Local Company Turns Waste to Diesel

The press release seems to speak for itself.  Received via email:

July 21, 2006 – - GreenPower Incorporated, a Washington based corporation, will host a public demonstration on July26th at 10 AM to demonstrate their breakthrough technology of the conversion of ordinary landfill waste to high quality diesel fuel. The public is invited to attend.

...Such a plant is proposed for the Tacoma area, the first such plant for the United States. 500 tons of typical waste is estimated to yield approximately 85,000 gallons of fuel on average, at an estimated production cost of well under a dollar per gallon. The proposed plant will require no additional power, as it will use less than 10% of its own fuel production to run generators that will in turn run the plant. The generator exhaust gasses will in turn be catalyzed and fed back into the process, making the plant nearly 100% pollution-free and completely self-sustaining. It can be located in an area accessed by a variety of transportation sources, thus making the Tacoma area an ideal location.

Sounds intriguing to me.  If they need more space, I hear there’s an historic steam plant building available…

Link to MMD News

Link to GreenPower, Inc.

Update: Interesting story in Wednesday’s News Tribune