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Tacoma, WA - Skyrocketing gas prices are having a profound effect on everyone. Gas prices not only make it difficult for consumers, but businesses are affected as well. The demand for oil is increasing while the supply is shrinking rapidly. This combination is a guarantee that gas prices will continue to escalate.

Green Power Inc, a Washington based corporation specializing in the conversion of ordinary organic landfill waste to high grade diesel fuel has a very good solution to high gas prices. The company's waste-to-fuel technology is estimated to produce approximately 85,000 gallons of fuel from 500 tons of typical landfill waste.

Once the technology is implemented nationwide, this country's need for foreign oil will be reduced or eliminated and gas prices will stabilize. Green Power, which owns global rights to the various patents to this waste-to-fuel technology, estimates production cost to be well under a dollar per gallon.

About the Technology:

The technology, called Catalytic Depolymerization, was invented by Dr. Christian Koch, of Germany. It took nearly forty years to develop. The process uses a special catalyst which, when heated to 350 degrees Celsius, changes from an inert compound to an aggressive decomposition agent, breaking down long, complex carbon molecules into short ones, the basis of light oil and diesel fuel.

The process works on all carbon based material, including but not limited to plant material, biomass, animal products, plastics, rubber, waste oils, etc. It cannot breakdown rock, glass, porcelain or metals. These items are pre-sorted using conventional existing technologies.

This fuel, dubbed "NanoDiesel", is a very high grade, much higher than typical #2 diesel purchased at the pump. It is said to be easily usable as jet fuel but still requires certification for that application.

The standard operating temperature of this process is 390 Celsius, a temperature below that which, in typical refinement processes, creates green house and other toxic gasses. This process creates no such gasses or toxins.

Additionally, the means of heating the material to the reaction temperature is not by flame, but by friction, created by pumping the material through a specially designed and patented turbine. Therefore, there is virtually no emissions in the process. Waste material that is not converted to diesel can be used for fertilizer.

Plant Construction:

Construction of the first plant in the United States is proposed for the Tacoma area. Green Power hopes to have 1500 plants up and running in the US within 5 to 7 years. In addition to having a positive impact on the environment and gas prices, landfills in the U.S. will become extinct, as they are mined for the resources within.

SOURCE: Green Power Inc.