Environmental pressures to reduce greenhouse gases such as CO2 and pollutants such as NOx and SOx have never been higher.
Energy demand is outpacing traditional supply throughout the world. Brownouts and Blackouts are taking place in the US, Great Britain, Western Europe, China and many other locations throughout the world. For many years, some of the rising demand was offset by step changes in energy production efficiency. Since 1995, these advances have slowed dramatically and the efficiency step changes have grown smaller. This means that nations are beginning to feel the full weight of increased energy demand.
Refineries with abundant petcoke and limited hydrogen are common throughout the world, especially with the increase in sour crudes.
Renewable energy sources such as wind, wave, solar and nuclear are either cost prohibitive and/or do not have the capacity or scale to meet the growing demand. While we support the afore mentioned renewable energy sources we believe that gasification is key to meeting the worlds growing energy demands in an environmentally friendly way.
