Vaporizing Garbage to Create Electricity

CaroKann writes "Geoplasma is planning to build a power plant in St. Lucie County, Florida that will generate electricity by vaporizing landfill trash and sewage treatment plant sludge with plasma arcs. It will be the first plant of its kind in the USA and the largest in the world. The power plant is expected to destroy 3000 tons of garbage, generating about 120 megawatts of electricity per day. The plant will also supply steam to a nearby Tropicana juice plant. The landfill is expected to be depleted in about 18 years. In addition, up to 600 tons of melted, hardened sludge will be produced each day and will be sold for road construction."

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Smells like teen spirit

[rbf2000]

Isn't there some sort of pollution that is created by vaporizing the trash? I can't imagine the process would be free of emissions. All I know is that I wouldn't want to live downwind of this place.

Re:Indeed

[UbuntuDupe]

Since when was Michigan anti-trash? It rose based on trash industry (cars), corrupted by trash unions, so they turned into trash factories that sold trash cars, and when the whole thing (inevitably) went down hill, their whole cities got trashed, and now downtown Detroit and Flint are just filled with a bunch of trash people, and trash directors make trash movies (Roger and Me) about it. I mean, I respect their anti-trash position, but quite frankly, this is a textbook case of "too little, too late".