Transphorm aims to solve the multi-billion dollar problem of power waste whenever electricity from the grid is converted into usable electric power.
As the CEOs standing behind me will tell you, nuclear power generates waste, and we need to accelerate our efforts to find ways of storing this waste safely and disposing of it.
For two weeks 20 Bechtelians tried to estimate the cost of repairing roads, airports, hospitals, power plants and waste treatment systems.
The Isle of Wight, off the south coast in the Solent, aspires to become self-sufficient in energy over the next few decades through a combination of tidal power, a waste-to-electricity plant and efficiency savings.
That includes bridges and roads, drinking water and wastewater pipelines, levees, power lines, solid waste systems, and a host of other things.
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That figure includes mining uranium, designing power plants and reprocessing waste fuel.
These materials include low-grade waste from power stations and small devices containing radioactive materials such as cesium-137, used in some cancer treatments, cobalt-60, used in food irradiation, or americum, incorporated in sensors for oil exploration.
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When finished, the power station will convert municipal waste from Greater Manchester and Cheshire into energy.
The proposed incinerator would burn 250, 000 tonnes of waste, provide power for the local community and create 200 jobs.
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Humanure toilets use the methane released by human waste to create power that is converted into saleable products, such as electricity.
Carl Iwan Clowes, of People Against Wylfa B (Pawb), said the waste from nuclear power stations created problems for future generations.
About 10 percent of the power is lost with each conversion step, and that can add up to terawatt-hours of power that just goes to waste.
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Even America is thinking again: in 20-odd states that require utilities to generate a proportion of their power from renewable sources, waste-to-energy plants count towards the goal.
Right now we are chained to dirty and outdated energy sources that contribute to global warming, including oil and coal and to nuclear power, which produces dangerous waste.
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In many countries power from landfill gas or waste-to-energy plants (like the one at Spittelau, outside Vienna, illustrated above) attracts subsidies of one kind or another because it saves emissions.
The result is a considerable waste of potential power.
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Members included Ford Motor, Amtrak, DuPont, Dow Corning, American Electric Power, International Paper and Waste Management, along with the states of Illinois and New Mexico, seven cities and a number of universities.
Some communities are ecologically friendly: they use solar power and green methods of waste removal, undertaking the daunting challenge of hauling non-biodegradable items off the mountain via pack animals as opposed to burning or burying trash.
That is, here is a glaring waste of electric power, fully lighting a business through all its nighttime inactivity, every single night, for no purpose at all except to advertise its presence to almost empty midnight streets.
His toilet uses solar panels to power an electrochemical system that turns waste into useful things.
But the government says waste from any new power stations would be borne by the industry itself.
Its services include engineering, decontamination, radioactive waste processing, and removal, transportation, and disposal of waste for closed nuclear power plants and former weapons sites.
Campaigners had fought moves to use the lake for dumping waste ash from Didcot power station until owners Npower found an alternative use for the ash in 2008.
In Iceland, Carbon Recycling International opened a plant at the end of 2011 drawing waste CO2 from a power station, with capacity to produce five million litres of methanol per year.
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Broad Group, a Chinese maker of air conditioners, taps the waste heat from buildings to power its machines.
An energy firm has begun work on a new store for radioactive waste at Sizewell B nuclear power station.
The centre, which will treat 100, 000 tones of waste each year and generate power, was opposed by local people and the borough council.
Glendullan is to have a new bio-power plant for anaerobic digestion of distillery waste, and there is to be a new still-house at Mortlach distillery in Dufftown.
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