The Right Solution for People and the Environment

Job creation – Letting Steel Workers Get Back to Work
Thousands of iron and steel workers have lost their jobs, and entire towns have become ghost towns, as blast furnaces have been shut down or taken apart and shipped to China. These experienced workers are already highly trained in operating blast furnaces, the technology that forms the basis of Sierra Energy’s FASTOX™ process. Converting existing blast furnaces to green-energy gasifiers will allow these workers to get back to work producing clean energy from recycling, benefiting themselves, their communities, and our nation.

No More Landfills or Hazardous wastes
The United States produces 240 million tons of municipal solid waste each year. No one has found a way to cleanly and profitably recycle 100% of this waste. Until now.

FASTOX™ does not replace recycling—it compliments existing recycling efforts and takes them much farther. Any metal and glass that cannot be sorted out of the waste stream is recovered in usable molten forms, diverting those materials from landfills and reducing our society’s need to replace those materials with virgin materials. All organic materials in the waste stream, which would otherwise have been buried in a landfill, volatize and turn into a syngas that offsets our world’s need for new fossil fuels.

Ending our need for landfills also ends the emission of methane, CO2 and other harmful gasses from those landfills. Since methane is 22 times more harmful to the environment than CO2, this is a significant benefit. The increased material recovery enabled by FASTOX™ also reduces the need for the production of virgin materials, allowing more efficient and more complete recycling—100% recycling.

Clean Energy
The energy produced by gasifying the waste produced by the United States alone would provide over 6 quadrillion BTUs of energy—that’s 6% of our nation’s total demand for energy—offsetting 50 billion gallons of fossil fuels annually, more oil than the United States imports from Venezuela each year.

If FASTOX™ was used to gasify biomass as well as municipal solid waste, it could produce more than 20% of the energy our nation needs each year, energy worth almost a quarter trillion dollars.