“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
That’s a prominent sentiment from the late Steve Jobs, widely acknowledged to be one of the most influential pioneers of the 21st century. But is it also essentially what Air Products did in announcing its exit from the energy-from-waste (EfW) business three weeks ago?
Until very recently, the company’s Tees Valley facilities (TV1 and TV2) were held aloft as two of the most innovative renewable energy projects in the world, and the first of their kind in the UK. Both facilities were based upon state-of-the-art advanced plasma gasification technology, an innovative, carbon-lean process that uses very high temperatures to efficiently convert waste to syngas.
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