Alternative Energy from Ewaste...with Profits

Here's a new way to look at alternative energy. What if you could take ewaste (think electronic junk) and instead of creating a toxic dump, convert it to clean energy with no toxic residue? To top it off, it would make unreal profits.

Well thank the US Govt. After $20M of R&D, they figured it out. I've been working with a group www.volcanopartners.com that is commercializing the technology. Here's a summary:

Overview:

Volcano Partners hold 2 awarded patents for the production of clean energy from E-waste. This is not incineration, and the EPA has approved the technology with immeasurable (6 digits) pollution. Most of all, it provides for 1 order of magnitude cost advantage over any other system and is the only one that produces non-toxic and useful byproducts: Ecomelt and
Electricity (in addition to profits).

Computer and other electronic equipment vendors are producing millions of tons of toxic Ewaste each year which has become a real economic and political problem. E waste is now banned from landfills and the recycling
industry, which already only handles a fraction of this stuff, cannot keep up. This has opened up a $1.5 billion market in the US alone for the company with the right solution.

They have a demonstration plant running in New Jersey that turns this toxic waste into:

1) Electrical Energy ( with no toxic air particulats) which can be sold
2) Ecomelt: Inert non leaching material (similar to crushed lava rock) used
for building materials
3) Profit: (Breakeven is $65/ton while disposal fees are $500+/ton)

E Waste is not only computers, motherboards, and monitors, but also printers, fax machines, copiers, cell phones, etc. and as of 2005 it will also include TV sets.