Another technology it is looking at: a small gasifier that will heat woody waste to create natural gas.

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One of the engineers, Xu Yue, joined the gasifier project in 1997.

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With a coal gasifier, it is far easier to extract greenhouse emissions, so that they can be stored or reused, instead of floating into the atmosphere.

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When Albert Lin, an American energy entrepreneur on the board of Future Fuels, a Texas-based power-plant developer, set out to find a gasifier for a pioneering new plant that is designed to spew less greenhouse gas, he figured that he would buy one from G.

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