St. Lucie County in Florida announced its partnership with Geoplasma to develop the United States’ first plasma gasification plant. Original plans called for the plant to use super-hot 10,000 degree fahrenheit plasma to effectively vaporize 3,000 tons of trash each day, which in turn would spin turbines to generate 60MW of electricity – enough to power 50,000 homes! More recently Geoplasma indicated it may scale back the the first phase of the project to just 200 tons per day to get full support of community before expansion that would divert all waste from the County’s landfills.