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Throwing away an energy source

What if I told you that it was possible to provide enough energy to run an entire sub-division or industrial plant......with garbage?

Well...methane that comes from decomposing garbage to be exactly.....instead foreign oil.

Would you think I was crazy?

I'm not. It's already happening.

According to this article there were nearly 400 landfill gas collection projects in the U.S. The garbage that you throw out (which is nearly 4.5 pounds per person, per day) could become one of the better renewable resources of energy out there.

It smells a bit fishy, but I think it's pretty smart.

Everybody knows that methane is a greenhouse gas. Our landfills are pumping more and more of it into the atmosphere. Now, I don't believe in the whole global-warming causing disasters and whatnot....but if you can reduce greenhouse gas emissions AND provide a source of energy, you't hit on a grand idea.

Now, I'm not saying it's going to be a suitable replacement to oil and natural gas. And I know the big oil men don't want to hear that kind of nonsense...but the option is there.

I remember in "Back to the Future," Christopher Lloyd's character Doc Brown has a "Mr. Fusion" unit on the silver Delorean. Garbage-powered cars....hahaha. Shoot, with gas prices being what they are, I'd be all for it.

Posted by Jason Palmer at 2:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)