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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."
Goddamn do I hate you hippies. You have everything but an answer. You hate nuclear power, you hate fossil fuels, you hate incinerators. Come up with a practical way to provide the massive power requirements of our country without dumping a bunch of CO2 or producing nuclear waste and you'll have people choping at the bit to build it. Sitting here and bitching about every fucking effort made to imrpove the process a little bit isn't helping anyone.
Oh, and next time, try finding a source that isn't some highly biased political group.
So, besides your own ass, could you tell us where you are pulling all these random indisputable facts about a technology which hasn't even been built yet from? super.
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
>> they are going to discover that they need to spend millions every year on scrubbers just to keep themselves below the EPA limits on the pollution, heavy metals and other nasty stuff from getting into the air.
Bush thinks every environmental scientist and leader in the world are wrong. God has told him pollution != Global Warming. So he will give them a waiver to vent it striaght out and save megabucks on their profit line.