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Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy

Posted by samzenpus on from the Mr.-Fusion dept.

Jason Sahler writes "Recently St. Lucie County in Florida announced that it has teamed up with Geoplasma to develop the United States' first plasma gasification plant. The plant will use super-hot 10,000 degree Fahrenheit plasma to effectively vaporize 1,500 tons of trash each day, which in turn spins turbines to generate 60MW of electricity — enough to power 50,000 homes!"

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  1. Re:Slow down... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Me failed English...
    FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...

    Don't tell me, let me guess - you're the guy who wrote

    When you are finished, type the following to compile and install your kernel if you are using FreeBSD prior FreeBSD 4.0 and don't want to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.0 or higher with this step, or if you are using a release-version of FreeBSD and your /usr/src/ directory only contains the sys/ sub-directory.