Crop residue & wildfire fuel
Stop burning the fuel. Turn straw and scrub into a commodity.
Tested on straw with Tata Power
An earlier-generation system tested with Tata Power at the Rohini grid station, New Delhi. The X-150 was later developed from a reactor designed for Tata Power to turn straw into power.
Every season, the fuel goes up in smoke
Across Asia, farmers burn what is left after the harvest because it is the cheapest way to clear the field. In Europe, dry scrub and undergrowth turn summers into fire seasons. Both are biomass: energy that is burned for nothing, and makes people sick.
farm fires counted by satellite in northern India in the 2025 season, down from 56,600 in 2022. Progress, but the straw is still there.
of Delhi's fine-particle pollution on peak days comes from farm fires in Punjab–Haryana or local sources in Delhi.
the risk of acute respiratory infection for people in districts with intense crop burning; children under five are hit hardest.
of crop residue potentially burned in the open in Thailand in just three months of 2024.
of 10,000 surveyed rice farmers in Vietnam's Mekong Delta burned their straw; the delta produces over 24 Mt a year.
premature deaths linked to the 2015 Southeast Asian haze across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Singapore closed all its schools.
burned in the EU in 2025, a record. Germany and Spain set all-time records.
Make it worth more than a match
Straw is baled after the harvest; scrub and undergrowth are cleared from forest edges and firebreaks.
Residue is shredded and pressed into pellets at the field edge, dried with the unit's own waste heat where possible.
The X-150 gasifies the pellets into clean fuel gas. Straw is one of the fuels the reactor was built for.
Power and heat for the village, the farm or the grid, or cooling for the harvest.
Clean biochar goes back to the fields.
A field fire is energy with nowhere to go. Give it a buyer, and the burning stops.
What the region gets
Rice belts and fire edges
Rice and wheat belts in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh · sugarcane, maize and rice regions in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia · fire-prone forest edges, heaths and firebreaks in Germany, Spain and the Mediterranean.
