Peak Oil: I Would Like You to Meet Smart Gasification of Coal, Biomass, Garbage

Exxon Mobile is investing in gasification technologies for converting coal, biomass, garbage, etc. into energy and fuels.

Australian companies are developing underground in situ gasification technologies for converting coal to gas. Similar technologies are likely to work as well for shale oils and oil sands.

Waste gasification is picking up momentum in the US.

InEnTec's technology, originally developed at MIT and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Richland, WA, uses a multiple high-temperature processes--including subjecting garbage to plasma arcs--to break down organic materials into syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Syngas can either be directly burned in gas turbines to produce electricity, or it can be converted into other fuels, including gasoline and ethanol. Metals and other inorganic materials in garbage can be isolated and recycled. The combination of high temperatures and an oxygen-poor environment that prevents the garbage from catching fire eliminates the production of dioxins and furans, two toxic chemicals produced during incineration.

In Canada, the University of Northern British Columbia is installing a biomass gasification plant for its Prince George campus.

North America and Australia are swimming in energy. The only thing pushing the Anglospheric continents toward peak oil is their governments. Keven Rudd and Brock O'Bomba are both dyed-in-the-wool true believers in the religion of carbon hysteria. They are each willing to destroy their country's economy to save the people from an imaginary catastrophe. They were elected, of course, demonstrating once again the madness of crowds in a democracy.