When the city of Berkeley kept shutting off power to Jim Mason’s unconventionally-zoned artists’ compound, he took matters into his own hands; he built a gasifier to turn plant waste into a source of ...

People visiting a mobile biomass gasifier and electricity generator look at its mechanics during a demonstration at Paws Up Ranch on Wednesday. The generator, owned by the University of Montana, used ...

It’s green, flexible, and readily available. So why is large-scale thermal gasification slow to take off? Tom Goulding reports. On an industrial site in North East England, work has been underway on a ...