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.

Gyres

[Anonymous Coward]

The summary must be joking about the ocean gyres. Anyone who has ever read anything about them knows how incredibly diffuse they are (tiny particles for the most part) and how difficult recovery and transport operations would be.

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.

But But

[Idiomatick]

Waste to Power Generators produce heavy polution. Even if they do create 5000mwh it is hardly ever worth building. Better to use a few city ordinances to keep waste managed. And then build a nuclear power plant, fucking 16,000mwh for only 40grand hell yes.

Re:But But

[Kral_Blbec]

And technology never improves efficiency or performance from older methodologies...

Re:Show some sensitivity to this poor person!!!!!

[vegiVamp]

> Turrets Syndrome

What, he speed-fires crazy at anyone within range but can easily be taken out if you approach from behind ?