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Use Technology We Have To Solve Problems

If we use the technology we have, we could make 15
billion gallons of ethanol from the 250 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) we create each
and every year.

We could convert medical toxic wastes, industrial and industrial hazardous wastes, contaminated soils, oily sludges, plastics, used tires and batteries, construction waste and sewage to fuel or synthesis gas and an inert, unleachable glassy slag with nothing left to bury.  Instead of millions of tons per year, we are talking about billions of tons of these wastes.

Convert all wastes we make each and every year and we would not have to import foreign fuels.  This makes too much sense to do, I suppose.  Also
it wouldn't be politically practical as farmers would have to give up their subsidies.

The proven technology is plasma gasification, which approaches being a universal solvent by using temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun to convert materials to their basic elements, leaving nothing left to be buried.  Gee, wouldn't
that be grand for our environment.  No trash to biodegrade into methane, which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.  Also, we wouldn't have chemicals leaching from landfills, reaching out fingers of filth to contaminate our ground water.

The gas from plasma gasification can be used to make green electricity or ethanol.  If electricity
condensation of steam at a world-scale plant will produce 7,900,000 gallons of distilled water per day and from seawater.

Why don't we use what we have to solve our problems?  I suppose it's not politically profitable to do so.  Many special interests (read campaign contributors) would get hurt if the national administration and congress serve the public rather than special interests.On My presidential platform calls for clean air and no war. What about yours? posted 2 years, 9 months ago 23 Responses