For a couple of years,  Green Power, Inc (GPI) has had a 100 ton per day model plant in Pasco, Washington that turns municipal solid waste (MSW) and other like feedstock such as biomass into high grade fuel. This technology enables the replacement of limited, fossil-based oil with fuel that comes from garbage, which can be thought of as a form of free, sustainable energy, because as long as there are people on the planet, there will be waste. What’s more, usually communities pay to get rid of it, so it is a cash-generating feedstock that with GPI’s technology produces a cash-generating product, self-powered by the process as well. …
GPI‘s waste-to-fuel process validated by U.S. military (Examiner.com, 19 Feb 2010)
If this lives up to any of its claim, then all I can say is: Wow! US municipalities need to jump on this!
