Do you think it's possible? It sounded incredible to me. I remember, in the movie Back To The Future, the unit that powered Doc Brown's cool DeLorean car/time machine. It was called Mr. Fusion and was powered by organic junk.

Well hello McFly...a guy named Jim Mason is building gasification machines he calls the Power Pallet that turns garbage into power.

The Power Pallet converts biomass (specifically nutshells, wood chips, corncobs) to hydrogen-rich gas which powers a four cylinder engine that generates electricity. It puts out 12-20 kilowats of juice. He's not going to be able to go back in time but you can certainly charge your phone and run your refrigerator at the same time.

His company All Power Labs has sold a bunch of them. What's fascinating is that areas of the planet that do not have access to fossil fuels but do have biomass have bought them. Places like Haiti and Mali who look upon this machine as a miracle.

It's not a perfect machine and apparently very finicky but the idea is very alluring and has the potential to transform our energy production.