Already, CTA Architects Engineers has begun preliminary planning for the city's hospitals, Montana State University and a planned urban development in the remote reaches of the state. Market studies are being conducted for the plausibility of using fuel cells to provide energy for 500 Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative members. Another project is aimed at demonstrating that medical wastes from a Billings hospital could produce hydrogen-rich syngas. That gas could provide the power to run fuel cells that could provide electricity, power and heating. Fuel cells can power items as small as cellular telephones and as large as remote Montana communities.
Garbage can fuel the technology.
The process is much cleaner than our current coal-fired plants. DaimlerChrysler has pledged to have commercial fuel-cell vehicles available by 2004. Fuel-cell buses are running in Canada and on the streets of Chicago. Ford Motor Co. has produced a workable vehicle in a partnership with Washington. The industrial revolution has fallen to the knowledge age.