The Prophet of Garbage

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html ^ | March 2007 issue | Michael Behar

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Does this machine operate on one point twenty-one jigawatts? ;-)

[ASOC]

"multimillion-dollar system that took Longo almost two decades to design and build."

Not to be a wet blanket, but what kind of maintenance does thing take - how many hours of operation before rebuild/repair/PM? They may wind up building this thing adjacent to an existing landfill, just in case.

If the machine will eat a days worth of garbage, how much land will it take to house the magic machine and how much on site storage should it have?

I enjoy reading these Popular Mechanics level articles, but would like o see more of the detail on the care and feeding. Any additional links?

[Red Badger]

http://www.startech.net/plasma.html

http://www.geoplasma.com/index.html

http://www.recoveredenergy.com/

http://www.pyrogenesis.com/

http://www.enviroarc.com/

http://www.plascoenergygroup.com/

[nutmeg]

Connecticut ping!

HOW IT WORKS Startech's trash converter uses superheated plasma to reduce garbage to its molecuar components.

It sounds as if someone just dropped a tricycle into a meat grinder. I’m sitting inside a narrow conference room at a research facility in Bristol, Connecticut, chatting with Joseph Longo, the founder and CEO of Startech Environmental Corporation...

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

[Uncledave]

Makes sense -- Bristol invented garbage!

[Andonius_99]

So it works on the moonbat principle - put a whole lotta garbage into the head end, get some sort of expulsion out the back end, huh?

[cogitator]

Beat me to it. Exactly my thought.

[nutmeg]

So it works on the moonbat principle - put a whole lotta garbage into the head end, get some sort of expulsion out the back end, huh?

LOL! ;-D

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Scale this puppy up!

We need to get dozens of these converters running and start uncovering previously closed landfills.

That would be pure energy profit and the reclamation of currently "dead" land.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Fred Nerks]

The Prophet of Garbage

darn it, that headline tricked me, I thought here we go, finally, here's the truth about how the koranimals wrote their book.

[Balding_Eagle]

No way this is going to work. This is an energy loser.

Has anyone stopped to figure out how much energy goes into just PRODUCING garbage?

[SunkenCiv]

The garbage will be produced regardless, and will be hauled to disposal regardless, so, no, it's not an energy loser.

[Red Badger]

This will recover the energy used (at least partially) to produce the garbage, which is now being "lost" to landfills. It will still be transported, just the same, but can be returned to the "pool" of energy available for use. All energy production is an "energy loser" in some sense, else you'd have a perpetual motion scheme......

[Balding_Eagle]

That was sarcasm, directed at the ethonal folks.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, sorry. :') Look, you can't be subtle with me. You have to use something like this:

[SunkenCiv]

Hey wait a minute... are you suggesting that perpetual motion doesn't work?!? What's the meaning of this?!?!