Unique System
Using John N. Basic’s ideas, the BASIC® Energy Companies have created a modern combustion system that converts solid wastes, sludges, and liquid wastes to usable energy, while at the same time meeting or surpassing all USA and international clean-air standards. We use the term “BASIC® Technology” to refer to the 32 years of research and development it took to create Mr. Basic’s modern, patented combustion system. It also refers to the successful installation of more than 125 of BASIC®’s systems in different parts of the world, where the systems have burned the entire calorific spectrum of wastes in a single patented technological system. BASIC®’s units have successfully burned, in an environmentally clean manner, wet municipal wastes, medical infectious wastes, whole tires, dried sewage sludges, agricultural wastes, plastic, wood, and cardboard.

Nanhai (China) waste-to-energy project

Waste to Energy
We have obtained useful energy from these waste fuels in the form of drying flue gases for hardwood factories, forced hot water, steam for process heat, and superheated steam for turbines to produce electrical power.

Environmental Codes
The BASIC® Energy Companies’ systems are operating in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, England, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia. These plants meet all environmental emission codes in the world on a continuous basis.

Patents and Licensing
We hold BASIC® Technology patents in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, South Africa, Great Britain, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway,k Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Monaco, Luxembourg, and Yugoslavia. New patent improvements have been applied for and shall be added in some 10 other countries.

In 1997, all of Mr. Basic’s patents and know-how were assigned to Worldwide Patent Licensing Company (WPLC), and Worldwide Service Company, LLC (WSC) was established to find companies to serve as licensees within exclusive territories in various countries throughout the world. WSC promotes the patents and know-how on behalf of these licensees, and Basic International trains all licensees under the guidance of Mr. Basic, who serves as a consultant to both WPLC and WSC.

There are eight different models available to licensee companies, ranging in size from 6 million BTU/hr to 100 million BTU/hr and in waste capacity from 100 tons/day to 250 tons/day or even larger.

Awards and Recognition

Over the years the BASIC® Energy Companies have earned awards for our pioneering efforts in waste-to-energy systems. Pollution Engineering gave its annual award to us in 1977, 1978, and 1979 for advancing the state of the art. Power, a long-time McGraw-Hill publication, gave us their award of the year in 1986 for the burning of whole tires and related industrial wastes at Firestone. This year, World Business Review did a 15-minute video interview between former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Mr. Basic on the BASIC® Technology and showed two of BASIC®’s plants in operation, one from Nanhei, China. That video was broadcast over 90 TV stations in the USA, as well as in Canada and Hong Kong. It was also featured on United Airlines flights between the USA and Asia for one month thereafter. [To watch this video now, click here.]

Many other trade magazines have done feature stories on BASIC® Technology, among them Public Works and American City and Country (on burning sewage pellets as fuel), Solid Waste Technologies (on a waste-to-energy plant in Wainwright, Alberta, Canada), Modern Power Systems (on a furniture plant in Michigan burning industrial waste), Fortune (on a plant burning whole tires and tire parts in Wolverhampton, England), World Directory of Renewable Energy (a British publication, feature article), and local newspaper stories from such diverse cities as Marco Island, Florida and Shenzhen, China.

How to Participate in the BASIC® Technology Program
If your corporate or governmental entity would be interested in obtaining a license to market and sell the BASIC® Technology within an exclusive territory, click here to read about Licensing.

If you are interested in having a system installed in your municipality or on your industrial site, click here to read about End Use.