Wood gas, or wood gasification, is a decades–old renewable energy technology that converts chunks of firewood, wood chips or other cellulosic biomass to charcoal, volatile and combustible gases, and ...

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 ...

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 ...