Waste-to-Energy

madboggar

On a recent web search i came across an interesting site - it was all about waste to energy -

"World leader in atmospheric fluidized bed combustion technology with more than 81 installations world wide, and over 5 million hours of operating experience. EPI has completed energy systems operating on a wider variety of fuels than any any other fluid bed supplier in the world.
Waste input: agriculture, wood, paper, livestock, fossil fuels, RDF (refuse), industrial, sewage.
Output: electricity, steam/hot water, thermal fluids, hot gas for dryer.

My problem is this why would somebody not just go and set up a large plant like this at an old landfill and burn the crap out of all this rubbish and sell the energy that came out of it to the ESB. Isn't this not what we are all looking for a large plant send all the rubbish from all over ireland and burn the crap into it. Lot less landfills, Lot less Rubbish Cleaner Energy, Get rid of Moneypoint

Everyone is happy

Well

Any ideas

Capt'n Midnight

I still prefer the technology that uses alkali in a presure cooker, the conditions are harsh enough to destroy dioxins etc. and you don't need to dry out the stuff beforehand and most of the combustables get converted to gas or oil rather than being wasted as heat.

At present we are exporting up to 80% of "recycled" material, in most cases to places like china where they don't have to follow out enviromental laws. (now you know why they invaded Tibet - large dumping site and all the rivers flow into the desert so you don't pollute the sea. )