Environmental and Energy Issues and The Plasma Solution

«The Environmental Solution:
STARTECH'S
Plasma Converter System™

US Department Of Energy Report:

"In STARTECH’S Plasma Converter System (PCS), organic wastes and other feedstocks are dissociated andreformed to create a synthesis gas of predominantly hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The synthesis gas produced in the dissociation process of these materials, particularly the hydrogen component, has an expanding commercial demand. READ MORE » OTHER REPORTS » OTHER LINKS »

Overview:

This website is a detailed description of an amazing new Green Technology, The Plasma Converter, which will transform virtually all waste products into an endless renewable energy resource!! A limitless resource who's ONLY BY-PRODUCTS will be: clean electric power, pure water, and other clean gasses & solids, all these products having considerable market value. This conversion process will save fortunes for municipalities and industries, both large and small. The current worldwide practice of depositing waste in landfills or toxic dumps will be eliminated and instead become a profitable way to: clean up the environment, generate clean electricity, desalinate water and also create other valuable commodity by-products.

This "Carbon Anti-Footprint" will combine "Elemental Recycling", CO2 and Methane reduction, Green power generation, and pure clean drinking water. Imagine... re-defining waste, and transforming it into pure, clean energy and profit!! These profits will be significant, enough to pay for these Conversion Systems in 5 to 10 years. And after that break-even point, "Municipal Waste Management Districts" will be renamed: "Municipal Energy and Profit Generation Districts"!! (See: COST SAVINGS )

News & Developments:

8/17/08 – Vol.13 No.22 Green Energy News
ADD PLASMA CONVERTED WASTE TO THE RENEWABLES LIST.
"It’s a scary world out there. Increasingly, nations are becoming more dependent on resources from other nations. . . the US could swiftly move away from imported energy, as well as cut greenhouse gas emissions. If the country showed its American Ingenuity once again, the rest of the world would follow towards their own energy independence. . . . The US also has another ever-growing, yet mostly ignored energy resource: The nation . . . has mountains of trash that rise higher by the day. . . There is another way to convert trash and other waste products (including toxic stuff) to energy, It’s a bit of ingenuity with a StarTrek-like name, a Plasma Converter. . . The Plasma Converter uses extraordinarily high temperature heat to dissociate molecules of any kind. The technology is basically a plasma torch, like that used to cut metals, but which contains its heat within a chamber." SEE ARTICLE»

SEEN ON TV!! STARTECH AIRED ON THE SCIENCE CHANNEL APRIL 7, 2009:

STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL CORP was selected by DISCOVERY'S SCIENCE CHANNEL to be in the EARTH DAY episode of the new program: "CITY 2.0", an important new environmental series highlighting current and future challenges and solutions, hosted by Majora Carter.

See Startech's Science Channel Sequence » MEDIA.

HYDDROGEN VEHICHLES TO BECOME THE U.S. FLEET OF THE FUTURE

Quote From U.S. Department of Energy’s Patrick Davis:

Startech’s “Starcell” system seems to be ahead of the pack in its ability to economically convert the substance (PCG) into eco-friendly and competitively priced fuels. “A lot of other gasification technologies require multiple steps. This is a one-step process,” says Patrick Davis of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Hydrogen Production And Delivery, which has awarded Longo’s company (STARTECH) almost $1 million in research grants. “You put the waste in the reactor, and you get out the Syngas. That’s it.”

The Department of Energy’s Patrick Davis says that when the long-awaited hydrogen-powered vehicles finally arrive, the demand for hydrogen will soar. But he also notes that to have an effect on global warming, it’s critical that hydrogen come from clean sources.

Welcome!!

Green Technology Consultant Stephen Valentino and associates are eager to share this unparalleled solution to the multiple environmental challenges which America and the World are facing. Pioneers in the new GREEN TECHNOLOGIES at STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. have developed a PLASMA ENERGY BEAM (30,000°F) which is 3 times hotter than the surface of the sun (10,000°F). It will convert nearly anything, toxic or not, into clean, valuable substances while also generating large scale surplus energy and clean water. This system brings much needed relief to the widespread ecological crises of today:

• The search for new foreign independent sources of Clean, Carbon-Free Power
• World-wide increasing demands for water and shrinking supplies
• The expanding generation of toxic and non-toxic waste products
• Landfills are overburdened, yet cost-effective recycling options are still limited
• Greenhouse gasses & other solid, liquid & gaseous pollutants threaten global weather and economies

Solving these issues will lead directly to cost reductions for governmental and municipal operations, and private sector commerce, manufacturing and transportation. This will ultimately lower the cost of living, improve quality of life, and most importantly: address global climate change. Landfills emit more of the greenhouse gas methane than any other human-related source. And every year 130 million tons of America's trash ends up in landfills.

The engineers and inventors at STARTECH have for over a decade been producing and refining this revolutionary Plasma Technology, and now are ready to implement this breakthrough environmental process, a process which reaches three times the temperature of the sun and all the competing technologies.

Among the locations where STARTECH Converters are successfully operating: Connecticut, Maryland and Japan. Many countries are interested in the Plasma Converter, including: Panama, China, The United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Romania and Venezuela. The first Converter was sold to the U.S. Army to dispose of chemical weapons at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The second Converter is working in Japan, disposing of PCB's. Several others are under construction in Europe. There is a LIVE demonstration unit in Connecticut. For more information, contact us!

The U.S. Department Of Energy (D.O.E.) is one of many sources with multiple independent reviews and articles of the Startech Plasma Converter System. D.O.E. STARTECH LINKS» See more on the LINKS page.

Mission Statement:

Plasma Converter System in Action

Winner of the Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Award:
"The Best and the Brightest" 2004

Our challenge is to change the way the world re-uses and employs most discarded materials. What now is called waste actually will become a limitless, renewable resource. The array of products and services emanating from STARTECH'S core Plasma Converter™ technology, will bring about the large-scale generation of valuable fossil fuel alternatives, pure water and clean, useful solids.

We have created a paradigm shift in environmental dynamics by eliminating toxic and non-toxic waste and greenhouse gasses on the one hand, and simultaneously generating green power and pure water. The accessibility to this will be implemented through the use of STARTECH'S enhanced business model which provides for joint development projects, engineering services, and direct equipment sales with after-sales support and service.

The application of this technology for industries dealing with pollution and hazardous waste products, or municipalities struggling with landfill, water shortages and energy issues will truly be transformational.

A Look Inside:

With a look inside the Plasma Converter, we would see a blinding 30,000+°F Plasma Arc. Almost instantly it converts the various solid or liquid waste pouring into the "Container Vessel" into just 3 products:

• The molten, orange "Melt" of silicates and metals
• The clean "Plasma Converted" Gasses, "PCG'S"
• Clean Surplus Energy

vessel The PCG's are 100% captured and are rich in Hydrogen and other useful, clean-burning fuels. The Melt flows through an outlet and goes through the cooling, steam turbine array. It then becomes a safe, highly compacted and inert obsidian-like substance, rich in minerals and metals. This revolutionary system will basically convert almost any solid, liquid or even gaseous waste, toxic or non-toxic, into clean, valuable commodity products.

This system can convert hundreds of tons per day of waste into vast amounts of: Surplus electricity, Pure water (from salt water), Useful, clean minerals and metals, Hydrogen and other gasses, with Zero Pollution & Zero Greenhouse gasses!!

The solids are highly useful in a wide variety of applications, including: paving, construction, abrasives, and metal fabrication. The PCG'S are further filtered to separate the Hydrogen from the Synth-Gas, and all can be sold or used to generate clean power.

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System Flow Charts:

Diagram

Flow Chart

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Regarding Hazardous Waste:

Hazardous Material storage will become a thing of the past.

The STARTECH system can achieve the “total and irreversible destruction” of hazardous and toxic compounds and wastes. This would include:

• Lethal viruses, bacteria and prions
• Medical waste & Outdated Pharmaceuticals
• PCBs & Chemical Agents
• Hazardous Incinerator Ash
• Biological Wastes & Sludges
• Paints and Solvents & Electronic Industry Waste,
• Contaminated Soils & Asbestos.

STARTECH'S Plasma Converter System offers:

• Complete and Irreversible destruction of materials
• Approved treatment system for regulated medical waste
• Certified on destruction of pathogenic organisms and
• Certified on destruction of containment bio aerosols
• Can provide "Death Certificate" for wastes, which will
eliminate contingent liability
• Potential to offset utility costs
• Far safer than current environmental standards
• Compacts most materials up to 300X

Cost Savings Projections:

Significant valuable resources are created from the use of the STARTECH Plasma Converter. For example, a 1000 tons-per-day of waste is processed at a typical large municipality. That operation's daily output could be hundreds of thousands Kilowatt hours, millions of gallons drinking water and millions of cubic feet of Hydrogen gas.

In that typical 1000 tons-per-day operation, a $200 million Plasma Converter could pay for itself in well under 10 years. Here's how: Landfill usage "Tipping Fees" run from an average $35 to over $100 Per Ton in high population areas. These costs, along with hauling fees, could be reduced by up to $75 Per-Ton / Per-Day by Plasma-Converting the waste and selling the electric, water, gas, and solid by-products, instead of paying the costs of a landfill.

This $75,000-Per-Day savings, comes to $27 Million Per Year, and $270 Million in 10 years. The operating costs and revenues from commodity sales will certainly rise over the years, and both trends will effectively shorten this payoff time. There's also the considerable value of clearing out landfills, restoring them to a pristine state, and selling them to commercial or residential interests. After the Plasma Converter is paid for, these cost savings then become a perpetual surplus of $27+ million per year. (In today's dollars).

Significant unalterable events are driving demand for solutions like The Plasma Converter. They are:

• Populations are rising in most nations
• Waste output is generally increasing along with the costs of disposal and storage and heightened restrictions
• Traditional solutions involving landfills and incineration are becoming environmentally unacceptable
• A critical need for renewable resources: especially power and water, for sustaining local economies
• The urgent world-wide need to provide alternatives to fossil fuels to stop and eventually reverse global climate change

Join the Green Revolution and find out how Plasma Conversion can pave the way to a cleaner, greener and more cost effective tomorrow!! Contact us.

Some of the Above Data From:
March 2007 POPULAR SCIENCE » by Michael Behar, SCIENCE & TECH WRITER
May 2004 FORTUNE MAGAZINE » by Stuart Brown, TECHNOLOGY WRITER
LINKS to other relevant ARTICLES & PRESS RELEASES »

Attention: California Municipalities:

The STARTECH Plasma Converter™ can immediately meet (and exceed) 100% of AB 939 and upcoming SB 1020 regulations for landfill diversion. Also the recent loss of some recycling product buyers can be more than offset by recycling those products through the Converter, and marketing the commodity by-products from the Conversion process. New state regulations in other states would also make the STARTECH Plasma Converter™ the ideal solution for those municipalities.