Trash-To-Gas Power Plant Gets Greenlight

An anonymous reader writes "Beginning in a little more than a week, Green Power, Inc. of Pasco, Washington will be commencing the building of municipal-solid-waste-to-fuel plants for clients around the world, with $2 billion in contracts; now that an EPA ruling has exonerated GPI from an unnecessary shut-down order by the Washington Ecology Department last year. This fuel would be of higher quality and cheaper than fuel derived from crude oil — and it comes from local feedstock, while turning waste into energy. Now your laptop can turn into a quart of diesel fuel to power your trip to the dump. And the ocean gyres of trash the size of Texas can power Texas. This is an update on a Slashdot story from nine months ago.

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Re:Make like a Tree and Leave

[noidentity]

During early winter our yard has an almost 6-inch layer of leaves. If a service would scoop them up and take them away for free, they could use them for fuel. It would benefit 3 parties: us (leaf removal), the leaf processing company, and The Planet.

Even simpler: set them on fire. As a bonus, you get your house heated.

Re:Make like a Tree and Leave

[ArsonSmith]

Make like a tree, and get out of here!!

Will this mean I can power my time machine with banana peals?

Re:Make like a Tree and Leave

[pushing-robot]

Banana peals? How do you ring a banana?

Oh.

Re:Most likely, yes

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes but it will probably clog the gas line filter.

Re:Waste

[Yvan256]

They liquify it, then they drink it and get wasted.