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Jim Taylor's Impact Speech |
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| Biomass becomes 25% CO2% 50% CH4 released during active life & afterward Here’s a picture of one of the largest landfills in New York State. It’s a well-run landfill, but during the years you are filling up and then closing a cell, a lot of methane, sulphur and even some mercury is going into the air. Even a good landfill is only going to catch 40% or less of the methane it generates and if you think about it, the landfill would never smell if there wasn’t gas coming out. That’s one reason Europe already has a requirement that waste being land filled has the biomass organic fraction reduced to under 5%. So we have pollution from local waste trucks and more from long-haul trucks |
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| So we have pollution from local waste trucks and more from long-haul trucks taking waste to landfills that turn the carbon in the waste into methane emissions. And you might already know that methane increases global warming 23 |
times more than carbon dioxide and that nitrogen oxides from all those trucks has 238 times the effect of carbon dioxide along with increasing smog and asthma. That’s what we have now, but I know we can do better. I plan to build a new company and make some money by doing it better. |
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