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Record W3145365755 · doi:10.1021/cen-09701-buscon6

Waste-to-fuel plants move ahead in the US

2019· article· en· W3145365755 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Alex Tullo

Bibliographic record

VenueC&EN Global Enterprise · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicRecycling and Waste Management Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWaste managementEnvironmental scienceBusinessEngineering

Abstract

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Waste-to-fuel start-ups Fulcrum Bioenergy and Enerkem may soon have new plants in the US. Fulcrum has selected Gary, Indiana, as the location for a plant that will process 640,000 metric tons of Chicago-area trash into 125 million L of fuel per year. The company makes the fuels by treating the garbage in a gasification and Fischer-Tropsch process. Fulcrum says its fuel has a fifth of the global warming footprint of conventional fuels. The company plans to begin construction in 2020 and complete the plant within two years. It’s also building a waste-to-fuels plant, expected to be the country’s first, in Nevada. Separately, Enerkem’s project in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area got a major lift when the Metropolitan Council agreed to provide reclaimed wastewater to a proposed facility. That plant, which also will use a gasification process, could start up in 2021. Enerkem operates a facility in Edmonton, Alberta, and is developing

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.039
Threshold uncertainty score0.121

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0360.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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