Trash-To-Gas Power Plant Gets Greenlight 113
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.
Can't resist... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Make like a Tree and Leave (Score:2, Funny)
Even simpler: set them on fire. As a bonus, you get your house heated.
Re:Make like a Tree and Leave (Score:4, Funny)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
Banana peals? How do you ring a banana?
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Re:Most likely, yes (Score:3, Funny)
Yes but it will probably clog the gas line filter.
Re:Waste (Score:3, Funny)
They liquify it, then they drink it and get wasted.