Court smacks down gasification plant deal

The Court of Appeals of Indiana voided an Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission action that critics say could have added billions of dollars to natural gas customers' bills across the state over the next 30 years.

Gas plan's money flow is complex

Gasification process has existed for 200 years

As a response to a recent "consultant article" regarding gasification, I would like to give the following response:

Consultant: Trash-to-ethanol tech could be high-risk venture

A national garbage processing and waste-to-energy consultant said Lake County made the right move removing taxpayer ownership from a trash-to-ethanol plan predicated on commercially unproven technology.

Graphic - The trash-to-ethanol process

Earl H. Powers says he can take all the garbage in Lake County and make it mostly disappear. Under his plan, some of it will be recycled and the rest will be turned into ethanol, but how is this possible? The technology he intends to use in his Schneider plant was developed by scientists at …