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Sharky
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Power Plant That Uses Garbage to Create Power

08/13/2009 4:08 AM

been thinking of a great sort of power plant that could if there was some use for it can use the stinky gas and rotten rubbish to create power . it could work there would be more then enough rubbish in a town or city to run one and anthor bonus is it will stop all the landfills filling up

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Re: Power Plant That Uses Garbage to Create Power

08/13/2009 4:53 AM

Such power plants do exist. Check out this short article about biomass for an introduction.
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Re: Power Plant That Uses Garbage to Create Power

08/14/2009 3:58 AM

There's one adjacent to the North Circular Road (A406) in Walthamstow. There are many others.

Chicken droppings are the next thing in microgeneration!

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Re: Power Plant That Uses Garbage to Create Power

08/14/2009 7:13 AM

check this out

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Re: Power Plant That Uses Garbage to Create Power

09/20/2009 4:57 AM

Too late, I actually worked for one in Portugal, Household Garbage is burn´t in a boiler to produce sream to drive turbines..... in some countries the hot water from the boiler is used to warm up nearby houses (Central heating).
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