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Jim Taylor's Impact Speech |
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| Recycling + Biomass Energy vs. Trucking to Landfill
In the future we will have a plant like this one in every place we have 250,000 population base within a 30 mile radius. Inside the first big building, we receive mixed waste and isolate the household hazardous waste that still needs land filling, then we’ll pull out the recyclable glass, metals, plastic, paper and textiles, then we’ll prepare the 65% that’s biomass with some unrecyclable plastics for conversion into energy in the tall box which is the gasifier. |
Once we have the gas that comes from the gasifier, we can use the highest efficiency equipment to convert it to electricity and get heating and cooling from that power island. The emissions from the plant are low enough to actually be less than the emissions generated by trucking the same amount of waste hundreds of miles to a landfill that then creates even more emissions. There is a lot of talk about using hydrogen in fuel cells, but then you find out that the hydrogen will come from natural gas because it’s too expensive to make hydrogen with renewable power. |
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