1. Containers are ment to be moved. Huge amounts of energy are wasted because the raw material used in the production has to be moved considerable distances to stationary facilities. The use of a truck-, boat- or whatever-towed container could easily reach remote locations with a surplus of whatever suitable-for-energy-production bio-materials. Agri-Therm out of Ontario, Canada is manufacturing a pyro-plant-on-wheels but this is more of a trailer type.
2. Mass production. As quantities of these small units go up, the prize should come down. This would mean less initial investments for smaller enterprizes or private customers and the transition towards greener energy and heat would be easier (and perhaps faster)
3. Construction, testing and improvement could be done in one place, like for instance here in Finland and the end product could be shipped pre-tested to the end user.
4. Catastrophy first aid. I have seen back up generators inside governmental buildings here in Finland that have easily been fitted inside containers. A caravan of aid-trucks could easily incorporate a generator-container that would work on bio-waste and even plastic bags (check this article about pyrolysis of plastics by Kaminsky et al. 2000)
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