How will the antianthracite crowd react to a plant that spares the atmosphere only three-fifths of its waste gas?
FuelCell Energy touts the ability of its fuel cells to directly process a hydrocarbon, such as natural gas or waste gas from a sewage treatment facility.
If a government-mandated market for pollution offsets ever materializes, the 26-inch pipe hauling away carbon would be able to handle the plant's waste gas and another 5 million tons from other sources in New Jersey.
The facility will turn domestic waste into gas which will then be burnt to create energy.
Rising floodwaters bring debris, hazardous waste and gas leaks, and force snakes or other potentially dangerous animals from their habitats and into residential areas.
Dr Joseph Adelegan from Nigeria has seen poverty first hand in Africa where he worked closely with villagers to convert slaughterhouse waste to gas they use for cooking.
The provision could even affect voluntary programs to reduce energy waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
Chris Wick, from the Environment Agency, said landfill sites generated gas when waste broke down but 2012 had been exceptionally wet and it was believed heavy rain had increased the gas produced.
Another technology it is looking at: a small gasifier that will heat woody waste to create natural gas.
In some markets, some of the time, biomass, geothermal, landfill gas and waste-to-energy can compete on price with carbon-based fuels.
"To have 100 billion cars on the planet that aren't being used is a total waste of materials, gas, petrol, metals, " Frigstad explained.
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.
Thanks to the solar heater, a shower is a daily possibility, and the biogas digester -- which converts human and pig waste to a clean gas that can be pressurized -- has enabled cooking and lighting.
As well as animal welfare concerns over rearing large numbers of farm animals in close proximity, the water use, farmland for animal feed, waste and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production make it one of the most significant environmental problems in the world today.
Governments hope it might help to trim both greenhouse-gas emissions and waste-management costs.
Even when heedlessly buried, waste can still produce precious gas and electricity.
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The answer that B9 is proposing is a coastal cargo ship that combines massive carbon-fibre DynaRig sails - such as those used on the superyacht, the Maltese Falcon - with an engine that runs on bio-gas made from food waste using a process called anaerobic digestion.
Competition there between home brewers and waste collectors for grease is fierce, and some fear as gas prices continue to rise, the scramble for the nation's kitchen waste will only intensify.
United Utilities is converting a by-product of waste water at its Blackburn plant into gas.
Too much oxygen and the toxic ammonia in waste won't convert to nitrogen gas, which bubbles out.
The EPA's initial report concluded that there was a link with the waste-water produced by drilling for gas.
"The greenhouse gas emissions associated with transporting this waste is not insignificant, " Mulvaney said.
Originally they were derived from coal-tar, the black viscous waste product left over from distilling coal for gas.
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If firms are passing up easy opportunities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by re-using waste, then governments have set the price of emissions too low.
Waste-to-energy and landfill-gas projects are likely to benefit most from green pricing, at least at first, because their costs are already close to those of conventional power producers.
Among those that do, the definition varies: 55% define sustainability as the management of issues related to the environment (for example, greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, green-product development, and water conservation).
The brothers power their farm and cheese factory using an anaerobic digestion system, which turns organic waste into fuel, and cuts down on greenhouse gas emissions.
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