The Mr. Fusion Era is about aloft us! While our debris can't ability our time-travelling DeLoreans just yet, the Marine Corps' advanced operating bases—in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan—could anon be powered by the debris generated by their soldiers.
The system, dubbed the Micro Auto Gasification Arrangement (MAGS), was developed by by Terragon Environmental Technologies Inc in affiliation with the Office of Naval Research and uses a controlled pyrolysis action that feeds off of any amoebic ammunition source—paper, cardboard, wood, plastic, chemicals, food, cloth; oils and grease; biological material; beastly waste; agronomical waste; and sludge.
Pyrolysis occurs if amoebic compounds abide anaerobic thermochemical decomposition—basically "burning" after the attendance of oxygen—inside a sealed, 1300 amount F (750 degrees C) animate drum. These temperatures are acceptable to catechumen ammunition into a aerial mix of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane as able-bodied as an ash-like balance alleged char.
This all occurs after affecting asleep decay like bottle or metal—in fact, they're in fact antibacterial by the action and can be anon recycled or reused. And, because the arrangement doesn't absorb in fact combusting the fuel, both greenhouse gas emissions and smoke (which can abandon a FOB's location) are kept to a minimum.
The MAGS arrangement was originally developed for use aboard ships and is able of abbreviation a 50-gallon debris bag abounding with 100 pounds of debris down to 5 pounds of solid waste—a abridgement of 95 percent—in just two hours. The syngas produced can itself be reused as a ammunition antecedent to accumulate the MAGS arrangement running, the burn can be disposed of in a landfill and any balance calefaction from the action can be absent appear abating barracks.
The Fleet hopes to aftermath as abundant as bisected of its shore-based activity with another activity systems like MAGS by 2020. A ancestor assemblage is currently getting activated by U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC) in Hawaii and has, so far, been met with activity by soldiers in the field. [ONR - Tree Hugger - Popular Science - Gasification Wiki]
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