The main reason we engaged in this immersive process was because we were trying to modify a gasifier cookstove: a new cleaner burning technology primarily built for African countries.
While recently European countries like Denmark have taken advantage of improved waste burning technology to reduce pollution while generating heat and electricity from the combustion of waste, the U.S.'s 87 waste-to-energy incinerators are all more than 15 years old and do not match up in either efficiency or safety.
By the turn of the millennium, CD burning technology had become fairly ubiquitous and hard disk recording was becoming more affordable and portable.
Basically, the performance gains from moving to the latest and greatest burning technology are negligible considering the pace of innovation in competing technologies: mass and temporary storage, web storage, digital distribution.
On the Senate side, an effort to get the benefits of the renewable designation for advanced coal-burning technologies failed, however.
Emphasis is placed on the potential problems that occur when biomass-burning technologies are used for energy crops, in order to avoid catastrophic failures.
For example, we can help the poorest of the poor use cleaner-burning technologies such as clean cookstoves and solar lamps in their homes.
The new regulations will require shifts to cleaner-burning technologies and fuels, which will cut down on the amount of dangerous co-emitted pollutants like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter streaming out of smokestacks.
Potential health risks exist from household burning of solid fuels in wealthier countries, particularly in poor areas where households may lack access to clean-burning technologies.
As 40% of the world's population (2.8 billion people) continue to cook on inefficient traditional cookstoves, there is considerable potential for clean-burning technologies to make a large global impact.
