Use trash for energy?

Question

I've read about an incenerator that burns trash to use for energy instead of coal and the smoke is filtered to a fine ash that uses a butt load less of space for the land fills. that makes perfect sense to me...why hasn't this been considered as a way of saving land space and less use of coal for energy?

Answer 1

I know I read in PopSci or PopMech about a landfill that was drilled like a natural gas well to get methane from the decomposing matter.

http://www.kellettswell.com/methane%20re...

Answer 2

because it costs too much than the ordinary way

Answer 3

The best thing to burn to save the earth and produce heat and hot air is Al Gore"s book.

Answer 4

i have been thinking about the same thing, and have been planning to do a school research project on it.

Answer 5

Doing that will cause more global warming. MY GOD do you want us all to die.

NO electric. no how. It causes warming.

So enjoy the little charge you have in your I pod. because that too will not work.

Answer 6

We're starting to do this in Toronto, Ontario.

But not until we ran out of land-fill & truck garbage to Michigan.

We've built a pelletizing plant to compress garbage.

They're going to burn it in cement plants & for green-houses.

Nobody wants to build an incinerator specifically for it.

Answer 7

It was started but the environmentalist would not permit it to happen...

Answer 8

Yes, it could be, if there have some item in trash, it can be converted to energy.  Do you remember that see at near end of movie "Back to the Future I"?

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Answer 9

It polutes the air big time?

Answer 10

The plants still need alot of natural gas, and release many toxins to the air.  At this moment i'm sitting about a block and a half from the Essex county, NJ incinerator, and the air quality in this neighborhood is terrible.