewable Energy Stations
posts on Cleaner Renewable Gases – Fuel or Electricity
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CNG, LNG, RNG Fuelling Stations – #2 Waste To Energy
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INVESTING in LFG – Capturing the Methane!
Cleaner Energy Investments! Time To Invest In Your Landfill!
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what needs to be cleaned up
Too Much Methane !
Why We Need To Capture Landfill Gas – – -Right Now!
The Greenhouse Gases List …..A Re-Review
The “Relief” Of Phasing Out Fossil Fuel! …Now!
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? Environment
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? People-Civic
Finally In The Mood To Phase Out Fossil Fuel? – Governance
We CAN Deal With The #1 Mistake: Fossil Fuel – Today
cleaning up the mess
Fossil Fuel Is Ancient Waste. But, There’s Plenty Of Waste Now!
Can We, Are We Pulling In The Excess CO₂ ?
Fuel From Air? – Capture CO₂
Carbon Dioxide – Who Else Has Ideas To Pull It DOWN And OUT?
We Need To USE THE CO2! …..For Industry – Big Market!
Urban Mining – Recycling – for clean energy
Urban Mining ! – More Important Than Ever
Critical Minerals & Rare Elements! ….. COLOSSAL WASTE RUSH
Other approaches to waste:
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Harvesting Waste Ideas. Waste Rushes? NOW!
Climate Retrofits On Land Or At Sea
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Industrial Zone – Closed-Loop Networking
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We Need To USE THE CO2! …..For Industry – Big Market!