An interesting development comes from the company Greenhouse Energy and is called Microfueller (EFuel100).  It is a private filling station that allows to turn organic waste into ethanol fuel. Now – it is not that you can throw your old salad into the machine and the next day you drive 100 kilometres from that. The company itself will provide the feedstock for you. Greenhouse made contracts with companies that need to get rid of e. g. beverages that have date-expired and otherwise have to pay a high price to have those products hauled away for disposal.

Interesting and ground-breaking idea. Hopefully something like this does not lead to an increasing overproduction of things. It’s always a chain of systems that interacts with each. In the beginning it also seemed that using corn to produce fuel would be the most sustainable solution. Then it happened that the prices for corn rose worldwide – making it too expensive for people in poorer countries that are depending on it as a food.

However decentralized energy production is the most promising idea for the future. For example, the German bio-energy supplier Lichtblick is planning to install 100.000 gas power stations (“ZuhauseKraftwerk”) in private homes that supply heat for the building itself and energy for the public net. This huge swarm system with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts is equivalent to the power of two nuclear power plants.

More about the “Microfueller” project in an article published in The Economist. More about the Lichtblick idea soon to come here on ROGER LiVE – subscribe to my newsletter to stay up to date.