Startech Environmental
Corp.http://www.startech.netSt
artech is the only publicly
traded waste-to-energy plasma
arc technology company in the
world. They presently have
three 5 ton/day installations
in operation, with a number of
other plants in various stages
of implementation. A 200
ton/day plant being built by
Startech in
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Startech Environmental
Corp.http://www.startech.netSt
artech is the only publicly
traded waste-to-energy plasma
arc technology company in the
world. They presently have
three 5 ton/day installations
in operation, with a number of
other plants in various stages
of implementation. A 200
ton/day plant being built by
Startech in Panama will be the
largest such plant in the
world, and will convert
ordinary garbage into hydrogen
that can be used in fuel cells
to generate electricity or
directly as a fuel for
combustion. The Panama plant
is expected to be operational
in 2008. 'Waste is not
garbage, but a commercially
valuable, renewable resource.'
(StarTech Promotional Video.)
What is Plasma? Plasma is
simply a gas (air) that the
Converter ionizes so it
becomes an effective
electrical conductor and
produces a lightning-like arc
of electricity that is the
source of the intense energy
transferred to the waste
material as radiant energy.
The arc in the plasma plume
within the vessel can be as
high as 30,000 degrees
Fahrenheit ... three times
hotter than the surface of the
Sun. When waste materials are
subjected to the intensity of
the energy transfer within the
vessel, the excitation of the
wastes' molecular bonds is so
great that the waste
materials' molecules break
apart into their elemental
components (atoms). It is the
absorption of this energy by
the waste material that forces
the waste destruction and
elemental dissociation.The
Plasma Converter is computer
controlled, easy to use and
operates at normal atmospheric
pressure, very safely and
quietly.

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