Turning our garbage into electricity

It's like the Flux Capacitor powered by Mr. Fusion!

Published on September 10, 2006 By Draginol In Pure Technology

They've built a plant that uses plasma arcs to take sewage and garbage and convert it into energy with the resulting steam being used by another plant and the remaining hardened sludge used for roads.

Gotta love that.

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Comments

jennifer1

on Sep 10, 2006

quote - He said that if large plasma facilities were put to use nationwide to vaporize trash, they could theoretically generate electricity equivalent to about 25 nuclear power plants.
- end quote

It all sounds really good, but are there any dangers associated with it? Nuclear power is dangerous or rather can be if things go wrong. What about this "plasma" solution? What was the figure - 25 times hotter than the sun? Sounds a bit dicey?

If it can be done and done safely - bravo, it is about time waste is obliterated.

foreverserenity

on Sep 10, 2006

I think this would be great if it can be done and done safely.

Ryan Vincent

on Sep 12, 2006

Agreed.

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