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.

Comments

Make like a Tree and Leave

[Tablizer]

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.

Re:Make like a Tree and Leave

[cheesybagel]

Sounds like a great way to impoverish the soil even further. The trash burning I can sort of understand because a lot of these things do not degrade as easily and they take up a lot of volume. Plus a concrete and asphalt city could care less about soil conditions.

Re:Government in action again

[greggle]

It is not as cut-and-dried as TFA (I prefer to call it press-release journalism) claims.

From the Tri-City Herald: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/11/21/1260850/pasco-biomass-company-plans-to.html

There are plenty of so-called businessmen out there with grandiose plans of converting biomass to energy without any pollution. Unfortunately, this sounds like one of them.